Ambivalent Embrace: Jewish Upward Mobility In Postwar America

Materially poor, spiritually rich: poverty in the postwar Jewish imagination -- What now supports Jewish liberalism?: upward mobility and Jewish political identity -- Pathfinders' predicament: negotiating middle-class Judaism -- What kind of job is that for a nice Jewish boy?: masculinity in an upwardly mobile community -- Hadassah makes you important: debating middle-class Jewish femininity -- From generation to generation: the Jewish counterculture's critique of affluence

• | Author: Rachel Kranson
• | Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 06, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 232 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Social Science
• | ISBN-10: 1469635429
• | ISBN-13: 9781469635439