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community

Post-Holocaust
Jewish Relations

"Jewish Cold War"
is historian's topic.

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t sounds like a familiar story:
Jewish liberalists clashing with
traditionalists. But in the after-
math of the Holocaust, the conflict
took on new dimensions.
"This time period is very significant
because Jews had to step back and eval-
uate the crisis that happened in Europe
said Susan A. Glenn, this year's David
W. Belin lecturer in American Jewish
Affairs, sponsored by the University
of Michigan's Jean & Samuel Frankel
Center for Judaic Studies. "There was
this sense of shock and uncertainty, and
people were having trouble assimilating
the enormity of it. It's a period when
American Jews realised they were the
largest Jewish community, and they
were responsible for sustaining the
Glenn is a history professor and facul-
ty affiliate in the Jewish studies program
at the University of Washington. She will
be speaking at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March
18, at U-M's Palmer Commons on "The
Jewish Cold War: Anxiety and Identity
in the Aftermath of the Holocaust." Her
talk will focus on how liberal Jewish
intellectuals fought with Jewish ethnic
particularists and nationalists in what
Glenn refers to as a "war of words."
`Jewish Cold War' is the term I use to
describe intra-Jewish identity debates in
the aftermath of World War II," Glenn
said. "This was a contentious and divi-
sive war of words about questions of
Jewish group loyalty, Jewish group sur-
vival and Jewish nationalism. This war
of words reflected and mobilized deep
ideological disagreements about who
had a right to speak for and as Jews, and
whether individual definitions of Jewish
identity —including ambivalence and
uncertainty — could be tolerated:'
"It will be exciting to hear Glenn
uncover some of the elements of Jews'
furious attacks on each other" during
this period, said Deborah Dash Moore,
U-M history professor and Frankel
Center director. "The Belin lecture
series is designed to bring an academic
perspective on pressing issues facing
American Jews:'
While her lecture will focus on Jewish
identity after the Holocaust, questions
about how Jews define themselves are
still relevant today.
"People have different stakes in what
Jewish identity means:' Glenn said.
"These contests are longstanding, are
very much alive today and probably
always will be."



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