Twentieth Century Jews: Forging Identity in the Land of Promise and in the Promised Land by Penkower, Monty Noam

Twentieth Century Jews: Forging Identity in the Land of Promise and in the Promised Land (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781936235209)

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Twentieth Century Jews: Forging Identity in the Land of Promise and in the Promised Land by Penkower, Monty Noam

Twentieth Century Jews: Forging Identity in the Land of Promise and in the Promised Land

$109.00
Twentieth Century Jews: Forging Identity in the Land of Promise and in the Promised Land by Penkower, Monty Noam

Twentieth Century Jews: Forging Identity in the Land of Promise and in the Promised Land

$109.00
Format: Hardcover
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This extensively-researched collection of essays lucidly explores how members of the ever-beleaguered Jewish people grappled with their identities during the past century in the United States and in Eretz Israel, the new centers of Jewry's long historical experience. With the pivotal 1903 Kishinev pogrom setting the stage, the author proceeds to examine how the Land of Promise across the Atlantic exerted different influences on Abraham Selmanovitz, Felix Frankfurter, the founders of the American Council for Judaism, and Arthur Hays Sulzberger. Professor Penkower then shows how the prospect of nationalism in the biblical Promised Land engendered other tensions and transformations, ranging from the plight of Hayim Nahman Bialik, to rivalry within the Orthodox Jewish camp, to on-going strife between the political Left and Right over the nature of the emerging Jewish state.

Author: Monty Noam Penkower
ISBN-10: 193623520X
ISBN-13: 9781936235209
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2010
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.64lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.94d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2011
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2011 pg. 48
By Monty Noam Penkower
By Monty Noam Penkower
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Monty Noam Penkower is Professor Emeritus of Jewish History at the Machon Lander Graduate Center of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem. He was Victor J. Selmanowitz Professor of Modern Jewish History at Touro College in New York City, and also taught at Bard College, Rutgers University, and Stern College, and in the graduate history departments of New York University and Yeshiva University. His numerous publications include The Federal Writers' Project (1977); The Jews Were Expendable: Free World Diplomacy and the Holocaust (1983); The Emergence of Zionist Thought (1986); The Holocaust and Israel Reborn: From Catastrophe to Sovereignty (1994); and Decision on Palestine Deferred: America, Britain and Wartime Diplomacy, 1939-1945 (2002). The Jews Were Expendable received the B'nai B'rith A.D.L. Merit for Educational Distinction and, together with The Emergence of Zionist Thought, garnered the second Samuel Belkin Memorial Literary Award from Yeshiva University.

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