American Judaism / Nathan Glazer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glazer, Nathan, Author.

Series:

The Chicago History of American Civilization

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judaism--United States--History.

Judaism.

Jews--United States--Social conditions.

Jews.

United States--Religion.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxix, 214 pages)

Edition:

Second edition, revised, with a new introduction.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

First published in 1957, Nathan Glazer's classic, historical study of Judaism in America has been described by the New York Times Book Review as "a remarkable story . . . told briefly and clearly by an objective historical mind, yet with a fine combination of sociological insight and religious sensitivity." Glazer's new introduction describes the drift away from the popular equation of American Judaism with liberalism during the last two decades and considers the threat of divisiveness within American Judaism. Glazer also discusses tensions between American Judaism and Israel as a result of a revivified Orthodoxy and the disillusionment with liberalism. "American Judaism has been arguably the best known and most used introduction to the study of the Jewish religion in the United States. . . . It is an inordinately clear-sighted work that can be read with much profit to this day."-American Jewish History (1987)

Contents:

Frontmatter

Editor's Preface to the Second Edition

Acknowledgments

Contents

Introduction, 1989

I. Introduction

II. Beginnings of American Judaism 1654-1825

III. The German Immigration and the Shaping of Reform 1825-94

IV. Reformers and Conservatives 1880-1900

V. The East European Migration 1880-1920

VI. Judaism and Jewishness 1920-45

VII. The Jewish Revival 1945-56

VIII. The Religion of American Jews

IX. Epilogue: The Year 1967 and Its Meaning, 1956-72

Appendix. Declaration of Principles Adopted by a Group of Reform Rabbis at Pittsburgh, 1885

Notes

Important Dates

Suggested Reading

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

0-226-15047-X

OCLC:

1125185053