American Jewry and the Oslo years

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorRubin, Neil, 1963-
dc.contributor.programTowson University. Jewish Studies Program
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-17T19:32:34Z
dc.date.available2015-12-17T19:32:34Z
dc.date.issued2013-06-11
dc.date.submitted2010-05
dc.description(Ph. D.) -- Towson University, 2010.
dc.description.abstractBy the early 1990s the themes binding American Jewish life were experiencing irrevocable change. Formal emigration and religious barriers for Jews in the former Soviet Union had ended. The task of commemorating the Holocaust was entrenched. Finally, the 1993 Israeli-PLO signing of the Olso Accords seriously challenged American Jewry's unity in politically defending an embattled Israel. Meanwhile, mounting internal American Jewish communal concerns included confronting intermarriage, declining Jewish identity measurements, and rising tensions between Orthodox and non-Orthodox Jews over Israeli government attempts to redefine the "Who is a Jew?" issue. At the same time, membership groups declined, the influence of "mega-donors" rose, and the sense being in a collective community weakened. By the end of the Oslo period and the start of the Second Intifada, American Jewish groups quickly again rushed to defend Israel, but they found an overall smaller, less interested and more divided community than in the past.
dc.description.tableofcontentsU.S. Jewry on the eve of Oslo -- The Rabin-Peres years -- The Netanyahu Years -- The Barak Years
dc.formatapplication/pdf
dc.format.extentvii, 281 pages
dc.genredissertations
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/M2VX2G
dc.identifier.otherDSP2010Rubin
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/1987
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofTowson University Archives
dc.relation.ispartofTowson University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
dc.relation.ispartofTowson University Institutional Repository
dc.rightsCopyright protected, all rights reserved.
dc.subject.lcshArab-Israeli conflict -- 1993- -- Peace
dc.subject.lcshJews -- United States -- Attitudes toward Israel
dc.subject.lcshIsrael -- Politics and government -- 1993-
dc.subject.lcshZionism -- United States
dc.titleAmerican Jewry and the Oslo years
dc.typeText
dcterms.accessRightsThere are no restrictions on access to this document. An internet release form signed by the author to display this document online is on file with Towson University Special Collections and Archives.

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
DSP2010Rubin.pdf
Size:
1.38 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Download

Collections

Towson University Graduate Theses and Dissertations