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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 296.0973
EAN num: 9780817309237
ISBN number: 0817309233
Label: University Alabama Press
Manufacturer: University Alabama Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 302
Printing Date: September 23, 1998
Publishing house: University Alabama Press
Sale Popularity Level: 2484630
Studio: University Alabama Press
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Jews have historically lived within a paradox of faith and fear: faith that they are an eternal people and fear that their generation may be the last. In the United States, the Jewish community has faced to a heightened degree the enduring question of identity and assimilation: How does the Jewish community in this free, open, pluralistic society discover or create factors -- both ideological and existential -- that make group survival beneficial to the larger society and rewarding to the individual Jew? Abraham J. Karp's Jewish Continuity in America focuses on the three major sources of American Judaism's continuing vitality: the synagogue, the rabbinate, and Jewish religious pluralism. Particularly illuminating is Karp's examination of the coexistence and unity-in-diversity of American religious Jewry's three divisions -- Orthodox, Reform, and Conservative -- and of how this Jewish religious pluralism fits into the larger picture of American religious pluralism. Informing the larger enterprise through sharp and full delineation of discrete endeavors, the essays collected in Jewish Continuity in America -- some already acknowledged as classics, some appearing here for the very first time -- describe creative individual and communal responses to the challenge of Jewish survival. As the title suggests, this book argues that continuity in a free and open society demands a high order of creativity, a creativity that, to be viable, must be anchored in institutions wholly pledged to continuity.
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