Let Us Prove Strong: The American Jewish Committee, 1945-2006UPNE, 2007 - 495 pages The American Jewish Committee (AJC), founded by wealthy men of German-Jewish descent in 1906, has a long-term mission to protect the civil and religious rights of Jews in the U.S. and around the globe. The AJC has also been distinguished for its outstanding staff and superb library, for its importance as a research center, and for its efforts to bring about social change through public education. Marianne Sanua's volume offers a full-scale history of this important organization, which will shortly celebrate its centennial. |
Table des matières
Displaced Persons and the BlausteinBenGurion Statement | 28 |
The First Jewish Continuity Crisis and the Triumph | 101 |
and the SixDay War 19671968 | 135 |
The 1970S | 197 |
Schools and the Rights of NeoNazis 19701979 | 228 |
and Soviet Jewry 19701980 | 260 |
TwentyFirst Century | 332 |
Jewish Unity 19902006 | 367 |
Appendix American Jewish Committee Presidents 19062006 | 399 |
Selected Bibliography | 459 |
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Let Us Prove Strong: The American Jewish Committee, 1945-2006 Marianne Rachel Sanua Affichage d'extraits - 2007 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
Affairs Department AJC annual meeting AJC archives AJC Board AJC Committee Reporter AJC Executive Committee AJC Journal AJC leaders AJC members AJC president AJC staff AJC's AJYB American Jewish Committee American Jewish community American Jewish Congress American Jews annual meeting transcript antisemitism Arab Blaustein Library Board of Governors called Catholic chapter Christian Church civil rights Conference Council David day schools declared director folder Germany groups Holocaust hundred Ibid immigration Intergroup Relations intermarriage Israel Israeli issue Jacob Blaustein JCAD Jewish Communal Affairs Jewish continuity Jewish day schools Jewish education Jewish identity Jewish organizations John Slawson Judaism major Memo ment Middle East million movement Nazi NJCRAC non-Jewish Orthodox Palestinian percent political Press Proskauer Rabbi Reagan religious riots Six-Day War social Soviet Jewry Soviet Union speech statement synagogues Tanenbaum thousand tion United University vote wrote York Zionist