Religion And State In The American Jewish Experience

Author : Jonathan D. Sarna
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Press
ISBN 13 : 9780268016548
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and State in the American Jewish Experience written by Jonathan D. Sarna and published by University of Notre Dame Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text focuses on what it means to be Jewish in America and the different positions held within the Jewish community on past and present church-state issues - whether Orthodox Jews in the military should wear yarmulkes while in uniform - and if Jewish prisoners have a right to Kosher food.

Author : Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Center for the Study of the American Jewish Experience
Publisher : Holmes & Meier Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780841909342
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Jewish Experience written by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Center for the Study of the American Jewish Experience and published by Holmes & Meier Publishers. This book was released on 1986 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Center for the Study of the American Jewish Experience
Publisher : Holmes & Meier Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Jewish Experience written by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Center for the Study of the American Jewish Experience and published by Holmes & Meier Publishers. This book was released on 1986 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jonathan D. Sarna
Publisher : Holmes & Meier Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780841913943
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Jewish Experience written by Jonathan D. Sarna and published by Holmes & Meier Pub. This book was released on 1997-09-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Arthur Hertzberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Being Jewish in America written by Arthur Hertzberg and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Seltzer
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814739571
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Americanization of the Jews written by Robert Seltzer and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1995-02-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Judaism, a religion so often defined by its minority status, attain equal footing in the trinity of Catholicism, Protestantism, and Judaism that now dominates modern American religious life? THE AMERICANIZATION OF THE JEWS seeks out the effects of this evolution on both Jews in America and an America with Jews. Although English, French, and Dutch Jewries are usually considered the principal forerunners of modern Jewry, Jews have lived as long in North America as they have in post- medieval Britain and France and only sixty years less than in Amsterdam. As one of the four especially creative Jewish communities that has helped re-shape and re-formulate modern Judaism, American Judaism is the most complex and least understood. German Jewry is recognized for its contribution to modern Jewish theology and philosophy, Russian and Polish Jewry is known for its secular influence in literature, and Israel clearly offers Judaism a new stance as a homeland. But how does one capture the interplay between America and Judaism? Immigration to America meant that much of Judaism was discarded, and much was retained. Acculturation did not always lead to assimilation: Jewishness was honed as an independent variable in the motivations of many of its American adherents- -and has remained so, even though Jewish institutions, ideologies, and even Jewish values have been reshaped by America to such an degree that many Jews of the past might not recognize as Jewish some of what constitutes American Jewishness. This collection of essays explores the paradoxes that abound in the America/Judaism relationship, focusing on such specific issues as Jews and American politics in the twentieth century, the adaptation of Jewish religious life to the American environment, the contributions and impact of the women's movement, and commentaries on the Jewish future in America.

Author : Alan Mittleman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742521247
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jews and the American Public Square written by Alan Mittleman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jews and the American Public Square is a study of how Jews have grappled with the presence of religion, both their own and others, in American public life. It surveys historical Jewish approaches to church-state relations and analyzes Jewish responses to the religion clauses of the First Amendment. The book also explores how the contemporary sociological and political characteristics of American Jews bear on their understanding of the public dimensions of American religion. In addition to a descriptive and analytic approach. the volume is also critical and polemical. Its contributors attack and defend prevailing views, raise critical questions about the political and intellectual positions favored by American Jews, and propose new syntheses. This book captures the current mood of the Jewish community: both committed to the separation of church and state and perplexed about its scope and application. It provides the necessary background for a principled reconsideration of the problem of religion in the public square.

Author : Gerald Sorin
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801854460
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tradition Transformed written by Gerald Sorin and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1997-04-18 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sorin argues that, from colonial times to the present, "acculturation" and not "assimilation" has best described the experience of Jewish Americans.

Author : David G. Dalin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Jews & the Separationist Faith written by David G. Dalin and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past half century, most American Jews believed that religion should be rigorously separated from public life. Forty Jewish writers, professors, lawyers, rabbis, and policy analysts offer varying perspectives on what the role of religion in American publish life should be and describe how their opinions might have changed. Postponed from June.

Author : Jack Wertheimer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691202516
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New American Judaism written by Jack Wertheimer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies—an engaging firsthand portrait of American Judaism today American Judaism has been buffeted by massive social upheavals in recent decades. Like other religions in the United States, it has witnessed a decline in the number of participants over the past forty years, and many who remain active struggle to reconcile their hallowed traditions with new perspectives—from feminism and the LGBTQ movement to "do-it-yourself religion" and personally defined spirituality. Taking a fresh look at American Judaism today, Jack Wertheimer, a leading authority on the subject, sets out to discover how Jews of various orientations practice their religion in this radically altered landscape. Which observances still resonate, and which ones have been given new meaning? What options are available for seekers or those dissatisfied with conventional forms of Judaism? And how are synagogues responding? Offering new and often-surprising answers to these questions, Wertheimer reveals an American Jewish landscape that combines rash disruption and creative reinvention, religious illiteracy and dynamic experimentation.