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- Title
Reuben Cohen Comes of Age: American Jewish Youth and the Lived Experience of Cultural Pluralism in the 1920s.
- Authors
GREENE, DANIEL
- Abstract
The article presents an examination into the socio-cultural experiences and conditions of American Jewish youth during the 1920s, particularly focusing on how they engaged with their Jewish identity and the larger non-Jewish communities in their college years. Introductory details are given citing statistics of increased Jewish American participation in higher education during the period. Discussion of the experiences and challenges facing Jewish youth at the time is led through analysis of the idealized fictitious character of Reuben Cohen, a Jewish young adult going through college created by Jewish Colombia professor Irwin Edman.
- Subjects
UNITED States; JEWISH youth; JEWISH college students; YOUNG adults; AMERICAN Jews; EDMAN, Irwin; COMING of age; CULTURAL pluralism; UNIVERSITIES &; colleges; SOCIAL history; RELIGIOUS life
- Publication
American Jewish History, 2009, Vol 95, Issue 2, p157
- ISSN
0164-0178
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/ajh.2009.0000