American Jewish Identity Politics

Index

323 Index abortion and Holocaust rhetoric, 50, 60 Abzug, Bella, 224, 229 Academy Awards, 66, 68 Ackelsberg, Martha, 232 Adams, Henry, 243 Adler, Cyrus, 143, 177, 178 Adler, Morris, 31 af‹rmative action, 3, 101–2 African Americans, 3, 5, 8, 97, 101 Agnon, S. Y., 215 Agudath ha-Rabbanim, 172, 185 Ahavath Achim (Atlanta, GA), 180 Air Corps, and anti-Semitism, 28 Alba, Richard, 306 Aleph Zadik Aleph, 94 Allen, Woody, 249 Allies, the, 34; and Jewish immigration to Palestine, 35 Alter, Robert, 246 Altruistic Personality Project, 72 American civil religion, 54 American Days of Remembrance, 49 American feminism: and divergence from Jewish feminism, 230–32; and Jewish women, 222–23, 225; and women’s culture , 232–33 American Heart Association, 247 American Jewish Committee, 24, 45, 89, 91, 92, 98–99, 107–8, 274, 304 American Jewish Congress, 6, 24, 96, 107–8, 230, 235, 274 American Jewish culture, 17, 85–86, 105, 107–8, 243–51; and assimilation, 251–53; and cultural practice, 253–58; and ethnicity and religion, 258–62 American Jewish establishment, 11, 13, 102, 104–5, 230 American Jewish Historical Society, 106 American Jewish history: and American Judaism, 148; and assimilationist paradigm , 112; and Holocaust, 86, 96, 105–9, 139–40; and Six-Day War, 112 American Jewish Left, 92 American Jewish population, 24, 271, 276, 280 American Jewish Yearbook, 89, 91 American Judaism, 6, 10, 15, 39, 92, 307; and American Jewish culture, 258–62; and American society and culture, 245, 259, 261; and apathy toward, 254–55; and conversion, 271, 280–81; and family, 130–33; and feminism, 222, 234; and God and synagogue, 133–34; as hybrid, 307; and identity politics, 151–54; and individual autonomy, 127–30; and intergenerational tension, 7, 105; and Jewish identity, 308–9; and observance, 126–27; and religious diversity, 148–51; and religious liberty, 144–48; revitalization of, 135–36, 140–44 American Scholar, 70 Americans for Peace Now, 11 Americans for a Safe Israel, 11 American Spectator, 68 American wartime propaganda, 35 American women’s movement, 16, 221; and anti-Semitism, 226–30; and avoidance of Judaism, 223; emergence of, 222–23; Jewish participation in, 224–25 American Zionist Emergency Council, 34 American Zionists, 34–35. See also Habonim Améry, Jean, 70 anarchism, 4 Anti-Defamation League (ADL), 24, 72, 108, 274 anti-Semitism: and American Zionists, 34–35; and Jewish defense agencies, 108; anti-Semitism (continued) and Jewish Defense League, 9; and Jewish revival, 143; and Israel, 11–12; and outreach, 273; and the political left, 226–30; and the U.S. Army, 23, 27, 28, 30–31, 32, 37; and U.S. wartime propaganda , 36; and women’s movement, 4, 16, 226–30, 235 Appelfeld, Aharon, 75–76 Arafat, Yasir, 223 armed services (U.S.), and American Jewish identi‹cations, 28, 29, 30, 32, 35 Ashkenazim, 148, 262 assimilation, 5, 17, 135, 140, 143, 153, 167, 251–53, 267–70, 277, 299. See also intermarriage ; mixed marriage assimilationism, 7 Association for Jewish Studies, and feminism , 222, 234 Association of Holocaust Organizations, 65 Association of Sephardic Rabbis, 273 Atlanta, GA, American Jewish life in, 180, 181 Auschwitz, 45; and Polish national interest , 47–48; 76, 101, 111 Avisar, Ilan, 51–52 baal teshuvah, 161–62, 188, 234, 259 Babi Yar, 48 baby boomers, 7, 18; and American Christian , 134; and Orthodox and Conservative Jews, 160 baby boom generation, 2, 5 Baker, Ray Stannard, 163–64 Baldwin, James, 256 Baltimore, MD, Jewish life in, 149 bar and bat mitzvah: for adults, 236; upward mobility and, 38–39, 162 Barnett, Wendell, 244 Baron, Salo, 24 Bauer, Yehuda, 50–51, 56 Beaufort, John, 53 Beauvoir, Simone, 223 Begin, Menachem, 11 Belin, David W., 1, 272, 281 Belin Lectures, 2 Bellah, Robert, 127, 128, 308 Bensman, Joseph, 30 Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, NY, and World War II war effort, 33 Ben-Yehuda, Eliezer, 259 Berenbaum, Michael, 56 Bergen-Belsen, and Anne Frank, 12, 54, 76 Berger, Peter, 274 Bergson, Henri, 210 Berlin, Irving, 252 Bernstein, Leonard, 249 Bernstein, Michael Andre, 70 Bernstein, Philip, 90 Beth Elohim Congregation (Charleston, SC), 142 Beth Hamidrash HaGadol (Brookline, MA), 177 Beth Te‹las Moshe (Mount Clemens, MI), 187 Beth Te‹lo (Baltimore, MD), 173 bildung, 121, 128 Birmingham, AL, Jewish life in, 181 Birthright Israel, 152 Bitburg affair, 66 Black-Jewish relations, 229 Black Panthers, 9 Black power, 1, 4, 7 Block, Gay, 71 Bloom, Harold, 246, 251 Boro Park (Brooklyn, NY), Jewish life in, 170, 171 Borowitz, Eugene, 208 Boston, MA...