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"Taken as a whole, this volume represents a major contribution to a growing body of literature precipitated, in part, by the findings of significant levels of intermarriage, assimilation, and apostasy found in NJPS 1990 . . . this volume is of high quality, and will provide the reader with new insights into the contemporary Jewish experience in America." -- American Jewish History
Book Description
Exploring the ongoing adaptation of the American Jewish population as it responds to the challenge of American life, this interdisciplinary collection offers a wide-ranging examination of the personal, social, religious, and political aspects of contemporary American Jewish life. Essays representing the most recent scholarship in sociology and related fields address a range of topics, including feminism, spirituality, intermarriage, antisemitism, and community. Emphasizing the changing patterns of conflict and accommodation resulting from the interaction of American and Jewish values, Jews in America will interest anyone concerned with Jewish identity and continuity in the 21st century.
CONTRIBUTORS: Steven Bayme, Jerome Chanes, Carmel Ullman Chiswick, Steven M. Cohen, Sergio DellaPergola, Daniel J. Elazar, Sylvia Barack Fishman, Jerome S. Legge, Jr., Charles S. Liebman, Peter Y. Medding, Uzi Rebhun, Mordechai Rimor, Haym Soloveitchik, Gary A. Tobin, Mark Tolts, Jack Wertheimer, and the editors
Jews in America: A Contemporary Reader (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life)
Jews in America: A Contemporary Reader (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life),Roberta Rosenberg Farber,Chaim I. Waxman,Brandeis University Press,0874518997,20th century,Jewish - General,Jews,Judaism,Literature: Classics,Minority Studies - Ethnic American,Social conditions,Sociology,United States,United States - 20th Century,21st century,Cultural studies,Jewish studies
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