TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shiff,Ofer
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - The downfall of Abba Hillel Silver and the foundation of Israel
T2  - Modern Jewish history
SN  - 9780815652809
AV  - BM755.S544 S55 2014
U1  - 320.54095694092B 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Syracuse, N.Y.
PB  - Syracuse University Press
KW  - Silver, Abba Hillel,
KW  - Zionists
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Rabbis
KW  - Ohio
KW  - Cleveland
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; I. The Early 1950s. 1. The Bridge's and Wall's approach -- 2. The American century in the wake of the Holocaust -- 3. Where Judaism differed: a call for external and internal reform -- II. In Retrospect: Silver's pre-State Zionist career. 4. Silver's early struggle against anti-Semitism and Nazism -- 5. The 1940s: the Holocaust as political leverage -- 6. 1947-1948: an American-Jewish or a pan-Jewish leader? -- III. Israel becomes an ideological and political challenge.  7. In the wake of Israeli statehood -- 8. Identification without subordination -- 9. The attempt to regain status in the wake of Eisenhower's election -- 10. A recurrent existential threat to the Jews -- 11. Unequivocal support for Israel during the Suez crisis -- Epilogue. Reform Jewish prophet or Zionist leader? 12. Silver as a progressive visionary -- 13. Nonetheless, a Zionist leader
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780815652809/
ER  -