A Chosen People in a Pluralist Nation: Horace Kallen and the Jewish-American Experience

This article examines the ways that ethnic pluralism and Jewish exceptionalism coexisted in philosopher Horace M. Kallen’s thought from the time that Jewish identity began to play a significant and positive role in his own self-conception, roughly in 1900, until his coining of “cultural pluralism” i...

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Main Author: Greene, Daniel (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Cambridge University Press [2006]
In: Religion and American culture
Year: 2006, Volume: 16, Issue: 2, Pages: 161-193
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