Transforming Philanthropy: Finance and Institutional Evolution at the Jewish Federation of New York, 1917-86.
At the beginning of the 1970s, the Jewish Federation of New York underwent a rapid ideological transition from a politics of assimilation to a politics of ethnic survival. Whereas previous treatments of the survivalist turn have focused on cultural change, this article offers an explanation rooted i...
| Publicado en: | Jewish Social Studies Vol. 22; no. 2; pp. 146 - 196 |
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