Jewish Responses to Modernity New Voices in America and Eastern Europe |
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Author:
| Lederhendler, Eli |
ISBN: | 978-0-8147-5084-1 |
Publication Date: | Jul 1994 |
Publisher: | New York University Press
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Imprint: | NYU Press |
Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $89.00 |
Book Description:
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By examining how Jews filtered their experience of modernity through their speech and literature, Lederhendler provides an overview of the way in which the self-perceptions of Jews evolved, both in the Old World and among immigrants to America, and reveals how cultural conflicts were reconciled.
By examining how Jews filtered their experience of modernity through their speech and literature, Lederhendler provides an overview of the way in which the self-perceptions of Jews evolved, both in the Old World and among immigrants to America, and reveals how cultural conflicts were reconciled.