MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2008025974
003 DLC
005 20090831113739.0
008 080627s2009 caua b s001 0 eng
010 $a 2008025974
020 $a9780520256804 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a0520256808 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a9780520256811 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a0520256816 (pbk. : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn233283656
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043 $an-us---
050 00 $aE184.36.E84$bB47 2009
082 00 $a305.6/9609730904$222
100 1 $aBerman, Lila Corwin,$d1976-
245 10 $aSpeaking of Jews :$brabbis, intellectuals, and the creation of an American public identity /$cLila Corwin Berman.
260 $aBerkeley :$bUniversity of California Press,$cc2009.
300 $axii, 266 p. :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
490 1 $aThe S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 235-251) and index.
505 0 $aSpiritual missions after the Great War : the reform movement and the Jewish Chautauqua Society -- The ghetto and beyond : the rising authority of American Jewish social science in interwar America -- The sacred and sociological dilemma of Jewish intermarriage -- Serving the public good and serving God in 1940s America -- Constructing an ethnic America : Oscar Handlin, Nathan Glazer, and post-World War II social research -- What is a Jew? : missionaries, outreach, and the Cold War ethnic challenge -- A Jewish Marilyn Monroe and the Civil-Rights-era crisis in Jewish self-presentation -- Conclusion: speaking of Jews.
650 0 $aJews$zUnited States$xIdentity.
650 0 $aJews$zUnited States$xSocial conditions$y20th century.
650 0 $aJewish leadership$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aJudaism and the social sciences.
650 0 $aReligion and sociology$zUnited States.
651 0 $aUnited States$xEthnic relations.
830 0 $aS. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies.