Daniel Greene

The Jewish Origins of Cultural Pluralism

The Menorah Association and American Diversity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In response to the idea that the American melting pot would erase all cultural differences, the Menorah Association advocated a pluralist America that would accommodate a thriving Jewish culture while bringing Jewishness into mainstream American life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 159mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 427g
• ISBN-13: 9780253223340
• ISBN-10: 0253223342
• Artikelnr.: 32730510

Autorenporträt

Daniel Greene is Director of the Dr. William M. Scholl Center for American History and Culture at the Newberry Library in Chicago and a former curator and historian at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: "Kultur Klux Klan or Cultural Pluralism"
1. The Harvard Menorah Society and the Menorah Idea
2. The Intercollegiate Menorah Association and the "Jewish Invasion" of
American Colleges
3. Cultural Pluralism and Its Critics
4. Jewish Studies in an American Setting
5. A Pluralist History and Culture
6. Pluralism in Fiction
Epilogue: "The Promise of the Menorah Idea"
Notes
Bibliography
Index