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100 1 $aDershowitz, Alan M.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81139399
245 14 $aThe vanishing American Jew :$bin search of Jewish identity for the next century /$cAlan M. Dershowitz.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aBoston :$bLittle, Brown,$c[1997], ©1997.
300 $ax, 395 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [343]-373) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: The "Jewish Question" for the Twenty-first Century: Can We Survive Our Success? --$gPt. I.$tThe Problem Defined.$gCh. 1.$tAn America Without Jews --$gPt. II.$tWhy So Many Jews are Drifting Away.$gCh. 2.$tWill the End of Institutional Anti-Semitism Mean the End of the Jews?$gCh. 3.$tAnti-Semitism in the Twenty-first Century: Changing to Adapt to the New Realities.$gCh. 4.$tThe Dangers of the Christian Right - and Their Jewish Allies --$gPt. III.$tProposed Solutions - and Why They Will Not Be Enough to Preserve Jewish Life.$gCh. 5.$tGo to Shul!: The Religious Solution to the Jewish Question of the Twenty-first Century.$gCh. 6.$tMake Aliyah!: The Israeli Solution to the Jewish Question of the Twenty-first Century.$gCh. 7.$tBe a Mensch!: The Ethical Solution to the Jewish Question of the Twenty-first Century --$gPt. IV.$tA Workable Answer to the Jewish Question.$gCh. 8.$tFilling the Yiddisher Cup: The Competitive Solution to the Jewish Future.$tEpilogue: A Call to Action --
505 80 $gAppendix.$tThe $500 Beginning Jewish Home Library.
520 $aIn this urgent book, Alan M. Dershowitz shows why American Jews are in danger of disappearing - and what must be done now to create a renewed sense of Jewish identity for the next century.
520 8 $aIn previous times, the threats to Jewish survival were external - the virulent consequences of anti-Semitism. Now, however, in late-twentieth-century America, the danger has shifted. Jews today are more secure, more accepted, more assimilated, and more successful than ever before. They've dived into the melting pot - and they've achieved the American Dream. And that, according to Dershowitz, is precisely the problem.
520 8 $aMore than 50 percent of Jews will marry non-Jews, and their children will most often be raised as non-Jews. Which means, in the view of Dershowitz, that American Jews will vanish as a distinct cultural group sometime in the next century - unless they act now.
520 8 $aSpeaking to concerned Jews everywhere, Dershowitz calls for a new Jewish identity that focuses on the positive - the 3,500-year-old legacy of Jewish culture, values, and traditions. Dershowitz shows how this new Jewish identity can compete in America's open environment of opportunity and choice - and offers concrete proposals on how to instill it in the younger generation.
650 0 $aJews$zUnited States$xPolitics and government.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008122309
650 0 $aJudaism$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008106102
650 0 $aAntisemitism$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117598
651 0 $aUnited States$xEthnic relations.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140043
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