Jewish Americans and Political Participation: a Reference Handbook

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.>

About the author

DR. RAFAEL MEDOFF is Visiting Scholar in the Jewish Studies Program at the State University of New York, Purchase College. He has also taught at Ohio State University and elsewhere, and his articles on American Jewry, Zionism, and related subjects have appeared in numerous scholarly journals.

Product details

• Authors: Dr. Rafael Medoff, Rafael Medoff
• Assisted by: Raymond A. Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: Abc Clio Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.08.2002
• EAN: 9781576073148
• ISBN: 978-1-57607-314-8
• No. of pages: 371
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Political Participation in Ame; Political Participation in America
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education