American Jewish Identity Politics

American Jewish Identity Politics, är en bok publicerad 2008 av The University of Michigan Press. Boken handlar om judar som är eller har varit inflytelserika inom den amerikanska politiken och påverkat samhällets utveckling inom flera områden, bland annat feminism, Förintelsen, invandring och mångkultur.

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Hence there existed a great deal of pressure, psychological as well as social, for assimilation, the end point of which was reached through intermarriage and the loss of Jewish identity. For many Jews bent on assimilation intermarriage became the vehicle of entry into the respectable echelons of the host society. By the same token, for those committed to "tradition," intermarriage became the ultimate symbol of Jewish withdrawal, and rejection of it served as the ultimate symbol of survivalism.

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