Jewish continuity in America
Subtitle: creative survival in a free society
By: Abraham J. Karp.
Series: Judaic studies series; Judaic studies series (Unnumbered)
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
Subjects: Judaism -- United States -- History.; Judaism -- History -- Modern period, 1750-; Rabbis -- United States.; Conservative Judaism -- United States -- History.
Description: Abraham J. Karp's Jewish Continuity in America focuses on the three major sources of American Judaism's continuing vitality: the synagogue, the rabbinate, and Jewish religious pluralism. Particularly illuminating is Karp's examination of the coexistence and unity-in-diversity of American religious Jewry's three divisions - Orthodox, Reform and Conservative - and of how this Jewish religious pluralism fits into the larger picture of American religious pluralism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The synagogue in America : a historical typology; title: The Americanization of Congregation Beth Israel, Rochester; title: Expanding the parameters of the rabbinate : Isaac Leeser of Philadelphia; title: From campus to pulpit : Simon Tuska of Rochester; title: American rabbis for America : Solomon Schechter comes to the seminary; title: New York chooses a chief rabbi : Jacob Joseph of Vilna; title: The tripartite division : how it came to be; title: Century of conservative Judaism.