Torn at the Roots: The Crisis of Jewish Liberalism in Postwar America

Michael E. Staub

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Paper, 392 pages, 38 illus
ISBN: 978-0-231-12375-4
$29.00 / £20.00

July, 2002
Cloth, 392 pages, 38 illus
ISBN: 978-0-231-12374-7
$90.00 / £62.00

Introduction: "Making my Jewishness too visible"

1. "The racists of America fly blindly at both of us": Atrocity Analogies and Anticommunism

2. "Liberal Judaism is a contradiction in terms": Anti-Racist Zionists, Prophetic Jews, and their Critics

3. "Artificial altruism sows only seeds of error and chaos": Desegregation and Jewish Survival

4. "Protect and keep": Vietnam, Israel, and the Politics of Theology

5. "If there was dirty linen, it had to be washed": Jews for Urban Justice and Radical Judaism

6. "We are coming home": New Left Jews and Radical Zionism

7. "Are you against the Jewish family?": Debating the Sexual Revolution

8. "If we really care about Israel": Breira and the Limits of Dissent

Related Subjects

• American History
• American Religion
• Judaism

Series

• Religion and American Culture

About the Author

Michael E. Staub teaches English and American Studies at Bowling Green State University. He is the author of Voices of Persuasion: Politics of Representation in 1930s America. He lives in Ann Arbor, MI.

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