The American Synagogue: A Sanctuary Transformed

by Edited by Jack Wertheimer

• ISBN13: 9780521332903
• ISBN10: 0521332907
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1988-02-26
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Leading historians of modern Jewry offer the first comprehensive account of American synagogue history.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Overview: the synagogue in America - a historical typology Abraham J. Karp

Part I. The Denominational Perspective: 2. The orthodox synagogue Jeffrey S. Gurock

3. The reform synagogue Leon A. Jick

4. The conservative synagogue Jack Wertheimer

Part II. The American experience of a sephardic synagogue Marc D. Angel

6. Education in the synagogue: the transformation of the supplementary school Barry Chazan

7. From city to suburb: temple Mishkan Tefila of Boston Paula E. Hyman

8. The special sphere of the Middle-Class American Jewish woman: the synagogue sisterhood, 1890-1940 Jenna Weissman Joselit

9. Ethnic-religious ambiguities in an immigrant synagogue: the case of new hope congregation Benny Kraut

10. Conflict over reforms: the case of congregation Beth Elohim, Charleston, South Carolina Robert Liberles

11. A synagogue center grows in Brooklyn Deborah Dash Moore

12. choosing a synagogue: the social composition of two German congregations in nineteenth-century Baltimore Marsha L. Rozenblit

13. The debate over mixed seating in the American synagogue Jonathan D. Sarna

14. Music in the American synagogue: a case study from Houston Kay Kaufman Shelemay

Index.