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The Americanization of the Jews

REAPPRAISALS IN JEWISH SOCIAL
AND INTELLECTUAL HISTORY

GENERAL EDITOR:
ROBERT M. SELTZER

Martin Bubers Social and Religious Thought:
Alienation and the Quest for Meaning
LAURENCE J. SILBERSTEIN

The American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan
EDITED BY EMANUEL S. GOLDSMITH, MEL SCULT,
AND ROBERT M. SELTZER

On Socialists and the Jewish Question after Marx
JACK JACOBS

Easter in Kishinev: Anatomy of a Pogrom
EDWARD H. JUDGE

Jewish Responses to Modernity:
New Voices from America and Eastern Europe
ELI LEDERHENDLER

Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook and Jewish Spirituality
EDITED BY LAWRENCE J. KAPLAN AND DAVID SHATZ

The Americanization of the Jews
EDITED BY ROBERT M. SELTZER AND NORMAN J. COHEN

THE AMERICANIZATION OF THE JEWS

Edited by Robert M. Seltzer
and Norman J. Cohen

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
New York and London

Copyright 1995 by New York University
All rights reserved

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The Americanization of the Jews / edited by Robert M. Seltzer and
Norman J. Cohen
p. cm.(Reappraisals in Jewish social and intellectual history)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8147-8000-8 (cloth).ISBN 0-8147-8001-6 (pbk.)
1. JewsUnited StatesIdentityCongresses. 2. JewsCultural
assimilationUnited StatesCongresses. 3. JewsUnited States
Politics and governmentCongresses. 4. JudaismUnited States
Congresses. 5. United StatesEthnic relationsCongresses.
I. Seltzer, Robert M. II. Cohen, Norman J. III. Series.
E184.J5A618 1995
305.8924073dc20 94-36160
CIP

New York University Press books are printed on acid-free paper,
and their binding materials are chosen for strength and durability.

Manufactured in the United States of America

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

0814780016

To Naomi W. Cohen and Eugene B. Borowitz,
cherished colleagues and models
to younger generations of scholars

Contents

Norman J. Cohen

Robert M. Seltzer

PART ONE
Imagining America

Steven M. Lowenstein

Jacob Kabakoff

Ruth R. Wisse

Stephen J. Whitfield

PART TWO
Jews and the American Liberal Tradition

Henry L. Feingold

David G. Dalin

Nathan Glazer

Jerold S. Auerbach

PART THREE
Zionism in an American Setting

Melvin I. Urofsky

Arthur A. Goren

David Ellenson

PART FOUR
Traditional Religion in an American Setting

Jonathan D. Sarna

Jeffrey S. Gurock

Jenna Weissman Joselit

PART FIVE
The Impact of the Womens Movement

Ellen M. Umansky

Paula E. Hyman

Judith Hauptman

PART SIX
Three Modes of Religiosity

Samuel C. Heilman

Mel Scult

Edward K. Kaplan

PART SEVEN
Surviving as Jews in Twenty-First-Century America

Paul Ritterband

Steven M. Cohen

Egon Mayer

Charles S. Liebman

Arnold Eisen

Foreword

Norman J. Cohen

The aim of this book is to assess the current state of American Jewish life, drawing on the research and thinking of scholars from a variety of disciplines and diverse points of view. The groundwork was laid at a conference entitled American Jews: Dreams and Realities, held in New York City in the spring of 1991. Cosponsored by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and the Joseph and Ceil Mazer Institute for Research and Advanced Study of Judaica of the Graduate School of the City University of New York, the three-day gathering took place at the Brookdale campus of H.U.C.J.I.R. and at the Roosevelt House of Hunter College. The sessions drew large audiences of academics and professionals working in Jewish agencies as well as laypeople, and the presentations elicited vigorous response and interchange of ideas.

We are grateful to the staffs of the New York School of the College-Institute, in particular to Linda Jaffe, and of the Mazer Institute and the Hunter Jewish Social Studies Program, especially Rosalie K. Bachana and Marilyn J. Sladowsky, for making the myriad of arrangements for the conference. It could not have taken place and this volume would not have seen the light of day without the generous support of the Judy and Michael Steinhardt Foundation. The Steinhardts concern for the future vitality of American Jewish life led them to subvent the conference and the preparation of this book, along with a plethora of other activities in the Jewish community.

We are grateful, too, for the support and encouragement of the leadership of the College-Institute, especially President Alfred Gottschalk and Stanley P. Gold, Chair of the Board of Governors, as well as of members of the administration of the CUNY Graduate Center, especially Solomon Goldstein, former Dean of Research and University Programs.

Above all, our gratitude goes to Naomi W. Cohen, Distinguished Service Professor of American Jewish History at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and to Eugene B. Borowitz, Sigmund L. Falk Distinguished Professor of Education and Jewish Religious Thought at the New York School of H.U.C.J.I.R., both of whom served with me and Robert M. Seltzer on the planning committee. We benefited greatly from Naomi Cohens careful reading of all the papers and her indispensable advice in shaping the manuscript. The project owes much to her acumen and friendship.

Our special thanks is extended to Dennis M. Dreyfus for all that he did in helping to transform these presentations into a unified book. He was a full partner in bringing this work to press, going far beyond normal editorial duties. He spent many hours with each article and each contributor, sharpening content and polishing style. We cannot overstate his thoughtfulness, cooperation, skill, and remarkable ability to work effectively in an area that was not his own specialization.

We would like to express our appreciation to the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation for a grant that helped defray publication costs and the preparation of the index.

We would also like to thank our editors at New York University Press, Niko Pfund and Despina Papazoglou Gimbel, for their gracious and patient encouragement, gentle but determined coaxing, and, in Bobs case, for the warm friendship that has developed through this and other projects over the years.

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