| Description |
1 online resource (x, 381 pages) : illustrations, facsimile, portraits |
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The modern jewish experience |
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Modern Jewish experience (Bloomington, Ind.)
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| Contents |
Prologue : within the wide tent of a Bronx Orthodox congregation, circa 1960 -- All alone and out of control -- American challenges and Jewish challengers -- Religious dilemmas of a treif land -- Strategies of New York's Orthodox activists -- Crisis and compromise -- Brooklyn's committed communities -- A more faithful following -- Comfortable and courted -- Orthodox vs. Orthodox -- Open and closed to feminism -- Epilogue : the tentative Orthodox of the twenty-first century |
| Summary |
Jeffrey S. Gurock recounts the history of Orthodox Jews in America, from the time of the early arrivals in the 17th century to the present, and examines how Orthodox Jewish men and women coped with the personal, familial, and communal challenges of religious freedom, economic opportunity, and social integration. --from publisher description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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National Jewish Book Awards (nominated), 2010 |
| Subject |
University of South Alabama |
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Orthodox Judaism -- United States -- History
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Jews -- United States -- History
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Jews -- United States -- Social life and customs
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RELIGION -- Judaism -- Orthodox.
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Jews
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Jews -- Social life and customs
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Orthodox Judaism
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Orthodoxes Judentum
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United States
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USA
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780253002921 |
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0253002923 |
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1282103342 |
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9781282103344 |
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9786612103346 |
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6612103345 |
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