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| 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. |
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