Charles Seymour Liebman's Books

Foreign Immigrants in Early Bourbon Mexico, 1700-1760

By: Charles F. Nunn

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Foreign Immigrants in Early Bourbon Mexico, 1700-1760

By: Charles F. Nunn

A study of illegal immigration into Mexico, Spain's principal New World possession.

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260

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Cambridge University Press

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0521527058

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9780521527057

The World Reacts to the Holocaust

By: David S. Wyman,Charles H. Rosenzveig

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The World Reacts to the Holocaust

By: David S. Wyman,Charles H. Rosenzveig

Among the issues examined are the extent of the human destruction, the degree of collaboration, Jewish reactions, and efforts to save the Jews.

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1022

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JHU Press

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0801849691

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9780801849695

Choosing Survival

Strategies for a Jewish Future

By: Bernard Susser,Charles S. Liebman

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Choosing Survival

Strategies for a Jewish Future

By: Bernard Susser,Charles S. Liebman

Throughout history, the persecutions of the Jewish people have been central to their identity and to the cohesion of their religion and cultural heritage. But now, with the success of the Jewish State of Israel and the prosperity of Jews in the United States, the collective sufferings that have forged the Jewish identity are disappearing. The compelling question Bernard Susser and Charles Liebman ask in Choosing Survival is: Will this success paradoxically prove fatal to Judaism? Susser and Liebman paint a disturbing portrait of the decline of Judaism in both Israel and the United States and the various--and mainly ineffective--efforts to reverse that decline. In Israel, as Jews are increasingly drawn to cosmopolitan Western culture, Jewishness is in danger of being reduced merely to communal folkways, while political tensions between religious and secular Jews threaten to pull the state apart. In the U.S., assimilation and secularization is even harder to resist. Efforts to strengthen Jewish identity by claiming the U.S. is still anti-Semitic and by pointing to the Holocaust and the threats to Israel's survival have not worked. The authors do, however, see a hopeful sign in Jewish Orthodoxy which, while not a viable solution to the problem, is successfully passing on its tenets and practices and attracting many non-Orthodox Jews. They identify several aspects of Orthodoxy that can be emulated by all Jews and hold the best hope for Jewish survival--its reverence for study, its ability to set and maintain boundaries, and its deep belief in community. For anyone concerned about the fate of Judaism and what it means to be Jewish, Choosing Survival is an impassioned, troubling, and essential book.

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219

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Oxford University Press

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0198029349

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9780198029342

We Have No Leaders

African Americans in the Post-Civil Rights Era

By: Robert Charles Smith

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We Have No Leaders

African Americans in the Post-Civil Rights Era

By: Robert Charles Smith

This comprehensive study of African American politics since the civil rights era concludes that the black movement has been co-opted, marginalized, and almost wholly incorporated into mainstream institutions.

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420

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SUNY Press

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0791431355

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9780791431351

Suburban Differences and Metropolitan Policies

A Philadelphia Story

By: Oliver P. Williams,Harold Herman,Charles S. Liebman,Thomas R. Dye

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Suburban Differences and Metropolitan Policies

A Philadelphia Story

By: Oliver P. Williams,Harold Herman,Charles S. Liebman,Thomas R. Dye

The emergence of the metropolitan complex as the characteristic urban form in the United States has raised the question of the adequacy of traditional local governments to cope with changed local conditions. Most studies on this subject have focused on the attempts by suburbs to achieve metropolitan forms of government, stressing the interdependence of local units of government and the resulting need for integrative governments to formulate and execute area-wide policies. This book takes note of the failures of the metropolitan governmental proposals and turns attention to the forces for decentralization in the government of metropolitan areas. In other words, this is a study of the forces for independence—the values that impel local units to cherish and protect their separate identities. It seeks to describe these values not as sentiments, but as actual public policies realized through the actions of local governments. Specifically, it analyzes the way in which local municipal and school fiscal policies and the patterns of inter-local cooperative arrangements reflect the discrete circumstances of the individual suburbs. The locus of the study is the Philadelphia area, but its findings will be of interest to a national as well as a local audience. Approximately 300 municipalities are covered in the analysis. The findings of the study are discussed for their implications for future changes in the governing of metropolitan areas. Although scholarly in its approach to urban problems, this empirical study has been written in a way that will make it understandable and valuable to the lay reader. It is illustrated with maps and charts, and includes a lengthy statistical appendix.

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364

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1512809756

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9781512809756

A Certain People

American Jews and Their Lives Today

By: Charles E. Silberman

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A Certain People

American Jews and Their Lives Today

By: Charles E. Silberman

A richly detailed study of the status of Jews in America today.

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472

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0671447610

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9780671447618

Book's by Charles Seymour Liebman

Foreign Immigrants in Early Bourbon Mexico, 1700-1760

Foreign Immigrants in Early Bourbon Mexico, 1700-1760

The World Reacts to the Holocaust

The World Reacts to the Holocaust

Choosing Survival

Choosing Survival

We Have No Leaders

We Have No Leaders

Suburban Differences and Metropolitan Policies

Suburban Differences and Metropolitan Policies

A Certain People

A Certain People

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