Author: Union of American Hebrew Congregations. Council
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Category : Judaism
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 606

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Author: Union of American Hebrew Congregations
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Languages : en
Pages : 1166

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Author: Jacob Rader Marcus
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814321867
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 1002

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Author: Central Conference of American Rabbis
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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 426

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Author: Jewish Theological Seminary Association
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Category : Rabbinical seminaries
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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Author: Michael A. Meyer
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814325551
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 518

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Reform Judaism is today one of the three major branches of the Jewish faith. This is a history of the Reform movement, tracing its changing configuration and self-understanding from the beginnings of modernisation in late 18th-century Jewish thought and practice to American renewal in the 1970s.

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Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Author: Arnold M. Eisen
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253114128
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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An exploration of how American Jewish thinkers grapple with the notion of being the isolated “Chosen People” in a nation that is a melting pot. What does it mean to be a Jew in America? What opportunities and what threats does the great melting pot represent for a group that has traditionally defined itself as “a people that must dwell alone?” Although for centuries the notion of “The Chosen People” sustained Jewish identity, America, by offering Jewish immigrants an unprecedented degree of participation in the larger society, threatened to erode their Jewish identity and sense of separateness. Arnold M. Eisen charts the attempts of American Jewish thinkers to adapt the notion of chosenness to an American context. Through an examination of sermons, essays, debates, prayer-book revisions, and theological literature, Eisen traces the ways in which American rabbis and theologians—Reconstructionist, Conservative, and Orthodox thinkers—effected a compromise between exclusivity and participation that allowed Jews to adapt to American life while simultaneously enhancing Jewish tradition and identity. “This is a book of extraordinary quality and importance. In tracing the encounter of Jews (the chosen people) and America (the chosen nation) . . . Eisen has given the American Jewish community a new understanding of itself.” —American Jewish Archives “One of the most significant books on American Jewish thought written in recent years.” —Choice

Author: American Jewish Committee
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Languages : en
Pages : 426

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