The new Jewish leaders
Subtitle: reshaping the American Jewish landscape
By: edited by Jack Wertheimer
Series: Brandeis series in American Jewish history, culture, and life
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Waltham, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781611681833; 9781611681840
Subjects: Judaism; Jews; Young adults; Ethnic relations; Jewish leadership; Attitudes; Social conditions; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mapping the scene: how younger Jewish adults engage with Jewish community / Jack Wertheimer; title: From Jewish people to Jewish purpose: establishment leaders and their non-establishment successors / Steven M. Cohen; title: Expressive, progressive, and protective: three impulses for innovative organizing among young Jews today / Steven M. Cohen; title: Young Jewish leaders in Los Angeles: strengthening the Jewish people in conventional and unconventional ways / Sarah Bunin Benor; title: Reimagining Jewishness: younger American Jewish leaders, entrepreneurs, and artists in cultural context / Sylvia Barack Fishman, with Rachel S. Bernstein and Emily Sigalow; title: The reality of the virtual: looking for Jewish leadership online / Ari Y. Kelman; title: In its own image: independent philanthropy and the cultivation of young Jewish leadership / Shaul Kelner.