By Robert Seltzer,Norman S. Cohen
How did Judaism, a faith so usually outlined by means of its minority prestige, reach equivalent footing within the trinity of Catholicism, Protestantism, and Judaism that now dominates sleek American spiritual life?
THE AMERICANIZATION OF THE JEWS seeks out the results of this evolution on either Jews in the US and an the US with Jews. even supposing English, French, and Dutch Jewries tend to be thought of the significant forerunners of contemporary Jewry, Jews have lived as lengthy in North the United States as they've got in publish- medieval Britain and France and simply sixty years under in Amsterdam.
As one of many 4 specially inventive Jewish groups that has helped re-shape and re-formulate smooth Judaism, American Judaism is the main advanced and least understood. German Jewry is well-known for its contribution to fashionable Jewish theology and philosophy, Russian and varnish Jewry is understood for its secular effect in literature, and Israel basically bargains Judaism a brand new stance as a native land. yet how does one trap the interaction among the USA and Judaism?
Immigration to the United States intended that a lot of Judaism used to be discarded, and lots more and plenty was once retained. Acculturation didn't continuously bring about assimilation: Jewishness used to be honed as an self sufficient variable within the motivations of a lot of its American adherents- -and has remained so, even if Jewish associations, ideologies, or even Jewish values were reshaped through the US to such an measure that many Jews of the prior will possibly not realize as Jewish a few of what constitutes American Jewishness.
This choice of essays explores the paradoxes that abound within the America/Judaism courting, concentrating on such particular concerns as Jews and American politics within the 20th century, the variation of Jewish spiritual existence to the yank atmosphere, the contributions and impression of the women's circulation, and commentaries at the Jewish destiny in the United States.
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