CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Buyon, Noah Daniel |
|---|---|
| Title | "A Cacophony of Voices": American Jewish Power Politics and the 1974 Jackson-Vanik Amendment |
| Summary | The enactment of the 1974 Jackson-Vanik Amendment is held up in the historiography as the outcome of a successful lobbying effort by the Soviet Jewry Movement, a mobilization of the “Jewish community” in America on behalf of its beleaguered kin in the U.S.S.R. In fact, as this thesis argues, the amendment saga implicated several Jewish communities in America, which brought differing and sometimes competing diasporic identities into the political arena. Through primary source analysis, this thesis foregrounds the “cacophony of voices” drowned out by the groupist paradigm of the “Jewish community” favored by both participants in and scholars of the Soviet Jewry Movement. In doing so, it highlights how various factions of politically-active Jews understood their social position in Cold War America — and how their self-understandings constrained their ability or willingness to advance what was seen as a particular Jewish interest. |
| Supervisor | Miller, Michael L. |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/buyon_noah.pdf |
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