The book focuses on the most prominent exponents of the universalistic ideology of American Reform Judaism in the 1930s and 1940s. Those who attempted to maintain unquestioning fealty to the principles of universalistic Reform, even in view of the disheartening realities of the Holocaust, are the heroes of the plot that unfolds here. The way they struggled for their beliefs should be viewed as a point of departure for a more general discussion of the challenge posed by the Holocaust to the modern Jewish belief in the possibility and desirability of full cultural and social Jewish integration into non-Jewish society at large.
- ISBN10 900414109X
- ISBN13 9789004141094
- Publish Date 27 October 2004 (first published 1 January 2004)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country NL
- Imprint Brill
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 178
- Language English
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