Lessons from history
Subtitle: Jewish adjustments to new realities
By: S. David Sperling ... [et al.].
Contributors: Sperling, S. David.; Adler Family Foundation
Series: Occasional papers in Jewish history and thought,; no. 5; Occasional papers in Jewish history and thought (Hunter College. Jewish Social Studies Program) ;; no. 5.
Publisher: Hunter College of the City University of New York
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 72
Subjects: Judaism -- 20th century -- Congresses.; Judaism -- United States -- Congresses.; Jews -- History -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 64-72)
Pref. by Rabbi Judith S. Lewis; introd. by Robert M. Seltzer.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to part I: Three eras of transformation in Jewish history / Robert M. Seltzer; title: Where do we come from; where do we go? / S. David Sperling; title: The Hellenistic crucible of Rabbinic Judaism and its modern parallels / Robert Goldenberg; title: Haskalah as the modernist quest for Judaism / Emanuel S. Goldsmith; title: Introduction to part II: Three studies on the interplay between the present and the past / Robert M. Seltzer; title: Early Islam and the Jews / Susan A. Spectorsky; title: The American synagogue yesterday, today, and tomorrow / Marc Lee Raphael; title: Christian appropriation of Passover: Jewish responses then and now / Michael J. Cook.