Voices of Jacob, Hands of Esau: Jews in American Life and ThoughtExamines the Jewish experience in 20th century America. The four parts of the book deal with Jewish intellectual reactions to totalitarianism and the Holocaust, the history of American Jewry, the Jews in mass culture, and the Jews of the South. References to antisemitism occur throughout the book. |
Contents
American Jewish Intellectuals and Totalitarianism | 9 |
The Holocaust in the American Jewish Mind | 30 |
The Challenge of American Jewish History | 53 |
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Voices of Jacob, Hands of Esau: Jews in American Life and Thought Stephen J. Whitfield No preview available - 1984 |
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Post-War Jewish Fiction: Ambivalence, Self Explanation and Transatlantic ... David Brauner No preview available - 2001 |