Author: American Society for Meliorating the Condition of the JewsPublisher:
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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Report of the American Society for Meliorating the Condition of the Jews
Author: American Society for Meliorating the Condition of the JewsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Report
Author: American Society for Meliorating the Condition of the JewsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The Grammar of Good Intentions
Author: Susan M. RyanPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501718568
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Susan M. Ryan explores antebellum Americans' preoccupation with the language and practice of benevolence. Drawing on a variety of cultural and literary texts, she traces how people working and writing within social reform movements—and their outspoken opponents—helped solidify racial and class ideologies that ultimately marginalized even the most "deserving" poor. "The links between race and the relations of benevolence occasioned much soul-searching among antebellum Americans," Ryan explains. "In a period of heated public debate over issues such as slavery, Indian removal, and non-Protestant immigration, the categories of blackness, Indianness, and a generic 'foreignness' came to signify, for many whites, need itself." Ryan puts familiar literary works such as Herman Melville's The Confidence-Man, Frederick Douglass's My Bondage and My Freedom, and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin back into dialogue with a broad range of print materials: the reports of charity societies, African American and Native American newspapers, juvenile fiction, travel writing, cartoons, sermons, and tract literature. In the process, she dispels the myth that authors usually classified as literary were responding to a simple and unquestioned cult of benevolence. Rather, she contends, they were participating in the complex and often rancorous debates occurring within the broader culture over how good intentions should be expressed and enacted.Ryan's inquiry into the antebellum culture of benevolence has implications for contemporary U.S. society, resonating especially with recent debates over welfare reform, the politics of compassionate conservatism, and representations of "welfare queens" and violent urban youth. As Ryan writes, "The conversations that this book reconstructs remind us of our ongoing participation in the national ritual of laying claim to good intentions."
Coming to Terms with America
Author: Jonathan D. SarnaPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0827615116
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
Culling the finest thinking of renowned historian Jonathan D. Sarna, Coming to Terms with America examines how Jews have long “straddled two civilizations,” endeavoring to be both Jewish and American at once, from the American Revolution to today.
Defending the Faith
Author: George L. BerlinPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791496481
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
America provided the Jews with a new kind of historical experience. Within a largely welcoming, legally equal society, a new and more positive Jewish perception of Christianity would seem to have been a natural development. However, traditionalists, such as Isaac Leeser, emphasized the differences between the two religions, assuming an outsider stance with regard to American culture. In contrast, Reformists identified the highest ideals of both Christianity and America with Judaism. They portrayed Jesus as a Jew who taught nothing contrasting Jewish belief. To the Reformers, Jews were the Americans par excellence. This book demonstrates that these Jewish writings on Christianity and Jesus are not a matter of interest so much for their theological content, but more importantly, for their exposition of the struggle within the Jewish community to define its relationship to American culture and society.
Annual Report of the American Bible Society ...
Author: American Bible SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
Together with a list of auxiliary and cooperating societies, their officers, and other data.
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Author: ![The Jew; being a defence of Judaism against all adversaries, and the attacks of Israel's advocate [publ. by the American society for meliorating the condition of the Jews], ed. [really written] by S.H. Jackson PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/fx4AAAAAQAAJ?fife=w80-h100)
Author: S H. Jackson