The Jewish Origins of Cultural Pluralism: The Menorah Association and American Diversity (The Modern Jewish Experience)

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Daniel Greene traces the emergence of the theory of cultural pluralism to the lived experiences of a group of Jewish college students and public intellectuals, including the philosopher Horace M. Kallen. These young Jews faced particular challenges as they sought to integrate themselves into the American academy and literary world of the early 20th century. At Harvard University, they founded an influential student organization referred to as the Menorah Association in 1906 and later the Menorah Journal, which was a number one voice of Jewish public opinion within the 1920s. In accordance with the concept that the American melting pot would erase all cultural differences, the Menorah Association advocated a pluralist The us that may accommodate a thriving Jewish culture at the same time as bringing Jewishness into mainstream American life.


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