Orthodox Jews in America
By: Jeffrey S. Gurock.
Series: The modern jewish experience
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bloomington, IN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9780253352910; 9780253220608
Subjects: Orthodox Judaism -- United States -- History; Jews -- United States -- History; Jews -- United States -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : within the wide tent of a Bronx Orthodox congregation, circa 1960; title: All alone and out of control; title: American challenges and Jewish challengers; title: Religious dilemmas of a treif land; title: Strategies of New York's Orthodox activists; title: Crisis and compromise; title: Brooklyn's committed communities; title: A more faithful following; title: Comfortable and courted; title: Orthodox vs. Orthodox; title: Open and closed to feminism; title: Epilogue : the tentative Orthodox of the twenty-first century.