A Portrait of the American Jewish Community

Herausgeber: Chanes, Jerome A.; Schnall, David A.; Linzer, Norman

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This comprehensive picture explores the many issues confronting the American Jewish community today, including the desire to remain a distinct entity while also participating in the larger American culture.

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This comprehensive look at the Jewish American community at the turn of the 21st century explores the many issues emerican Jews and their organizations are confronting, and shows how the Jewish community responds so as to remain a distinct entity while also becoming a part of the larger American culture. The contributors investigate the complex issues facing the American Jewish community in 12 areas that are at the heart of the Jewish communal enterprise. This work will be of interest to students and scholars of Jewish studies and interfaith studies, to professionals in social work and social services, and to anyone interested in American communal dynamics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 533g
• ISBN-13: 9780275960223
• ISBN-10: 0275960226
• Artikelnr.: 21087688

Autorenporträt

NORMAN LINZER is the Samuel J. and Jean Sable Professor of Jewish Family Social Work, Wurzweiler School of Social Work at the Yeshiva University. DAVID J. SCHNALL is the Herbert H. Schiff Professor of Management and Administration at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work at Yeshiva University. JEROME A. CHANES, Program Director of the National Foundation of Jewish Culture, is also on the adjunct faculty of Yeshiva University's Wurzweiler School of Social Work. He is also a research fellow at the Center for Jewish Studies of the City University of New York's Graduate Center.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Introduction The Changing Nature of Jewish Identity America's
Challenge to Jewish Identity: A Historical Perspective on Voluntarism and
Assimilation The 1990 National Jewish Population Survey: Impact and
Implications The Jewish Communal-Service Arena The Jewish Federation: The
First Hundred Years Jewish Religion in America The Way We Are: Planning
Policy to Serve Contemporary Jewish Family Intermarriage: Three Views
Israel-Diaspora Relations After the Assassination: Can We Remain One
People? Jewish Involvement in the American Public-Affairs Agenda Cultural
Adaptation in Soviet-Jewish Resettlement: A Reciprocal Adjustment Process
Reengineering the Jewish Community Index