The Modern Jewish Experience: A Reader's Guide Contributor(s): Wertheimer, Jack (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0814792618 ISBN-13: 9780814792612 Publisher: New York University Press OUR PRICE: $88.11 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 1993 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Jewish - General - Religion | Judaism - General - History | Civilization |
Dewey: 909.049 |
LCCN: 92031668 |
Physical Information: 1.06" H x 6" W x 9" (1.63 lbs) 410 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Religious Orientation - Jewish |
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Publisher Description: The pace of scholarly research and academic publication in fields of Judaica has quickened dramatically in the second half of the twentieth century. The major consumers and producers of this new scholarship are found in Jewish Studies programs that have proliferated at institutions of higher learning around the world since the 1960s. From the vantage point of the nineties, it is difficult to fathom that until thirty years ago, Jewish studies courses were mainly limited to a few elite universities, rabbinical seminaries, and Hebrew teachers' colleges. Today there are few colleges at public or private insitutions of higher learning that do not sponsor at least some courses on aspects of Jewish study. |
Contributor Bio(s): Wertheimer, Jack: - Jack Wertheimerholds the Joseph and Martha Mendelson Chair in American Jewish History at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, where he also directs the Joseph and Miriam Ratner Center for the Study of Conservative Judaism. He is the author of Unwelcome Strangers: East European Jews in Imperial Germany and is completing a book on the transformation of American Judaism in the second half of the twentieth century. He is also the editor of The American Synagogue: A Sanctuary Transformed and The Uses of Tradition: Jewish Continuity in the Modern Era. |