The Cambridge companion to American Judaism /edited by Dana Evan Kaplan.
Description
From preservation to innovation : Judaism in America, 1654-1880 / Eli Faber -- The reshaping of American Judaism, 1880-1945 / Lloyd P. Gartner -- Trends in American Judaism from 1945 to the present / Dana Evan Kaplan -- Denominationalism in American Judaism / Lawrence Grossman -- Patterns of American Jewish religious behavior / Chaim Waxman -- Thinking Judaism through : Jewish theology in America / Byron L. Sherwin -- The essence of American Judaism / Charles Liebman -- Contemporary Jewish education / Isa Aron -- The place of Judaism in American Jewish identity / Debra Renee Kaufman -- The Holocaust in Jewish American life / Lynn Rapaport -- Long distance nationalism : Zionism, Israel and American Jews / Steven Rosenthal -- Life cycle rituals : rites of passage in American Judaism / Rela Mintz Geffen -- Choosing lives: evolving gender roles in American Jewish families / Sylvia Barack Fishman -- The body and sexuality in American Jewish culture / David Biale -- The American Jewish urban experience / Nathan Glazer -- "Sacred survival" revisited : American Jewish civil religion in the new millennium / Jonathan Woocher -- Judaism and democracy in America / Alan Mittleman -- The economics of American Judaism / Carmel U. Chiswick -- American Judaism and interfaith dialogue / Yaakov Ariel -- American midrash : urban Jewish writing & the reclaiming of Judaism / Murray Baumgarten -- Recent trends in new American Jewish music / Mark Kligman -- The visual arts in the American Jewish experience / Matthew Baigell -- Present and future tense : American Judaism in the 21st century / Bruce Phillips.
xxvi, 462 p. ;23 cm.
Book Details
Place Published
City
Cambridge, UK ;New York, NY
Date Published
2005
Publication Subjects
Judaism--United States.
Call No.
BM205 .C35 2005
ISBN
0521822041 (casebound), 0521529514 (pbk.)
LCCN
2004024336
Notes
Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 423-432) and index.