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02500cam a2200361 a 4500 001 0F3B2518FBCE11DEB3E93EDF5F36B428 003 SILO 005 20140917014642 008 090114s2009 nyu b 000 0 eng 010 $a 2009001357 020 $a 0385529198 020 $a 9780385529198 035 $a (OCoLC)297147705 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d UPZ $d ABG $d BWX $d KAY $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a DS140 $b .P63 2009 082 00 $a 320.51/3089924073 $2 22 100 1 $a Podhoretz, Norman. 245 1 $a Why are Jews liberals? / $c Norman Podhoretz. 250 $a 1st ed. 260 $a New York : $b Doubleday, $c c2009. 300 $a xii, 337 p. ; $c 25 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-317). 505 0 $a How the Jews became liberals. The "witness" doctrine ; Ghettos ; Poets and exegetes ; Emancipation : phase one ; The enlightenment puzzle ; Haskalah ; Emancipation : phase two ; The second great puzzle ; The golden land ; Jews from Germany ; Anti-Semitism, patrician style ; Jews without money ; Emancipation : the backlash ; "Defilers" of the culture ; Enter FDR ; In Roosevelt's wake : Truman ; From 1852-1968 -- Why the Jews are still liberals. The golden age of Jewish security ; Something new under the Jewish sun ; Nixon and Israel ; Carter : "joining the jackals" ; The 1980 election ; Reagan and Israel ; Anti-"Zionism" ; The case of The nation ; The case of National review ; George H.W. Bush and Israel ; The case of Pat Buchanan ; Clinton, the Religious Right, and the Jews ; George W. Bush and Israel ; 2008 ; As liberal as ever? ; The wrong answers ; The "Torah" of liberalism. 520 $a In his brilliant and provocative examination of why Jews are liberals, Podhoretz reviews the history of Jewish political attitudes and thoroughly examines the available evidence, demonstrating that all the usual explanations--such as a passion for justice allegedly deriving from the prophets of the Hebrew Bible--are either inadequate or flat-out false. Finally he proposes his own answer to the great puzzle of why most Jews remain as committed to liberalism as ever. 650 0 $a Jews $x Politics and government. 650 0 $a Jews $z United States $x Politics and government. 650 0 $a Liberalism $z United States. 941 $a 2 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20230203014357.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160825032557.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0F3B2518FBCE11DEB3E93EDF5F36B428 994 $a 02 $b KAYInitiate Another SILO Locator Search