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American Jewry and the Re-Invention of the East European Jewish Past (Hardcover, Digital original)
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American Jewry and the Re-Invention of the East European Jewish Past (Hardcover, Digital original)
Series: New Perspectives on Modern Jewish History
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The postwar decades were not the "golden era" in which American
Jews easily partook in the religious revival, liberal consensus,
and suburban middle-class comfort. Rather it was a period marked by
restlessness and insecurity born of the shock about the Holocaust
and of the unprecedented opportunities in American society.
American Jews responded to loss and opportunity by obsessively
engaging with the East European past. The proliferation of
religious texts on traditional spirituality, translations of
Yiddish literature, historical essays , photographs and documents
of shtetl culture, theatrical and musical events, culminating in
the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof, illustrate the grip of
this past on post-1945 American Jews. This study shows how American
Jews reimagined their East European past to make it usable for
their American present. By rewriting their East European history,
they created a repertoire of images, stories, and ideas that have
shaped American Jewry to this day.
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