Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Orthodoxy in America after the Holocaust 2. The Numbers 3. Jewish Education as a Field of Conflict within Orthodoxy 4. Reinventing Tradition: When Going by the Book Replaces Living on the Street 5. Machon L'Parnasa: The Educational Alternative 6. Much Truth Said in Jest: Humor, Role Distance, and Young Orthodox Jews 7. Orthodox Jewish Calls from the Walls: Posters and What They Teach Us 8. Toward a Postmodern American Orthodoxy Appendix Notes Index
Samuel C. Heilman is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and holds the Harold M. Proshansky Chair in Jewish Studies and Sociology at the City University of New York. He is also on the faculty of Queens College, CUNY. Heilman is the author of When a Jew Dies: The Ethnography of a Bereaved Son (California, 2002), winner of the National Jewish Book Award and the Koret Jewish Book Award; Defenders of the Faith (California, 1999); and Synagogue Life (1998), among other books.
"Heilman is one of the most productive, interesting, and important sociologists writing about Jewish communities in the world today. This book is a significant snapshot, filled with Heilman's fine-grained observations of particular cultural practices such as humor, posters, and Rabbi portraits. Heilman is a first-rate thinker, an excellent researcher whose work is richly empirical, and an unusually clear and lively writer." - Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, author of Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage"
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