{"product_id":"http-books-google-com-books-id-sikljrgdfhoc-dq-isbn-9780520943704-hl-source-gbs_api","title":"Speaking of Jews: Rabbis, Intellectuals, and the Creation of an American Public Identity","description":"\u003cp\u003eLila Corwin Berman asks why, over the course of the twentieth century, American Jews became increasingly fascinated, even obsessed, with explaining themselves to their non-Jewish neighbors. What she discovers is that language itself became a crucial tool for Jewish group survival and integration into American life. Berman investigates a wide range of sources—radio and television broadcasts, bestselling books, sociological studies, debates about Jewish marriage and intermarriage, Jewish missionary work, and more—to reveal how rabbis, intellectuals, and others created a seemingly endless array of explanations about why Jews were indispensable to American life. Even as the content of these explanations developed and shifted over time, the very project of self-explanation would become a core element of Jewishness in the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e Lila Corwin Berman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Univ of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2009-03-10\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 286\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCategories:\u003c\/strong\u003e Religion\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Univ of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62680886182259,"sku":"0520943708","price":320.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0987\/0812\/8115\/files\/content_9c12974a-b10d-435b-af32-4c4ed460772a.jpg?v=1775243033","url":"https:\/\/readaura.store\/products\/http-books-google-com-books-id-sikljrgdfhoc-dq-isbn-9780520943704-hl-source-gbs_api","provider":"Read Aura","version":"1.0","type":"link"}