Jews in the Center
Subtitle: Conservative Synagogues and Their Members
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: July 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 407
ISBN-13: 9780813528212
Subjects: Jewish studies; Judaism; Religion - Judaism; Religion; USA; Social life and customs; Judaism - Conservative; Jews; 20th century; Conservative Judaism; United States
First sentence: For many years, pessimism and disappointment have characterized the feelings of many Conservative Jewish leaders toward their own movement.
Description: "This study of Conservative Jews examines the largest movement of synagogue-affiliated Jews in the United States, a group equal in size to the combined membership of Reform and Orthodox congregations and a population that adheres to a centrist version of Judaism.".

"Written by a team of scholars employing the tools of demography, ethnography, sociology, history, and comparative religion, Jews in the Center offers the most comprehensive study of any movement within American Judaism - and indeed, represents one of the most detailed analyses of any denomination in American religious life.".

"Jews in the Center seeks to understand how synagogues function as congregations and to what extent they allow individual expression. By focusing on a mainstream population, this book sheds light on religiously active people who generally receive scant attention: those in the center, who neither retreat from society nor blur the boundaries between their religion and modern American culture."--BOOK JACKET.