American Jewish Orthodoxy in historical perspective /
American freedom, opportunity and voluntarism has created challenges to the traditional faith and practice of all religious denominations. Jeffrey S. Gurock's pathbreaking work on the history of Jewish Orthodoxy in America has identified and explored the many ways that one religious group respo...
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Hoboken, NJ :
KTAV Pub. House,
1996.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Historiographical Context
- 1. Resisters and Accommodators: Varieties of Orthodox Rabbis in America, 1886-1983
- 2. The Orthodox Synagogue
- 3. How "Frum" Was Rabbi Jacob Joseph's Court? Americanization Within the Lower East Side's Orthodox Elite, 1886-1902
- 4. American Orthodox Organizations in Support of Zionism, 1880-1930
- 5. Jacob A. Riis: Christian Friend or Missionary Foe: Two Jewish Views
- 6. Jewish Communal Divisiveness in Response to Christian Influences on the Lower East Side, 1900-1910
- 7. Why Albert Lucas Did Not Serve in the New York Kehillah
- 8. In Search of the Other Jewish Center: On the Writing of the Social History of American Orthodoxy, 1900-1918
- 9. From Exception to Role Model: Bernard Drachman and the Evolution of Jewish Religious Life in America, 1880-1920
- 10. A Generation Unaccounted For in American Judaism
- 11. Time, Place, and Movement in Immigrant Jewish Historiography
- 12. A Stage in the Emergence of the Americanized Synagogue among East European Jews: 1890-1910
- 13. Consensus Building and Conflict over Creating the Young People's Synagogue of the Lower East Side
- 14. The Winnowing of American Orthodoxy
- 15. The Ramaz Version of American Orthodoxy.