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Zionism and the Melting Pot - Preachers, Pioneers, and Modern Jewish Politics (Hardcover)
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Zionism and the Melting Pot - Preachers, Pioneers, and Modern Jewish Politics (Hardcover)
Series: Jews and Judaism: History and Culture
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Traces the roots of ideologies and outlooks that shape Jewish life
in Israel and the United States today. Zionism and the Melting Pot
pivots away from commonplace accounts of the origins of Jewish
politics and focuses on the ongoing activities of actors
instrumental in the theological, political, diplomatic, and
philanthropic networks that enabled the establishment of new Jewish
communities in Palestine and the United States. M. M. Silver's
innovative new study highlights the grassroots nature of these
actors and their efforts - preaching, fundraising, emigration
campaigns, and mutual aid organizations - and argues that these
activities were not fundamentally ideological in nature but instead
grew organically from traditional Judaic customs, values, and
community mores. Silver examines events in three key locales -
Ottoman Palestine, czarist Russia and the United States - during a
period from the early 1870s to a few years before World War I. This
era which was defined by the rise of new forms of anti-Semitism and
by mass Jewish migration, ended with institutional and artistic
expressions of new perspectives on Zionism and American Jewish
communal life. Within this timeframe, Silver demonstrates, Jewish
ideologies arose somewhat amorphously, without clear agendas; they
then evolved as attempts to influence the character, pace, and
geographical coordinates of the modernization of East European
Jews, particularly in, or from, Russia's czarist empire. Unique in
his multidisciplinary approach, Silver combines political and
diplomatic history, literary analysis, biography, and
organizational history. Chapters switch successively from the
Zionist context, both in the czarist and Ottoman empires, to the
United States' melting-pot milieu. More than half of the figures
discussed are sermonizers, emissaries, pioneers, or writers unknown
to most readers. And for well-known figures like Theodor Herzl or
Emma Lazarus, Silver's analysis typically relates to texts and
episodes that are not covered in extant scholarship. By uncovering
the foundations of Zionism - the Jewish nationalist ideology that
became organized formally as a political movement - and of
melting-pot theories of Jewish integration in the United States,
Zionism and the Melting Pot breaks ample new ground.
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