Jewish polity and American civil society
Subtitle: communal agencies and religious movements in the American public sphere
By: edited by Alan Mittleman, Jonathan D. Sarna, and Robert Licht.
Contributors: Mittleman, Alan.; Licht, Robert A.; Sarna, Jonathan D.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
Subjects: Jews -- United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century.; Jews -- United States -- Societies, etc.; Judaism and politics -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I. Communal Agencies; title: 1 "Defenders": National Jewish Community; title: Relations Agencies; title: Steven Windmueller; title: 2 Local Community Relations Councils and Their National Body; title: Michael C. Kotzin; title: 3 History of Israel Advocacy; title: Martin J. Raffel; title: 4 The Jewish Social Welfare Lobby in the United States; title: Joel M. Carp; title: II. Religious Movements; title: 5 The Conservative Movement and the Public Square; title: Gordon M. Freeman; title: 6 Reform Judaism, Minority Rights, and the Separation of Church and State; title: Lance J. Sussman; title: 7 Mainstream Orthodoxy and the American Public Square; title: Lawrence Grossman; title: 8 Haredim and the Public Square: The Nature of the Social Contract; title: Samuel C. Heilman; title: 9 Reconstructionism and the Public Square: A Multicultural Approach to Judaism in America; title: David A. Teutsch; title: 10 Jewish Renewal; title: Allan Arkush; title: Afterword - Alan Mittleman; title: Index; title: About the Contributors.