TY - BOOK AU - Barnett,Michael N. TI - The Star and the Stripes: A History of the Foreign Policies of American Jews SN - 9780691165974 AV - E184.36.P64 B37 2018 U1 - 973.04924 23 PY - 2016///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Jews KW - United States KW - Attitudes KW - Politics and government KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship KW - bisacsh KW - 1948 KW - American Jewry KW - American Jews KW - American power KW - Holocaust KW - Israel KW - Jewish Problem KW - Jewish Question KW - Jewish identity KW - Jewish state KW - Jewishness KW - Prophetic Judaism KW - Six-Day War KW - Universal Declaration of Human Rights KW - Zionism KW - acculturation KW - anti-Semitism KW - cosmopolitanism KW - foreign policy KW - human rights KW - humanitarianism KW - liberalism KW - nationalism KW - non-Orthodox Jewry KW - persecution KW - pluralism KW - political identity KW - political theology KW - post-war period KW - prophetic Judaism KW - redemption KW - religious freedom KW - rule of law KW - social justice movements KW - suffering KW - tribalism N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Chapter One. Heine's Law and Jewish Foreign Policies --; Chapter Two. The Making of a Prophetic People (pre-1914) --; Chapter Three. Prophets Mugged by Reality (1914-1945) --; Chapter Four. The Cosmopolitan and the National (1945-1967) --; Chapter Five. The New Tribalism (1967-1990) --; Chapter Six. Back to the Future? (1990-present) --; Chapter Seven. The Foreign Policies of an Uncertain People --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - How do American Jews envision their role in the world? Are they tribal-a people whose obligations extend solely to their own? Or are they prophetic-a light unto nations, working to repair the world? The Star and the Stripes is an original, provocative interpretation of the effects of these worldviews on the foreign policy beliefs of American Jews since the nineteenth century. Michael Barnett argues that it all begins with the political identity of American Jews. As Jews, they are committed to their people's survival. As Americans, they identify with, and believe their survival depends on, the American principles of liberalism, religious freedom, and pluralism. This identity and search for inclusion form a political theology of prophetic Judaism that emphasizes the historic mission of Jews to help create a world of peace and justice.The political theology of prophetic Judaism accounts for two enduring features of the foreign policy beliefs of American Jews. They exhibit a cosmopolitan sensibility, advocating on behalf of human rights, humanitarianism, and international law and organizations. They also are suspicious of nationalism-including their own. Contrary to the conventional wisdom that American Jews are natural-born Jewish nationalists, Barnett charts a long history of ambivalence; this ambivalence connects their early rejection of Zionism with the current debate regarding their attachment to Israel. And, Barnett contends, this growing ambivalence also explains the rising popularity of humanitarian and social justice movements among American Jews.Rooted in the understanding of how history shapes a political community's sense of the world, The Star and the Stripes is a bold reading of the past, present, and possible future foreign policies of American Jews UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400880607?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400880607 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400880607.jpg ER -