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Diaspora Jews are increasingly likely to criticise Israel and support Palestinian rights. In the USA, Europe and elsewhere, Jewish organisations have sprung up to oppose Israel's treatment of Palestinians, facing harsh criticism from fellow Jews for their actions. Jewish Identity and Palestinian Rights is a groundbreaking study of this vital and growing worldwide social movement.

The author documents the growth of American Zionism between 1933-1948. he Refers to the Non-Zionist approach of the American Jewish Committee, the personality clashes between Abba Hillel silver and Stephen wise, and the major question in american jewish minds as to whether to give priority to rescuing european jews or to securing a national homeland in palestine.

This new cultural history of Jewish life and identity in the United States after World War II focuses on the process of upward mobility. Rachel Kranson challenges the common notion that most American Jews unambivalently celebrated their generally strong growth in economic status and social acceptance during the booming postwar era. In fact, a significant number of Jewish religious, artistic, and intellectual leaders worried about the ascent of large...

The South Side is Louis Rosen's story of two communities that collided almost by accident at a moment in America's history when race relations were starting to explode, and the profound impact this collision had on the lives of families and individuals on both sides of the event. It is a tale of how dreams were realized and shattered in the confrontation between moral courage, spiritual ethics, and personal fears. Mr. Rosen tells the story in memoir...

"Ambiguous Relations addresses for the first time the complex relationship between American Jews and Germany over the fifty years following the end of World War II, and examines American Jewry's ambiguous attitude toward Germany that continues despite sociological and generational changes within the community." "Shlomo Shafir recounts attempts by American Jews to influence U.S. policy toward Germany after the war and traces these efforts through President...