The downfall of Abba Hillel Silver and the foundation of Israel /

Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Shiff, Ofer (Awdur)
Fformat: Licensed eBooks
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press [2014]
Rhifyn:First edition.
Cyfres:Modern Jewish history.
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1j1nvq6
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • I. The Early 1950s. 1. The Bridge's and Wall's approach
  • 2. The American century in the wake of the Holocaust
  • 3. Where Judaism differed: a call for external and internal reform
  • II. In Retrospect: Silver's pre-State Zionist career. 4. Silver's early struggle against anti-Semitism and Nazism
  • 5. The 1940s: the Holocaust as political leverage
  • 6. 1947-1948: an American-Jewish or a pan-Jewish leader?
  • III. Israel becomes an ideological and political challenge. 7. In the wake of Israeli statehood
  • 8. Identification without subordination
  • 9. The attempt to regain status in the wake of Eisenhower's election
  • 10. A recurrent existential threat to the Jews
  • 11. Unequivocal support for Israel during the Suez crisis
  • Epilogue. Reform Jewish prophet or Zionist leader? 12. Silver as a progressive visionary
  • 13. Nonetheless, a Zionist leader.