Gil Ribak

Gentile New York

The Images of Non-Jews Among Jewish Immigrants

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Produktbeschreibung

The very question of “what do Jews think about the goyim” has fascinated Jews and Gentiles, anti-Semites and philo-Semites alike. MThis critical look at the origins of Jewish liberalism in America provides a more complicated and nuanced picture of the Americanization process. Gentile New York examines these newcomers’ evolving feelings toward non-Jews through four critical decades in the American Jewish experience. Gil Ribak considers how they perceived Gentiles in general as well as such different groups as “Yankees” (a common term in many Yiddish sources), Germans, Irish, Italians, Poles, and African Americans.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780813551647
• ISBN-10: 0813551641
• Artikelnr.: 33771656

Autorenporträt

GIL RIBAK is the Schusterman Postdoctoral Fellow at the Arizona Center for Judaic Studies, the University of Arizona. His articles have appeared in American Jewish History, Israel Studies Forum, War and Peace in Jewish Tradition, and Midstream, among other publications.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. “Never Before Have Gentiles Hated Jews So Much”: The Images of Non-Jews
in Eastern European Jewish Society in the Late Nineteenth Century
2. “Lovers of Man”: The Images of Americans among Eastern European Jews in
the Last Third of the Nineteenth Century
3. “In Goodness They Even Exceed the English”: The Idealization of
“Yankees” in the 1880s and 1890s
4. “The American Is Not Very Musical and Not So Sociable”: The Beginnings
of an Attitudinal Change in the Early 1900s
5. “You Could Almost Forget That He Is Not a Jew”: The Jewish Labor
Movement and Secularized Chosenness, 1909–1914
6. “The ‘Green’ Italian Pays the Same Good Taxes as the 14-Karat Yankee”:
The War in Europe and the Beginnings of Reorientation toward Certain
Minority Groups, 1914–1917
7. “What the American Can Do in His Anger”: World War I and the Red Scare,
1917–1920
Epilogue: Self-Image and Its Limitations
A Note on Methodology and Sources
Notes
Index