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"The politics of acculturation, the process by which Jews championed unpopular social causes to ease their adaptation to American life, established them as the guardians of liberal America. But, according to Dollinger, it also erected barriers to Jewish liberal success. Faced with a conflict between liberal politics and their own acculturation, Jews almost always chose the latter. Few Jewish leaders, for example, condemned the wartime internment of Japanese Americans, and most southern Jews refused to join their northern co-religionists in public civil rights protests. When liberals advocated race-based affirmative action programs and busing to desegregate public schools, most Jews dissented. In chronicling the successes, limits, and failures of Jewish liberalism, Dollinger offers a nuanced yet wide-ranging political history, one intended for liberal activists, conservatives curious about the creation of neo-conservatism, and anyone interested in Jewish communal life."--Jacket.

Liberalisme --- Juifs --- Histoire --- Politique et gouvernement --- AFL (American Federation of Labor). --- American Civil Liberties Union. --- American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry. --- American Jewish Labor Council. --- American Palestine Committee. --- Arent, Albert E. --- Bakke case. --- Ben-Gurion, David. --- Black Muslim. --- Board of Rabbis (New York). --- Brown, Josephine. --- Carmichael, Stokely. --- Columbus Platform. --- Democratic party. --- Edelstein, Nathan. --- Executive Order 8802. --- Flaherty Bill (HR 5454). --- Forster, Arnold. --- General Jewish Council. --- German-American Jews. --- Grier, George and Eunice. --- Hebrew Union College. --- Hirabayashi case. --- Hopkins, Harry. --- Israel Emergency Fund. --- Jackson, Mississippi. --- Jewish Federation Council. --- Jewish Rights Council. --- Kaplan, Mordechai. --- Kaufman, Menaham. --- Korematsu case. --- Levin, Arthur. --- Lindbergh, Charles. --- Lippmann, Walter. --- Marshall Plan. --- National Brotherhood Week. --- Nye, Gerald. --- Pittsburgh Platform. --- Protestant church. --- Reagan, Ronald. --- affirmative action. --- civil libertarianism. --- civil rights movement. --- community chests. --- displaced persons. --- enlightenment (European). --- freedom bus. --- immigration reform. --- internment. --- isolationism. --- neo-conservatism.