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Jews in Christian America - The Pursuit of Religious Equality (Hardcover)
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Jews in Christian America - The Pursuit of Religious Equality (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Jewish History
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A driving force in the history of American Jews has been the
pursuit of religious equality under law. Jews reasoned that state
and federal legislation or public practices which sanctioned
religious, specifically Christian, usages blocked their path to
full integration within society. Always a small minority and ever
fearful of the outspoken proponents of the Christian state,
nineteenth-century Jews became ardent defenders of church-state
separation. In the twentieth century, Jewish defense organizations
took a prominent role in landmark court cases on religion in the
schools, Sunday laws, and public displays of Christian symbols.
Over the last two centuries, Jews shifted from support of a
neutral-to-all-religions government to a divorced-from-religion
government, and from defense of their own interests to the defense
of other religious minorities. Jews in Christian America traces in
historical context the response of American Jews to the issues
presented by a Christian-flavored public religion. Discussing the
contributions of each major wave of Jewish immigrants to the
reinforcement of a separationist stand, Cohen shows how Jewish
communal priorities, pressures from the larger society, and
Jewish-Christian relationships fashioned that response. She also
makes clear that the Jewish community was never totally united on
the goals and tactics of a separationist posture; despite the
continued predominance of the strict separationists, others argued
the adverse effects of that position on communal well-being and on
the very survival of Judaism.
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