Against the tide: The american hebrew yearbook, 1930&1949

Eli Lederhendler

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Abstract

Despite the survival of Hebrew as a language of prayer, and the pockets of Hebrew and Yiddish readers and speakers that exist in America today, American Jewry is overwhelmingly English-oriented in its cultural endeavors as well as everyday communication. That is one of the measures of American Jewry’s successful integration in American society, and may thus be regarded as one of its achievements. On the debit side, of course, one may bewail the inevitable loss of direct access to the considerable cultural assets brought to the United States by the immigrant generation (or left behind by them in Europe).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)51-82
Number of pages32
JournalAJS Review
Volume17
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 1992

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