The threshold of dissent : a history of American Jewish critics of Zionism /
History of American Jewish critics of Zionism
Marjorie N. Feld.
- pages cm.
- Goldstein-Goren series in American Jewish history .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Jewish Anti- and Non-Zionism: The Reform Movement in the Early 20th Century -- The Jews in Revolt: William Zukerman, The Jewish Newsletter, and Midcentury Critics of American Zionism -- "Israel-right or wrong": Anti-Colonialism, Freedom Movements, and American Jewish Life -- The Threshold of Dissent in the 1980s: New Jewish Agenda and American Civil Rights -- Conclusion: American Jewish Critics of Zionism and the Cost of a Forced Consensus -- Coda: A New Chapter in American Jewish Dissent?
"The Threshold of Dissent: A History of American Jewish Critics of Zionism reveals the deep - and deeply contested - century-long history of anti-Zionist and non-Zionist American Jews who drew on the intellectual currents of the Reform movement, the Yiddish left, anti-colonialism and Jewish feminism to voice profound concerns over mainstream Jewish leaders' insistence on unqualified support for Jewish nationalism, Zionism and Israel"--
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Jews--Attitudes toward Israel.--United States Jews--Politics and government.--United States Zionism--History.--United States
Israel--Politics and government--Foreign public opinion, American.