A Time for Healing: American Jewry since World War II (The Jewish People in America) - Hardcover

Shapiro, Professor Edward S.

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9780801843471: A Time for Healing: American Jewry since World War II (The Jewish People in America)

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ISBN 10: 0801843472 ISBN 13: 9780801843471

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992

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Volume V: A Time for Healing.

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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This Book chronicles a time of rapid economic and social progress. Yet this phenomenal success, explains Edward 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.

About the Author:

Eli Faber is professor of history and Dean of Undergraduate Studies at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice of The City University of New York. Hasia Diner is professor of American studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. Gerald Sorin is chairman of the Department of History and Director of Jewish Studies at the State University of New York, New Paltz. Henry L. Feingold is professor of history at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Edward S. Shapiro is professor of history at Seton Hall University.

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