The Vanishing American Jew: In Search of Jewish Identity for the Next CenturyLittle, Brown, 6 янв. 2000 г. - Всего страниц: 416 In this urgent book, Alan M. Dershowitz shows why American Jews are in danger of disappearing - and what must be done now to create a renewed sense of Jewish identity for the next century. In previous times, the threats to Jewish survival were external - the virulent consequences of anti-Semitism. Now, however, in late-twentieth-century America, the danger has shifted. Jews today are more secure, more accepted, more assimilated, and more successful than ever before. They've dived into the melting pot - and they've achieved the American Dream. And that, according to Dershowitz, is precisely the problem. More than 50 percent of Jews will marry non-Jews, and their children will most often be raised as non-Jews. Which means, in the view of Dershowitz, that American Jews will vanish as a distinct cultural group sometime in the next century - unless they act now. Speaking to concerned Jews everywhere, Dershowitz calls for a new Jewish identity that focuses on the positive - the 3,500-year-old legacy of Jewish culture, values, and traditions. Dershowitz shows how this new Jewish identity can compete in America's open environment of opportunity and choice - and offers concrete proposals on how to instill it in the younger generation. |
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Will the End of Institutional AntiSemitism | 69 |
AntiSemitism in the Twentyfirst Century | 96 |
The Dangers of the Christian Right | 143 |
PROPOSED SOLUTIONSAND WHY THEY | 167 |
Make Aliyah The Israeli Solution to the Jewish | 219 |
Be a Mensch The Ethical Solution to | 256 |
Filling the Yiddisher Cup The Competitive | 291 |
A Call to Action | 339 |
The 500 Beginning Jewish Home Library | 375 |
Index | 381 |
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Стр. 178 - If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.
Стр. 263 - For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of the LORD, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
Стр. 156 - There is a religious war going on in our country for the soul of America. It is a cultural war, as critical to the kind of nation we will one day be as was the Cold War itself.
Стр. 145 - It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens, in giving it on all occasions their effectual support.
Стр. 197 - What did he mean by this? — Said R. Jeremiah: That the Torah had already been given at Mount Sinai; we pay no attention to a Heavenly Voice, because Thou hast long since written in the Torah at Mount Sinai, After the majority must one incline.
Стр. 134 - The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Стр. 197 - If the halachah agrees with me, let it be proved from Heaven!
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