Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: "Kultur Klux Klan or Cultural Pluralism"
1. The Harvard Menorah Society and the Menorah Idea
2. The Intercollegiate Menorah Association and the "Jewish Invasion" of American Colleges
3. Cultural Pluralism and Its Critics
4. Jewish Studies in an American Setting
5. A Pluralist History and Culture
6. Pluralism in Fiction
Epilogue: "The Promise of the Menorah Idea"
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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How Jewish students promoted diversity in American culture

About the Author

Daniel Greene is Director of the Dr. William M. Scholl Center for American History and Culture at the Newberry Library in Chicago and a former curator and historian at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

Reviews

"The Jewish Origins of Cultural Pluralism illuminates our understanding of American-Jewish culture and what we call the American experience. It is a grand study of the IMA's [Intercollegiate Menorah Association] enduring achievements." American Jewish Archives Journal "Greene makes visible the Jewish strand of a larger American story, an intervention that will help readers to better understand how and why the concept of cultural pluralism came about in the way it did... It adds in important ways to the conversation about racial and ethnic differences and the way they have been understood in American culture." Eric Goldstein, Emory University