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The Jewish presence : essays on identity and history / Lucy S. Dawidowicz.

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Main Author:	Dawidowicz, Lucy S.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, c1977.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Jews > Identity. Jews > United States. Judaism > United States. Yiddish language > United States. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) United States > Social conditions. Juifs > Identité

Table of Contents:

Jewish identity: a matter of fate, a matter of choice
Arnold Schoenberg: a search for Jewish identity
On being a woman in Shul
Explaining American Jews
Middle-class Judaism
When reform was young
From past to past: Jewish east Europe to Jewish east side
The Jewishness of the American Jewish labor movement
Yiddish: past, present, and perfected
Yiddish and its translation
Max Weinreich: scholarship of Yiddish
Picturing the past
Can anti-semitism be measured?
Smut and anti-semitism
In Hitler's service: Albert Speer
An obedient killer: Franz Stangl, commandant of Treblinka
Bleaching the black lie: the case of Theresienstadt
Blaming the Jews: the charge of perfidy
Resistance: a doomed struggle
Belsen remembered.