Title Gentile New York : the images of non-Jews among Jewish immigrants / Gil Ribak

Published New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 292 pages) : illustrations Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global cultural studies collection Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- 1. "Never Before Have Gentiles Hated Jews So Much": The Images of Non-Jews in Eastern European Jewish Society in the Late Nineteenth Century -- 2. "Lovers of Man": The Images of Americans among Eastern European Jews in the Last Third of the Nineteenth Century -- 3. "In Goodness They Even Exceed the English": The Idealization of "Yankees" in the 1880s and 1890s -- 4. "The American Is Not Very Musical and Not So Sociable": The Beginnings of an Attitudinal Change in the Early 1900s -- 5. "You Could Almost Forget That He Is Not a Jew": The Jewish Labor Movement and Secularized Chosenness, 1909-1914 -- 6. "The 'Green' Italian Pays the Same Good Taxes as the 14-Karat Yankee": The War in Europe and the Beginnings of Reorientation toward Certain Minority Groups, 1914-1917 -- 7. "What the American Can Do in His Anger": World War I and the Red Scare, 1917-1920 -- Epilogue: Self-Image and Its Limitations -- A Note on Methodology and Sources -- Notes -- Index Summary The very question of "what do Jews think about the goyim" has fascinated Jews and Gentiles, anti-Semites and philo-Semites alike. This critical look at the origins of Jewish liberalism in America provides a more complicated and nuanced picture of the Americanization process. Gentile New York examines these newcomers' evolving feelings toward non-Jews through four critical decades in the American Jewish experience. Gil Ribak considers how they perceived Gentiles in general as well as such different groups as "Yankees" (a common term in many Yiddish sources), Germ Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL SUBJECT Metropolitan Museum of Art gnd Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld gnd Subject Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Attitudes Gentiles -- Public opinion Public opinion -- New York (State) -- New York Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- Attitudes Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. HISTORY -- United States -- General. Ethnic relations Immigrants -- Attitudes Jews Jews -- Attitudes Public opinion Amerikabild Nichtjude Juden Kulturkontakt Öffentliche Meinung Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Attitudes. Gentiles -- Public opinion. Public opinion -- New York (State) -- New York. Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- Attitudes. Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century. SUBJECT New York (N.Y.) -- Ethnic relations Subject New York (State) -- New York New York (N.Y.) -- Ethnic relations. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2011010860 ISBN 0813552192 9780813552194 9786613587756 6613587753

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