Jewish Options
Pluralistic Identities in 21st Century America
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Beschreibung
This book offers an examination of an expanding set of options for being Jewish in contemporary American society. It examines the evolution of Jewish identity across five epochs of Jewish civilization as well as the transformation of the American Jewish experience across four centuries. In addition, an institutional history and a geographic, demographic, and religious profile of American Jews are presented, including an outline of contemporary Jewish options to express Jewish identity in twenty-first century America. Readers will gain an understanding of how these options developed via the provision of a socio-historical and a social scientific analysis of each option in one integrated volume. The book also discusses contemporary challenges to the continuity of American Jewish community and identity including the issues of education, interfaith marriage, and philanthropy.
This book offers an examination of an expanding set of options for being Jewish in contemporary American society. It examines the evolution of Jewish identity across five epochs of Jewish civilization as well as the transformation of the American Jewish experience across four centuries. In addition, an institutional history and a geographic, demographic, and religious profile of American Jews are presented, including an outline of contemporary Jewish options to express Jewish identity in twenty-first century America. Readers will gain an understanding of how these options developed via the provision of a socio-historical and a social scientific analysis of each option in one integrated volume. The book also discusses contemporary challenges to the continuity of American Jewish community and identity including the issues of education, interfaith marriage, and philanthropy.
Jewish Options include Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, Just Jewish, Zionist, Secular Includes in-depth descriptions of the history of each Jewish option facilitating comparisons between the options Combines historical, demographic, and sociological material resulting in a unique perspective on American Jewry
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Arnold Dashefsky
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Orthodox Jews Conservative Jewish Reform Jews Zionism and Secularity Just Jewish Jewish identity Jewish politics American Jewish history
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“This thoroughly researched and encyclopedic book … is very much a companion to the same authors’ epic work on the annual American Jewish Year Book. … is rather unique for a contemporary publication in being particularly well illustrated with photographs, colored maps and charts, and a vast collection of neatly organized tables of data drawn from recent national and local community surveys of Jewish Americans.” (Barry A. Kosmin, Contemporary Jewry, April 2, 2025)
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