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In the 1930s, Rabbi Roland Gittelsohn was a distinguished scholar and vocal pacifist. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, he had a change of heart and volunteered to serve as a chaplain in the US Navy. The first rabbi ever deployed with the Marine Corps, he found himself in the bloody battle at Iwo Jima. At war's end at the dedication of the 5th Marine Division cemetery, he gave a renowned speech known as "the Gettysburg Address of World War II." This biography is based on multiple sources, including Gittelsohn's personal papers, beginning with his family's emigration from Russia to the United States. From the growing antiwar movement after World War I, to the training of military chaplains and the anti-Semitism among their ranks, important events further contextualize Gittelsohn's life, including his illustrious postwar career and service on President Harry S. Truman's Committee on Civil Rights.
Volume contains: 65 NY 89 (Place v. Minster) 65 NY 107 (Hildebrant v. Crawford) 65 NY 111 (Armour v. Mich. Cent. R.R. Co.) 65 NY 125 (Edwards v. Noyes) 65 NY 128 (Scott v. Delahunt) 65 NY 556 (Mamlok v. Franklin)
A brilliant student, orator, and debater, Rabbi Roland Gittelsohn was an outspoken social activist and frequent lecturer on political topics during the 1930s. Despite his passionate support of pacifism, Gittelsohn voluntarily joined the navy when the United States entered World War II, becoming the first Jewish chaplain assigned to the United States Marine Corps. Gittelsohn's remarkable story, told here from his surviving notes, chronicles the evolution of his crisis of conscience and gives an insider's view into the Battle of Iwo Jima. Author Lee Mandel's research provides an unprecedented look at how the US Navy took clergymen of all religions and molded them into a highly effective suppor...
Esta obra trata el tema de la homosexualidad poniendo enfasis en dos aspectos, el surgimiento de los homosexuales como una nueva minoria con su propia cultura, estilo de vida, movimiento politico, y reivindicacion de legitimidad; y por otra parte el impacto de esta minoria en la sociedad de su entorno. En un pais donde la gente se identifica mediante referencias de etnicidad y religion, no es sorprendente que los homosexuales se vean asimismos como un grupo etnico y pidan su reconocimiento.
Describes how many gay men were loners, alienated from their childhood and adolescent peers, and averse to male gender culture during that period of their lives. Out of that early differentness they devised varying solutions to their problems of alienation, some of which proved highly useful during adulthood for educational and occupational advancement ... Through being alienated from conventional male culture they were freed to devise or invent modified gender roles which contain varying mixtures of masculine and feminine culture and which were closer to their individual needs ... There are many and large differences between gay and non-gay men and these difference are seen largely in the area of culture rather than psychology.--From Pref.
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