Pacifism

This dissertation explores discourses, actions, and forms of Jewish pacifism in Weimar Germany. In a period of burgeoning German and international pacifist activity, Jews as pacifists were involved in Jewish-identified, secular, feminist, and predominantly male pacifist organiza…

This study explored the cognitive consequences of making conflicting belief systems conscious. It was hypothesized that American Jewish adults faced a conflict of values between their pacifistic and Zionistic beliefs when confronted with Israel's often violent reactions to the P…

This dissertation argues that Gandhian nonviolence (satyagraha ) only took root in the American pacifist community after a process of adaptation and modification. Reflecting their background in Social Gospel Christianity and progressivism, pacifists were initially reluctant to a…