JACK WERTHEIMER is the Provost at the Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, and author of several books about American Judaism, including two published by Brandeis University Press, The American Synagogue: A Sanctuary Transformed (1995) and A People Divided: Judaism in Contemporary America (1999).
"Wertheimer has brought together a group of social historians who
have helped demonstrate the centrality of the synagogue to the
American Jewish experience, and who have given us a rich beginning
for the exploration of synagogue history." --Journal of American
History
This volume is minimally about religion, but implicitly it seems to
be making the case that religion and particularism are less
meaningful to younger Jews as opposed to cultural expression and
the Jewish contribution to the world... It remains to be seen,
then, whether this volume has documented the emergence of a new
communal form for Jews (and thus Judaism) or whether it is merely a
phase in Jewish assimilation. Sociology of Religion"
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