| Control Number | muse65318 |
| Control Number Identifier | MdBmJHUP |
| Date and Time of Latest Transaction | 20180103104315.0 |
| Additional Material Characteristics | m o d |
| Physical Description Fixed Field | cr||||||||nn|n |
| General Information | 170421s2017 ncu o 00 0 eng d |
| LC Control Number | 2017019368 |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781469635453 |
| | 1469635453 |
| | 9781469635422 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| | 9781469635439 (pbk : alk. paper) |
| System Control Number | (OCoLC)1004564545 |
| Cataloging Source | MdBmJHUP MdBmJHUP |
| Library of Congress Call Number | E184.36.S65 K73 2017 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification Number | 305.892/4073 23 |
| Main Entry - Personal Name | Kranson, Rachel, author. |
| Title Statement | Ambivalent Embrace [electronic resource] : Jewish Upward Mobility in Postwar America / Rachel Kranson |
| Publication, Distribution, Etc. | Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015) |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (pages cm) |
| Bibliography, Etc. Note | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Formatted Contents Note | Materially poor, spiritually rich: poverty in the postwar Jewish imagination -- What now supports Jewish liberalism?: upward mobility and Jewish political identity -- Pathfinders' predicament: negotiating middle-class Judaism -- What kind of job is that for a nice Jewish boy?: masculinity in an upwardly mobile community -- Hadassah makes you important: debating middle-class Jewish femininity -- From generation to generation: the Jewish counterculture's critique of affluence |
| Summary, Etc. | "This new cultural history of Jewish life and identity in the United States after World War II focuses on the process of upward mobility. ... challenges the common notion that most American Jews unambivalently celebrated their generally strong growth in economic status and social acceptance during the booming postwar era. In fact, a significant number of Jewish religious, artistic, and intellectual leaders worried about the ascent of large numbers of Jews into the American middle class"-- Provided by publisher |
| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term | Jews -- United States -- Identity |
| | Wealth -- Psychological aspects |
| | Wealth -- Moral and ethical aspects |
| | Wealth -- Religious aspects -- Judaism |
| | Jews -- United States -- Attitudes |
| | Jews -- United States -- Social conditions |
| Index Term - Genre/Form | Electronic books. -- local |
| Added Entry - Corporate Name | Project Muse |
| Series Added Entry - Uniform Title | Book collections on Project MUSE |
| Electronic Location and Access | Full text available: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/55963/ |
