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The American synagogue : a sanctuary transformed : a centennial publication of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America / edited by Jack Wertheimer.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks BM655 .A48 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Brandeis series in American Jewish history, culture, and life
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Synagogues--United States--History.
- Synagogues.
- Judaism--United States--History.
- Judaism.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 433 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Hanover : Published by University Press of New England [for] Brandeis University Press, 1995.
- Summary:
- Leading historians of modern Jewry offer the first comprehensive account of American synagogue history.
- Contents:
- The Orthodox Synagogue \ Gurock, J.S.
- The Reform Synagogue \ Jick, L.A.
- The Conservative Synagogue \ Wertheimer, J.
- The American experience of a Sephardic Synagogue \ Angel, M.D.
- Education in the Synagogue: the transform supplementary school \ Chazan, B.
- From city to suburb: Temple Mishkan Tefila of Boston \ Hyman, P.E.
- The special sphere of the middle-class American Jewish woman: the Synagogue Sisterhood \ Joselit, J.W.
- Ethnic-religious am an Immigrant Synagogue: the case of New Hope Congregation \ Kraut, B.
- Conflict over reforms: the case Congregation Beth Elohim, Charleston, South Carolina \ Liberles, R.
- A Synagogue center grows in Brooklyn \ Moore, D.D.
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- Houston \ Shelemay, K.K.
- Notes:
- Previously published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0874517095
- OCLC:
- 31901534
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