Orthodox Jews in America / Jeffrey S. Gurock.

By:

Gurock, Jeffrey S, 1949-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Modern Jewish experience (Bloomington, Ind.)Publication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2009.Description: 1 online resource (x, 381 pages) : illustrations, facsimile, portraitsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780253002921
0253002923
1282103342
9781282103344
9786612103346
6612103345

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Orthodox Jews in America.DDC classification:

296.8/320973 22

LOC classification:

BM205 .G885 2009eb

NLM classification:

000127657

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Contents:

Prologue : within the wide tent of a Bronx Orthodox congregation, circa 1960 -- All alone and out of control -- American challenges and Jewish challengers -- Religious dilemmas of a treif land -- Strategies of New York's Orthodox activists -- Crisis and compromise -- Brooklyn's committed communities -- A more faithful following -- Comfortable and courted -- Orthodox vs. Orthodox -- Open and closed to feminism -- Epilogue : the tentative Orthodox of the twenty-first century.

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Awards:

National Jewish Book Awards (nominated), 2010

Summary: Jeffrey S. Gurock recounts the history of Orthodox Jews in America, from the time of the early arrivals in the 17th century to the present, and examines how Orthodox Jewish men and women coped with the personal, familial, and communal challenges of religious freedom, economic opportunity, and social integration. --from publisher description.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Jeffrey S. Gurock recounts the history of Orthodox Jews in America, from the time of the early arrivals in the 17th century to the present, and examines how Orthodox Jewish men and women coped with the personal, familial, and communal challenges of religious freedom, economic opportunity, and social integration. --from publisher description.

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English.

National Jewish Book Awards (nominated), 2010

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