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Front Matter -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Content -- Beginnings -- The Success Story of German Jews in America -- Americanizing Judaism: The Reform Movement -- The Ghetto as Bridge between Past and Future -- The Yiddish Theater and the Genesis of Cultural Consumerism -- Matching Power and Responsibility: The Jewish Labor Movement -- Is American Jewry Really Organized? -- A Problematic Synthesis: The Conservative Movement -- Israelism/Zionism: ANew Civil Religion -- Orthodox Judaism: A Problem Becomes a Prospect -- Anti-Semitism and the Anti-Semitic Imagination in America: Case Study-the Twenties -- American Power and Jewish Interest in Foreign Affairs -- Assessing Jewish Power in America: Case Study-the Holocaust -- Can American Jewry Survive? A Second Opinion -- Back Matter -- Index.

The struggle to remove the stigma of sickness surrounding same-sex love has a long history. In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its diagnostic classification of mental illness, but the groundwork for this pivotal decision was laid decades earlier. In this new study, Henry L. Minton looks back at the struggle of the American gay and lesbian activists who chose scientific research as a path for advancing homosexual rights. He traces the history of gay and lesbian emancipatory research from its early beginnings in the late nineteenth century to its role i

Reveals the powerful and undermining effects of stress on good decision making-and what leaders can do about it. The ability to make sound and timely decisions is the mark of a good leader. But when leaders with otherwise strong track records suddenly begin making poor decisions-as seen in the recent corporate scandals that rocked the business world-the impact can be widespread. In The Stress Effect, leadership expert Henry L. Thompson argues that stress is often the real culprit behind this leadership failure: when leaders' stress levels become sufficiently elevated-whether in the boardroom.

Historic seeds -- Setting the stage -- The curtain rises -- Jackson-Vanik : the elusive search for an economic lever -- Dropping out -- Of human rights -- The Soviet Jewry question during the Reagan years -- Free at last -- Afterthoughts

The struggle to remove the stigma of sickness surrounding same-sex love has a long history. In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its diagnostic classification of mental illness, but the groundwork for this pivotal decision was laid decades earlier. In this new study, Henry L. Minton looks back at the struggle of the American gay and lesbian activists who chose scientific research as a path for advancing homosexual rights. He traces the history of gay and lesbian emancipatory research from its early beginnings in the late nineteenth century to its role in cha.

One of America's most prominent historians probes the haunting question of why the efforts of the American government and Jewish leaders were ineffective in halting or mitigating Berlin's genocidal policy during the Holocaust. Focusing on the role of the Roosevelt administration and American Jewish leadership, Henry L. Feingold anchors the American reaction to the Holocaust in the tension-ridden domestic environment of the depression to the international scene. In these essays, he argues that the constraints of the American political system in the 1930s and 40s and the extraordinary events of the time virtually made it impossible for the administration and American Jews to react differently.