Jewish Continuity in America - Creative Survival in a Free Society

Klappentext Presents an overview of a life's work by a preeminent scholar and brings new insight to the challenge of American Jewish continuity. How does the Jewish community in a free! open! pluralistic society discover or create factors that make group survival beneficial to the larger society and rewarding to the individual Jew? Abraham J. Karp focuses on the three major sources of American Judaism's continuing vitality: the synagogue! the rabbinate! and Jewish religious pluralism. Zusammenfassung Jewish Continuity in America presents an overview of a life's work by a preeminent scholar and brings new insight to the challenge of American Jewish continuity.

About the author

Abraham J. Karp is the Philip S. Bernstein Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies at The University of Rochester and The Joseph and Rebecca Mitchell Research Professor of American Jewish History and Bibliography at The Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

Product details

• Authors: Abraham J Karp, Abraham J. Karp
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2014
• EAN: 9780817358228
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5822-8
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Judaic Studies; Judaic Studies Series; Judaic Studies; Judaic Studies Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous