A time for healing : American Jewry since World War II / Edward S. Shapiro.
A Time for Healing chronicles a time of rapid economic and social progress. Yet this phenomenal success, explains Edward S. Shapiro, came at a cost. Shapiro takes seriously the potential threat to Jewish culture posed by assimilation and intermarriage--asking if the Jewish people, having already end...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[1992]
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| Series: | Jewish people in America ;
v. 5. |
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| Summary: | A Time for Healing chronicles a time of rapid economic and social progress. Yet this phenomenal success, explains Edward S. Shapiro, came at a cost. Shapiro takes seriously the potential threat to Jewish culture posed by assimilation and intermarriage--asking if the Jewish people, having already endured so much, will survive America's freedom and affluence as well. |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-292) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0801843472 9780801843471 0801851246 9780801851247 |