TY - BOOK
T1 - Survival through integration
T2 - American Reform Jewish universalism and the Holocaust
AU - Shiff, Ofer
N1 - Includes numerous references to Julian Morgenstern.
PY - 2004/10
Y1 - 2004/10
N2 - The book focuses on the most prominent exponents of the universalistic ideology of American Reform Judaism in the 1930s and 1940s. Those who attempted to maintain unquestioning fealty to the principles of universalistic Reform, even in view of the disheartening realities of the Holocaust, are the heroes of the plot that unfolds here. The way they struggled for their beliefs should be viewed as a point of departure for a more general discussion of the challenge posed by the Holocaust to the modern Jewish belief in the possibility and desirability of full cultural and social Jewish integration into non-Jewish society at large.
AB - The book focuses on the most prominent exponents of the universalistic ideology of American Reform Judaism in the 1930s and 1940s. Those who attempted to maintain unquestioning fealty to the principles of universalistic Reform, even in view of the disheartening realities of the Holocaust, are the heroes of the plot that unfolds here. The way they struggled for their beliefs should be viewed as a point of departure for a more general discussion of the challenge posed by the Holocaust to the modern Jewish belief in the possibility and desirability of full cultural and social Jewish integration into non-Jewish society at large.
KW - Morgenstern, Julian, 1881-1976
KW - Antisemitism
KW - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence
KW - Jews -- Cultural assimilation
KW - Reform Judaism -- United States -- Essence, genius, nature
KW - Zionism
U2 - 10.1163/9789047406426
DO - 10.1163/9789047406426
M3 - Book
SN - 9789004233300
SN - 9789004141094
T3 - Jewish identities in a changing world
BT - Survival through integration
PB - Brill
CY - Leiden
ER -