Ambivalent Embrace: Jewish Upward Mobility in Postwar America

by Rachel Kranson

This new cultural history of Jewish life and identity in the United States after World War II focuses on the process of upward mobility. Rachel Kranson challenges the common notion that most American Jews unambivalently celebrated their generally strong growth in economic status and social acceptance during the booming postwar era. In fact, a significant number of Jewish religious, artistic, and intellectual leaders worried about the ascent of large...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469635429
• ISBN13: 9781469635422
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"