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Pacifist to Padre : The World War II Memoir of Chaplain Roland B. Gittelsohn, December 1941-January 1946
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"Pacifist to Padre deftly threads so many elements of the World War II chaplaincy into a compelling and thoughtful narrative. It offers a personal window into a complex institution. It provides ins...
"Pacifist to Padre deftly threads so many elements of the World War II chaplaincy into a compelling and thoughtful narrative. It offers a personal window into a complex institution. It provides insight into the world of an unusual American space that has been naturalized as normal: of government-sponsored and managed religion. And it brings that world into focus from the vantage point of a man who never would have predicted pinning the Jewish chaplain's tablet insignia to his collar, a Jewish pacifist turned military padre"--
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- Creator
- Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Roland B. Gittelsohn (Chaplains Corps), U.S. Navy Reserve
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- Project MUSE Open Access ebooks
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- Books
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- English
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- Quantico, Virginia : Marine Corps University Press, 2020
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
- ©2020
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- 1 online resource
- ISBNs
- 1737040484, 9781737040484, 9781732003156, 1732003157
- OCLC
- on1267685058
- Open Access
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction / by Donald M. Bishop -- Introduction: what not to expect -- Pacifist no more -- I don't believe it! -- To be or not to be -- Recipe for chaplains -- What makes morale? -- Your friend away from home -- Your life-- in three minutes -- Am I a man or a machine? -- Where do we go from here? -- This is it, boys! -- Dear son -- Religion in uniform -- Atheists and foxholes -- Doggone it, chaplain! -- Brothers all? -- Black sand-- red blood -- Earth to earth -- Postscript:: Now I believe it! -- Appendices: Padre in hell, Leatherneck article -- Brothers all? Reconstructionist article -- Biographical sketch -- Chronology
Subjects
- Gittelsohn, Roland Bertram, 1910-1995.
- United States. Marine Corps. Marine Division, 5th -- Biography.
- United States. Marine Corps -- Chaplains -- Biography.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.
- Iwo Jima, Battle of, Japan, 1945 -- Personal narratives, American.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish.
- Military morale -- United States.
- Marines -- United States -- Psychology.
- Rabbis -- United States -- Biography.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Chaplains -- United States.