Issues Troubling America: What Involvement for the American Jewish Community?


 

Publication Date: September 1974

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Joseph B. Robison

Research Area: Politics

Keywords: Demography; Political behavior; Community Relations

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

The author explores the political values of the American Jewish community and the effect of recent trends and events on those views. The author asserts that increasing economic success and decreasing discrimination against Jews in education and employment might lead some Jews to move to the right politically, but points to other trends and factors (including the Watergate scandal) that may push American Jews back to the left. Ultimately, the author argues, Jews are likely to return to valuing the same ultimate priorities that they did in the 1950s and 60s.