American Post-Judaism: Identity and Renewal in a Postethnic Society

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Abrams, elliot, 19 Abu-Hatseira, Israel (Baba Sali), 162– 163, 164 Abu-Hatseira, ya’akob, 171–172 Abulafia, Abraham, 107, 153 acosmism. See panentheism Adler, Felix: on Christianity, 40–41; defining Israel, 105; on the ethical Ideal, 38–39, 40–41, 46, 47; on group identity/identity formation, 39–40, 264n12; group morality concept of, 39, 45, 46, 47, 250n20; influence on Mordecai Kaplan, 44, 46, 47–48; on reform Judaism, 54; on religion, 38– 40, 264n12; Society for ethical Culture , 38, 40, 268n52; Theism rejected by, 38. See also Society for ethical Culture Adler, Samuel, 111 Adorno, Theodore, 328n45 aggada, 123–124 Ahad ha-Am, 206, 267n52 Ahavat Yisrael (Love of Israel), 214– 215, 219 Albanese, Catherine, 37, 63 Albright, Madeline, 32, 33 Alexander, edward, 207 Alexander, Jeffrey: American myth of the Holocaust, 190, 191, 192; Americanization of the Holocaust, 189; on evil, 324n4; Holocaust as traumadrama , 192, 193; social construction of the Holocaust, 187, 188, 190, 191– 192, 326n17; sociological perspectives on the Holocaust, 188, 190; universalization of the Holocaust, 192, 193–195 Altizer, Thomas, 95 American Jewish mysticism: Kabbalah Centre (Los Angeles), 59, 60, 148, 264n11, 272n15; Schneerson, Menahem Mendel, 9, 50–51, 59, 116, 142, 179, 314n16 American Jews: Ahavat Yisrael (Love of Israel), 214–215, 219; American Jewish Jesus, 133, 134–136, 151, 304n9; as autonomous society, 207–208; civil religion of, 203–204, 205–207, 210, 213–214, 217; desire for ethnic survival , 201–204, 213; hadar (American Jewish pride), 210, 212, 213, 215, 216; intermarriage, 2, 4, 6–7, 21–22, 28–32, 242; on Israel, 204, 206–207, 330n75; multiculturalism, 137–138; negative Judaism, 200, 203–205, 213, 222; postethnicity, 20, 26; race question , 6; as Zionists, 206–207. See also Americanization of the Holocaust American Judaism: anti-Zionism in, 169; challenges to monotheism, 76; civil religion of, 203–204, 205–207, 210, 213–214, 217; diaspora, 25; hadar (American Jewish pride), 210, 212, 213, 215, 216; halakhic/post-halakhic dichotomy in, 131–132; Hebrew literacy , 168–169; interest in mysticism in, 160; Josephine Lazarus on, 41–42; Mussar movement, 174–175; posthalakha in, 126; rabbinic authority in, 79, 314n18; reinvention of tradition as nostalgia, 169–170; sainthood in, 160, 314nn17–18; selfhood, 158, 174–176. See also Adler, Felix; Jewish renewal; reconstructionist Judaism Americanization of the Holocaust, 187, 325n9; adoption of Holocaust as part of American history, 192–193; America’s adoption of the Jewish narrative , 190, 191; dogma of uniqueness , 192, 193, 194–196, 202, 326n24, Index 372 Index 327n40, 328n58; generalization in, 191–192, 193, 326n21; Holocaust as tool of exceptionalism, 202; Holocaust as trauma-drama, 192, 193–194; Holocaust-and-redemption (shoah u’gevurah), 206–207, 210; HolocaustIsrael paradigm, 204–206, 207–209, 329n61; moral implications of, 193, 194; myth of the Holocaust, 188, 191– 192, 194, 204–206, 329n61, 329n66; nazis, 190, 191, 326n21; in politics, 190; post-Holocaust memory, 216; silence during the Holocaust, 214–215; universalization of Holocaust, 188, 189, 190, 192–197, 326n24, 327n41 Anidjar, Gil, 162 anti-Semitism: American Jews and, 6, 11; Holocaust, 211; and the Holocaust myth, 204–205; Jew-hatred, 211–218, 327n41; Jewish identity in America, 6; Jewish pride as antidote to, 215–216; Jewish survival in the absence of, 197, 199–202, 215–216, 364n12; Kahane on, 211; negative Judaism, 207–208, 213; secular views on, 211–212; Zionism , 198, 364n12 anti-theodicy, 211–212 Appadurai, Arjun, 17 Appiah, Anthony, 23, 24, 198 Arendt, Hannah, 197, 220, 238, 265n26, 334n130 Arlow, Jacob, 317n165 ArtScroll: european Mussar movement, 167, 174–177, 318n61; founding of, 117, 167–168, 318n61; hagiographies, 170, 171, 320n76; reinvention of tradition as nostalgia, 169–170; sainthood revised by, 184; self-realization, 184 ArtScroll biography series: Americanization of, 172–173, 175–176; demystification of the hero in, 189; exemplary lives in, 169, 170–172; heroism in, 175–177; miracle stories, 172–173, 175–176; piety of the sages in, 169, 170–171; teacher-student relationship in torah study, 175–177 ascomism. See pantheism Ashlag, yehuda, 59–60 assimilation: Ahavat Yisrael (Love of Israel ), 214–215; disassimilation, 7–8, 17–19, 146, 187, 240–241; Jewish selfhatred , 217, 333n117; Jewish survival in the absence of anti-Semitism, 197, 199–202, 215–216, 364n12; melting (Kahane) as, 215; use of term, 246n21 Assmann, Jan: on biblical monotheism, 66, 83–84, 88, 102, 282nn45–46; cosmotheism, 78, 81–82, 84–85, 279n12, 281n28; counter-religions, 82, 83, 282n45; exclusionary model of monotheism, 283n51; God’s relation with the world...