Download eBook Free: https://ouo.io/CogOE4L Speaking of Jews Rabbis, Intellectuals, and the Creation of an American Public Identity By: Lila Corwin Berman Publisher: University of California Press Print ISBN: 9780520256811, 0520256816 eText ISBN: 9780520943704, 0520943708 Edition: 1st Pages: 280 Copyright year: 2009 Format: PDF Available from $ 26.95 USD SKU 9780520943704 Lila Corwin Berman asks why, over the course of the twentieth century, American Jews became increasingly fascinated, even obsessed, with explaining themselves to their non-Jewish neighbors. What she discovers is that language itself became a crucial tool for Jewish group survival and integration into American life. Berman investigates a wide range of sources—radio and television broadcasts, bestselling books, sociological studies, debates about Jewish marriage and intermarriage, Jewish missionary work, and more—to reveal how rabbis, intellectuals, and others created a seemingly endless array of explanations about why Jews were indispensable to American life. Even as the content of these explanations developed and shifted over time, the very project of self-explanation would become a core element of Jewishness in the twentieth century. Additional ISBNs 9780520256804, 0520256808
