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Jewish Americans and Political Participation: A Reference Handbook

Jewish Americans and Political Participation: A Reference Handbook

Medoff, Rafael

Hardcover

Series: Political Participation in America

General ReferenceGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 1576073149
ISBN13: 9781576073148
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: Aug 29 2002
Pages: 460
Weight: 1.51
Height: 1.32 Width: 6.31 Depth: 9.33
Language: English

This handbook addresses how the Jewish American community emerged from obscurity to play a role in behind-the-scenes power politics and finally appeared center stage.

Jewish Americans and Political Participation explores the rise of the Jewish people from hardscrabble immigrants to the highest echelons of political power. The book provides an overview of American Jewish life, including the impact of immigration, domestic antisemitism, the Holocaust, and U.S-Israel relations. A chapter is devoted to protest politics, covering such events as President Grant's Order #11 (expulsion edict), tenants and shirtwaist-makers strikes, the 1943 rabbis march on Washington, and Jewish responses to the Rosenberg case.

The book also covers participation in social movements such as abolition, Jewish defense organizations, and the New Left. A chapter is devoted to Jewish participation in electoral politics, from Jewish interest in early socialism to Jewish advisers and the emergence of Jewish conservatism. There are also biographies of Jewish American officials and political officeholders.

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