Jewish Life and American Culture

Illustrates how some Jews have created a new, hybrid form of Judaism, merging American values and behaviors with those from historical Jewish traditions.

About the author

At Brandeis University, Sylvia Barack Fishman is Associate Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life/ Sociology of American Jews in the Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Department and the Co-Director of the Hadassah International Research Institute on Jewish Women. She is editor of Follow My Footprints: Changing Images of Women in American Jewish Fiction, and author of A Breath of Life: Feminism in the American Jewish Community, which was named 1994 Honor Book by the National Jewish Book Council.

Product details

• Authors: Sylvia Barack Fishman
• Publisher: SUNY Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.05.2000
• EAN: 9780791445464
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-4546-4
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 434 g
• Series: Suny Series in American Jewish; Suny American Jewish Society i
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories