Word: assimilationism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kosher Kitchens. The whole idea of assimilation has come to seem to some Reform Jews what it has always seemed to the Orthodox-the road to godlessness. Quietly symbolic of this reverse evolution is Rabbi Alexander Moshe Schindler, the roundish, cigar-smoking World War II ski trooper who was chosen...
Looping and chopping its way through the repertory of shorthand for the human face and figure that he himself had developed decades before, Picasso's brush encountered no resistances. The twisting and displacement of a torso or an ear, the mock-cubist overlapping and profiling related to nothing except...
A landmark in American comic writing, Portnoy is not the final assimilation of the American Jewish novel. It is a complete cannibalization of it into the American Jewish anti-novel. Isaac Singer may continue to write marvelous stories about immigrant Jews; Saul Bellow may continue to chant the prayer for...
* full assimilation of the Indian into American society would eliminate all Indian culture, or at least make it difficult to maintain;
"That program's based on that whole premise that people are what they look like, not what they really are," Tyree said. (Sharon Shelton, in charge of this program, had her picture appear recently in the Cambridge Chronicle. To the amazement of Saundra Graham and others, she was listed as...