Author: American Society for Meliorating the Condition of the JewsPublisher:
ISBN:
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 : 40
Book Description
Coming to Terms with America
Author: Jonathan D. SarnaPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0827618794
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
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. In fifteen engaging essays, Jonathan D. Sarna investigates the many facets of the Jewish-American encounter—what Jews have borrowed from their surroundings, what they have resisted, what they have synthesized, and what they have subverted. Part I surveys how Jews first worked to reconcile Judaism with the country’s new democratic ethos and to reconcile their faith-based culture with local metropolitan cultures. Part II analyzes religio-cultural initiatives, many spearheaded by women, and the ongoing tensions between Jewish scholars (who pore over traditional Jewish sources) and activists (who are concerned with applying them). Part III appraises Jewish-Christian relations: “collisions” within the public square and over church-state separation. Originally written over the span of forty years, many of these essays are considered classics in the field, and several remain fixtures of American Jewish history syllabi. Others appeared in fairly obscure venues and will be discovered here anew. Together, these essays—newly updated for this volume—cull the finest thinking of one of American Jewry’s finest historians.
Catalogue of the Library of the Massachusetts Historical Society ...
Author: Massachusetts Historical Society. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 754
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."
Catalogue of the library of the Massachusetts historical society
Author: John Appleton (M.D.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382306697
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Uncivil Religion
Author: Robert Neelly BellahPublisher: Crossroad Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library. (Prepared by John Appleton.).
Author: Massachusetts Historical Society (BOSTON, Massachusetts). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
American Philanthropy, 1731-1860
Author: Publisher: Scholarly Title
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description