Quest for Inclusion
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Abba Hillel Silver
Acculturation
Activism
Adolf Hitler
Affirmative action
African Americans
African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954-68)
Aliyah
American Jewish Conference
American Jewish Congress
American Jewish Historical Society
American Jews
Americanization
Americans
Anti-Defamation League
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B'nai B'rith
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Citizenship of the United States
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Communism
Conservative Judaism
Democracy
Democratic ideals
Deportation
Discrimination
Employment
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Foreign policy
Homeland for the Jewish people
Ideology
Interfaith dialogue
Jewish culture
Jewish Federation
Jewish history
Jewish Labor Committee
Jewish leadership
Jewish refugees
Jewish right
Jews
Judaism
Left-wing politics
Legislation
Liberalism
Liberalism in the United States
Marshall Plan
Minority group
Modern liberalism in the United States
Nazi Germany
Nazi Party
Nazism
Persecution
Philanthropy
Political culture
Political strategy
Politician
Politics
Rabbinical Assembly
Racial equality
Racial segregation
Racism
Reform Judaism
Refugee
Rule of law
Synagogue Council of America
Totalitarianism
Trade union
Un-American
United States
Welfare
World War II
Zionism
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- ISBN 9780691005096
- Weight: 595g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 23 Jul 2000
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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For over sixty years, Jews have ranked as the most liberal white ethnic group in American politics, figuring prominently in social reform campaigns ranging from the New Deal to the civil rights movement. Today many continue to defy stereotypes that link voting patterns to wealth. What explains this political behavior? Historians have attributed it mainly to religious beliefs, but Marc Dollinger discovered that this explanation fails to account for the entire American Jewish political experience. In this, the first synthetic treatment of Jewish liberalism and U.S. public policy from the 1930s to the mid-1970s, Dollinger identifies the drive for a more tolerant, pluralistic, and egalitarian nation with Jewish desires for inclusion in the larger non-Jewish society. The politics of acculturation, the process by which Jews championed unpopular social causes to ease their adaptation to American life, established them as the guardians of liberal America. But, according to Dollinger, it also erected barriers to Jewish liberal success. Faced with a conflict between liberal politics and their own acculturation, Jews almost always chose the latter.
Few Jewish leaders, for example, condemned the wartime internment of Japanese Americans, and most southern Jews refused to join their northern co-religionists in public civil rights protests. When liberals advocated race-based affirmative action programs and busing to desegregate public schools, most Jews dissented. In chronicling the successes, limits, and failures of Jewish liberalism, Dollinger offers a nuanced yet wide-ranging political history, one intended for liberal activists, conservatives curious about the creation of neo-conservatism, and anyone interested in Jewish communal life.
Marc Dollinger is Associate Professor of U.S. History at Pasadena City College.
