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Shalom bayit—Peace of the Home: Ritual and Tradition in American Jewish Families

Routledge eBooks, May 21, 2020

Utilizing a sample of 30 regionally-diverse families (N = 75 individuals) belonging to various br... more Utilizing a sample of 30 regionally-diverse families (N = 75 individuals) belonging to various branches of Judaism, we qualitatively explored how Judaism enhanced and facilitated participants' general life strengths and relational strengths (i.e., marriage and parenting). Based on our findings, Jewish rituals, traditions, and observances had a positive influence on participants' personal lives and family relationships. A sense of duty and responsibility felt toward Jewish observance and to family relationships seemed to facilitate much of this influence.

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Yitz Greenberg and Modern Orthodoxy: The Road Not Taken ed. by Adam S. Ferziger, Miri Freud-Kandel and Steve Bayme

American Jewish History, 2020

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Making a Life, Building a Community: A History of the Jews of Hartford (review)

American Jewish History, 1999

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<i>Dixie Diaspora: An Anthology of Southern Jewish History</i> (review)

Shofar, 2009

Dixie Diaspora: An Anthology of Southern Jewish History, edited by Mark K. Bauman. Tuscaloosa: Un... more Dixie Diaspora: An Anthology of Southern Jewish History, edited by Mark K. Bauman. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006. 480 pp. $65.00 (c); $35.00 (p). "Connoisseurs of the complications of ethnicity," writes Brandeis Professor Stephen J. Whitfield in his 1988 article "The Braided Identity of Southern Jewry," one of sixteen well-chosen articles by Mark K. Bauman, editor of Dixie Diaspora: An Anthology of Southern Jewish History, "can find much to meditate upon in the experience of Southern Jewry." Similarly, historical connoisseurs of American Jewish history, Southern Jewish history as well as numerous other fields of American history in general will "find much to meditate upon" in this collection of recent, critical historical scholarship by one of the senior and most distinguished scholars of Southern Jewish history. "This anthology," the editor maintains, "is designed to expose different audiences to the subfield and particularly to the scholarship of the last twenty-five years, and to encourage the integration of southern Jewish history into American, southern, religious, ethnic and Jewish history." At least in this case, the "design" of the anthology has succeeded both in highlighting the major themes of southern Jewish history and in showcasing many of the new methodological and historiographical approaches employed by contemporary critical scholars. "Selection," Bauman further explains, "was based on methodological innovation, how well articles opened discussion of key themes, and how well they complemented one another." Moreover, the editor notes that "rather than chronology, the articles are organized topically to provide a clearer understanding of contemporary debates and questions." Five topics in all are used as major rubrics for Dixie Diaspora, including I. Jews and Judaism; II. Small-Town Jewish Life; III. Business and Governance; IV. Interaction; and V Identity. With respect to chronology, Dixie Diaspora includes articles from the Colonial period to the present A brief "Introduction" to the entire book as well as "Introductions" to each of the anthology's five sections provide helpful conceptual frameworks for the book's readers. An excellent "Bibliographical Essay" offers a virtual tour of the secondary literature of the southern Jewish experience. The book's only flaw is the absence of a topical index which would have increased its utility as a general research tool. In addition to articles by Bauman and Whitfield, articles by Leonard R. Rogoff ("The Racial Place of the Southern Jew"), Deborah R. Weiner ("Appalachian Jewish Women"), Lee Shai Weissbach ("East European Jews in the South"), and Gary P. Zola ("Southern Rabbis") are representative of the book's depth and scope. …

Isaac Leeser and the Making of American Judaism

The Journal of American History, 1998

... BM755.L397S84 1995 296.8&amp;#x27;32&amp;#x27;092—dc20 IB] 95-10952 Designer: Joanne ... more ... BM755.L397S84 1995 296.8&amp;#x27;32&amp;#x27;092—dc20 IB] 95-10952 Designer: Joanne Elkin Kinney ... work, writing, university teach-ing, and attending to the needs of an active synagogue, however, has fallen primarily on my wife, Liz, and five children, Benjamin, Joshua, Micah, Judah, and ...

Abba Hillel Silver: A Profile in American Judaism

The American Historical Review, 1991

... Abba Hillel Silver: A profile in American Judaism. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Raph... more

Lance J. Sussman. Isaac Leeser and the Making of American Judaism. American Jewish Civilization Series. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1995. 311 pp

AJS Review, 1997

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Isaac Leeser and the Making of American Judaism

The Journal of American History, Mar 1, 1998

The Jewish Context: American Jewish Leadership

Religious Leadership: A Reference Handbook

“Destiny Has Bound Us Together”

New Perspectives in American Jewish History, 2021

Yitz Greenberg and Modern Orthodoxy: The Road Not Taken ed. by Adam S. Ferziger, Miri Freud-Kandel and Steve Bayme

American Jewish History, 2020

Leeser, Isaac

Encyclopedia of the Bible Online, 2017

Reform Judaism in America: a biographical dictionary and sourcebook

Choice Reviews Online, 1993

Preface Abbreviations Introduction Biographical Dictionary Orthodox Rabbinic Organizations in Ame... more

A Century of Jewish Life: Three Trips Transform the 'Jewish Heart' of a Rabbi

Jewish Exponent, Jan 24, 2002

The Myth of the Trefa Banquet: American Culinary Culture and the Radicalization of Food Policy in American Reform Judaism

American Jewish Archives Journal, 2005

... While Noah also refrained from eating pork in public, he openly violated other dietary restri... more

Another Look at Isaac Leeser and the First Jewish Translation of the Bible in the United States

Modern Judaism, 1985

Page 1. Lance J. Sussman ANOTHER LOOK AT ISAAC LEESER AND THE FIRST JEWISH TRANSLATION OF THE BIB... more

Marc Lee Raphael. Abba Hillel Silver: A Profile in American Judaism. Introduction by Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1989. xxxiii, 282 pp

AJS Review, 1990

many? For Hartman, these letters reveal the sage offering practical counsel to people and communi... more many? For Hartman, these letters reveal the sage offering practical counsel to people and communities facing calamity. Hartman's well-known differences with other interpreters of Maimonides (L. Strauss, H. Soloveitchik, I. Twersky, A. Funkenstein, among others) are addressed but not reconciled in this volume. His impassioned discussions are informative and provocative. This is not a book for beginning students, but for those who have studied Maimonides it provides the cogent reflections of a sensitive scholar. And yet, despite the abundant scholarly contributions of Hartman and others, the questions concerning the Sage of Fustat still draw us onward.