ISBN:
9780253352910
,
9780253220608
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 381 S.
,
Ill.
,
24cm
Year of publication:
2009
Series Statement:
〈〈The〉〉 modern jewish experience
DDC:
296.8320973
Keywords:
Orthodox Judaism History
;
Jews History
;
Jews Social life and customs
;
USA
;
Orthodoxes Judentum
;
Geschichte 1820-2007
;
USA
;
Jüdische Gemeinde
;
Geschichte 1820-2007
Note:
Prologue : within the wide tent of a Bronx Orthodox congregation, circa 1960 -- All alone and out of control -- American challenges and Jewish challengers -- Religious dilemmas of a treif land -- Strategies of New York's Orthodox activists -- Crisis and compromise -- Brooklyn's committed communities -- A more faithful following -- Comfortable and courted -- Orthodox vs. Orthodox -- Open and closed to feminism - Epilogue : the tentative Orthodox of the twenty-first century
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