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Jews and the American religious landscape
Jews and the American Religious Landscapeexplores major complementary facets of American Judaism and Jewish life through a comprehensive analysis of contemporary demographic and sociological data. Focusing on the most important aspects of social development-geographic location, socioeconomic stratification, family dynamics, group identification, and political orientation-the volume adds empirical value to questions concerning the strengths of Jews as a religious and cultural group in America and the strategies they have developed to integrate successfully into a Christian society.
With advanced analyses of data gathered by the Pew Research Center,Jews and the American Religious Landscapeshows that Jews, like other religious and ethnic minorities, strongly identify with their religion and culture. Yet their particular religiosity, along with such factors as population dispersion, professional networks, and education, have created different outcomes in various contexts. Living under the influence of a Christian majority and a liberal political system has also cultivated a distinct ethos of solidarity and egalitarianism, enabling Judaism to absorb new patterns in ways that mirror its integration into American life. Rich in information thoughtfully construed, this book presents a remarkable portrait of what it means to be an American Jew today.
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This was America, 1865-1965 : unequal citizens in the segregated republic
\"By examining experiences of Jewish Americans in the hundred years between the American Civil War and the African American Civil Rights Revolution, this book focuses on citizens of the republic, each of whom usually spent their daily lives in black and white \"republican peoplehoods.\" In a Euro-American network of information moving freight, forced laborers, and paying passengers, some of the white ones, commanding the nation's \"public square,\" structured a segregated republic and capitalist society lasting during WWII. Then it was that the information network brought news about the war's genocidal Final Solution, about the Holocaust that murdered millions of Jews. This political economy sustained a hierarchy of privatized ethnic groups, whose race and religion, in their norms of \"ethnicking,\" was used to deprive them of legal and equal collective standing in the United States. \"This Was America\" is a book about those privatized identities that the years of the Civil Rights Revolution would bring into the public square of the nation's republic\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Speaking of Jews
Lila Corwin Berman asks why, over the course of the twentieth century, American Jews became increasingly fascinated, even obsessed, with explaining themselves to their non-Jewish neighbors. What she discovers is that language itself became a crucial tool for Jewish group survival and integration into American life. Berman investigates a wide range of sources—radio and television broadcasts, bestselling books, sociological studies, debates about Jewish marriage and intermarriage, Jewish missionary work, and more—to reveal how rabbis, intellectuals, and others created a seemingly endless array of explanations about why Jews were indispensable to American life. Even as the content of these explanations developed and shifted over time, the very project of self-explanation would become a core element of Jewishness in the twentieth century.
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Suburban Orthodoxy
Ashley Hales, in her assessment of the spiritual dangers of the suburbs for Christians, Finding Holy in the Suburbs: Living Faithfully in the Land of Too Much, asks a number of pointed questions, among them, \"do we even notice how the suburbs shape our souls?\"1 She asks if we should or should not feel guilty for our privilege and asks her readers to stop valuing ease over justice in thinking about what we really need and who needs it more.2 Emily P. Freeman, who wrote the forward to Hales' book, also prods readers: \"Are we bending our lives around the spaces we occupy, the things we acquire, the homes we build, and the positions we're climbing toward?\"3 She wants to know where God lives if we take up all the space with our stuff. An advertise-mentthat recentlyappeared in several Jewish magazines, unabashedly describes this phenomenon: \"You own a Porsche, a Yacht, and a Jet. 1 own a Kollel,\" followed by a list of advantages, like being able to name the Kollel and select its location, under the question, \"What makes it mine?\" While the idea of supporting Torah study is noble, the framing here suggests that this purchase comes after the prestige car and boat, and uses this kind of religious real estate to justify the other material indulgences/ There must be some things in this life that cannot be owned. A quick computer search found Suburban Orthodox Toras Chaim in Baltimore, and Suburban Torah Center in Livingston, N); North Suburban Synagogue Beth El of Highland Park and Northwest Suburban Chabad in Prairie View are located in the Chicago suburbs. Soccer moms and dads drive carpool and go to sports games and trot their children to other after-school activities.9 For many, these lifestyle images present an idyllic goal of personal fulfillment or the comfortable continuity of family life from generation to generation.
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A Half-Century (1970-2020) of the Social Scientific Study of Jewry: Reflections and Projections on Past, Present, and Future
I begin with a tribute to my professors at Gratz College and Temple University in Philadelphia (1960-1966), at Hebrew University and Hay im Greenberg College in Jerusalem (1962-1963), and at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis (1966-1969), as well as to my colleagues and co-authors; and I follow with five substantive points: 1. An assessment of the past versus the present of the social scientific study of Jewry is offered, for which I note that the way to understand the social and religious adjustments of American Jews is to examine their economic and political adjustments first. 2. The changes across a 50-year time span of ASSJ as a professional organization are charted and reveal that between 1970 and 2020 the organization had more than tripled in size, became much more gender-balanced, and initiated ajournai (Contemporary Jewry), which published dozens of articles in the latest 3-year cycle. 3. Grounds for optimism versus pessimism in viewing the future of American Jewry are examined as follows: (a) Antisemitism is increasing, but Jews are the most warmly regarded US religious group. (b) Interfaith marriage continues, but a majority of children are receiving a Jewish upbringing. (c) The religious \"nones\" are growing, but the great majority of them feel proud to be Jewish. (d) Geographic mobility and residential dispersion continue, but new means of internet connections are growing. 4. Recommendations for the future of the social scientific study of US Jewry are offered. 5. Recommendations for the future of ASSJ are suggested. Finally, I end with a personal tribute to my family and finish with a quote from the Talmud. \"Scholars increase peace in the world,\" and conclude with this praise: \"To scholars and to peace!\"
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Abi Gezunt
This book consists of a series of investigations into the cultural and behavioral patterns of east European immigrant Jews known to promote health and prevent disease beginning in the late 19th and into the 20th centuries.
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What the Rabbis Said
What the Rabbis Said examines a relatively unexplored facet of the rich social history of nineteenth-century American Jews. Based on sources that have heretofore been largely neglected, it traces the sermons and other public statements of rabbis, both Traditionalists and Reformers, on a host of matters that engaged the Jewish community before 1900. Reminding the reader of the complexities and diversity that characterized the religious congregations in nineteenth-century America, Cohen offers insight into the primary concerns of both the religious leaders and the laity—full acculturation to American society, modernization of the Jewish religious tradition, and insistence on the recognized equality of a non-Christian minority. She also discusses the evolution of denominationalism with the split between Traditionalism and Reform, the threat of antisemitism, the origins of American Zionism, and interreligious dialogue. The book concludes with a chapter on the professionalization of the rabbinate and the legacy bequeathed to the next century. On all those key issues rabbis spoke out individually or in debates with other rabbis. From the evidence presented, the congregational rabbi emerges as a pioneer, the leader of a congregation, as well as spokesman for the Jews in the larger society, forging an independence from his European counterparts, and laboring for the preservation of the Jewish faith and heritage in an unfamiliar environment.
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The Wandering Jew in America
Provides a thorough description and analysis of the multifaceted nature of Jewish internal migration in the United States. Using data from the 1990 and 2000 NJPS, and through up-to-date approaches in the social sciences, this traces changes in the levels, directions, and types of Jewish migration, evaluating the changing social and economic characteristics of the migrants.
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The New Jewish Leaders
By the end of the twentieth century, a new generation of leaders had begun to assume positions of influence within established organizations. They quickly launched a slew of new initiatives directed at their age peers. Born during the last quarter of the twentieth century, these leaders came of age in a very different America and a different Jewish world than earlier generations. Not surprisingly, their worldview and understanding of Jewish issues set them apart from their elders, as does their approach to organizing. Based upon extensive interviews and survey research, as well as an examination of the websites frequented by younger Jews and personal observation of their programs, The New Jewish Leaders presents a pioneering account of the renewal of American Jewish community. This book describes how younger Jews organize, relate to collective Jewish efforts, and think about current Jewish issues. It also offers a glimpse of how they re-envision American Jewish communal arrangements. What emerges is a fascinating exploration of Jewish community in America today-and tomorrow.
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