Let Us Prove Strong
The American Jewish Committee, 1945-2006
Marianne Sanua

Brandeis University Press
University Press of New England

Table of Contents

• Foreword  
• Preface • List of Abbreviations • 1906–1959 • Origins: From the Kishinev Pogrom to the State
of Israel (1903–1948) • “With Ever-Increasing Vigor”: The Science of Hatred, the Displaced Persons, and the Blaustein–Ben-Gurion Statement • “This Is Our Home” (1951–1957) • The 1960s
• The First Jewish Continuity Crisis and the Triumph of Vatican II (1960–1965) • Disaster and Deliverance: Jewish Identification and the Six-Day War (1967–1968) • The Civil Rights Movement and the Great Society (1960–1970) • The 1970s • New Challenges: The Energy Crisis, Jimmy Carter, the Rise of the Evangelicals, and Cults (1970–1979) • Internal Divisions: Vietnam, Affirmative Action, Housing, Aid to Private Schools, and the Rights of Neo-Nazis (1970–1979) • Jewish Identity, the Women’s Movement, Intermarriage, and Soviet Jewry (1970–1980) • 1980–2006 • A Difficult Decade: Bitburg, Lebanon, Pollard, the Intifada, “Who Is a Jew?” Soviet Drop-Outs, and the Fall and Rise of AJC (1980–1990) • “The Global Jewish Committee”: AJC at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century • The Second Jewish Continuity Crisis, Pluralism, and Jewish Unity (1990–2006) • Appendix. American Jewish Committee Presidents, 1906–2006 • Notes •  Selected Bibliography • Index




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