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THE PERIL OF ACCEPTANCE:
AMERICAN JEWRY ASSIMILATION TRENDS 60 YEARS AFTER THE HOLOCAUST
by
Lara Shellene Berman
A Professional Project Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF ARTS
(BROADCAST JOURNALISM)
May 2008
Copyright 2008 Lara Shellene Berman
Object Description
| Title | The peril of acceptance: American Jewry assimilation trends 60 years after the holocaust |
| Author | Berman, Lara Shellene |
| Author email | lara.berman@sbcglobal.net |
| Degree | Master of Arts |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Journalism (Broadcast Journalism) |
| School | Annenberg School for Communication |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-04-01 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2008-05-06 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Cray, Ed |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Kotler, Jonathan Gillerman, Sharon |
| Abstract | Jews have always been aware of persecutions and historically have clung together as a community to pass their culture from one generation to the next.; In contemporary America, however, Jews rarely experience prejudice due to their religious identity. Rather, Jews are so fully integrated into American life that they have intermarried, the associated stigma in secular America so imperceptible.; But now that American Jews finally enjoy a quality of life defined by acceptance and equality, many have chosen to move away from the religion they are at last free to practice.; The Holocaust still a recent memory, some Jews fear that this assimilation presents a threat greater than the violent annihilations of the camps. It is extermination by choice.; America's acceptance has caused Jews, in these early years of the 21st century, to wonder why they should preserve Judaism and Jewish culture. If assimilation is the ultimate approval, why should they resist it? What of Jewish culture must survive? The answers to these questions, as the following profiles of three children of Holocaust survivors attest, arise viscerally; the answers are personal, even primal, each a unique expression attempting to define what it means to be a Jew. |
| Keyword | Jewish; second generation; assimilation; Holocaust |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Coverage date | circa 2008 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1231 |
| Rights | Berman, Lara Shellene |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Berman-20080506 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume40/etd-Berman-20080506.pdf |
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| Full text | THE PERIL OF ACCEPTANCE: AMERICAN JEWRY ASSIMILATION TRENDS 60 YEARS AFTER THE HOLOCAUST by Lara Shellene Berman A Professional Project Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS (BROADCAST JOURNALISM) May 2008 Copyright 2008 Lara Shellene Berman |
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