Author: Rabbinical Assembly of America
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Category : Conservative Judaism
Languages : en
Pages : 197

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Author: Rabbinical Assembly of America
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Category : Conservative Judaism
Languages : en
Pages : 107

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Author: Louis Finkelstein
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Languages : en
Pages : 107

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Author: Jacob Rader Marcus
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780881250763
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Author: Jeffrey S. Gurock
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415919265
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 486

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Author: Jeffrey S. Gurock
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253111609
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Judaism's Encounter with American Sports examines how sports entered the lives of American Jewish men and women and how the secular values of sports threatened religious identification and observance. What do Jews do when a society -- in this case, a team -- "chooses them in," but demands commitments that clash with ancestral ties and practices? Jeffrey S. Gurock uses the experience of sports to illuminate an important mode of modern Jewish religious conflict and accommodation to America. He considers the defensive strategies American Jewish leaders have employed in response to sports' challenges to identity, such as using temple and synagogue centers, complete with gymnasiums and swimming pools, to attract the athletically inclined to Jewish life. Within the suburban frontiers of post--World War II America, sports-minded modern Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform rabbis competed against one another for the allegiances of Jewish athletes and all other Americanized Jews. In the present day, tensions among Jewish movements are still played out in the sports arena. Today, in a mostly accepting American society, it is easy for sports-minded Jews to assimilate completely, losing all regard for Jewish ties. At the same time, a very tolerant America has enabled Jews to succeed in the sports world, while keeping faith with Jewish traditions. Gurock foregrounds his engaging book against his own experiences as a basketball player, coach, and marathon runner. By using the metaphor of sports, Judaism's Encounter with American Sports underscores the basic religious dilemmas of our day.

Author: Rabbinical Assembly of America
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Category : Judaism
Languages : en
Pages : 836

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Author: Marc Lee Raphael
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231132239
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 499

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This collection focuses on a variety of important themes in the American Jewish and Judaic experience. It opens with essays on early Jewish settlers (1654-1820), the expansion of Jewish life in America (1820-1901), the great wave of eastern European Jewish immigrants (1880-1924), the character of American Judaism between the two world wars, American Jewish life from the end of World War II to the Six-Day War, and the growth of Jews' influence and affluence. The second half of the volume includes essays on Orthodox Jews, the history of Jewish education in America, the rise of Jewish social clubs at the turn of the century, the history of southern and western Jewry, Jewish responses to Nazism and the Holocaust, feminism's confrontation with Judaism, and the eternal question of what defines American Jewish culture. Original and elegantly crafted, The Columbia History of Jews and Judaism in America not only introduces the student to a thrilling history, but also provides the scholar with new perspectives and insights.

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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 684

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Category : Synagogue architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 1112

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