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Penkower, Monty Noam, 1942-
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Title Twentieth-century Jews : forging identity in the land of promise and in the Promised Land / Monty Noam Penkower.
Publisher Boston : Academic Studies Press
Creation Date 2010
Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-383) and index.
Content The Kishinev pogrom of 1903 -- Abraham Isaac Selmanowitz: guardian of tradition -- The 'Jewish seat' of Justice Felix Frankfurter -- The genesis of the American Council for Judaism -- The Jewish Times of Arthur Hays Sulzberger -- The silences of Bialik -- A lost opportunity for Orthodoxy -- Haim Arlosoroff's murder and Israel's political divide -- Shlomo Ben-Yosef: from a British gallows to Israel's pantheon to obscurity.
Series Judaism and Jewish life
Extent xiv, 402 pages
24 cm.
Language English
National Library system number 990028131640205171

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