The downfall of Abba Hillel Silver and the foundation of Israel /
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Syracuse, New York :
Syracuse University Press
[2014]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Modern Jewish history.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1j1nvq6 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.