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Beyond yiddishkeit :

0887065139

0887065147 (pbk.)

9780887065132

9780887065149 (pbk.)

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Beyond yiddishkeit :

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the struggle for Jewish identity in a Reform synagogue /

Frida Kerner Furman.

Albany :

State University of New York Press,

c1987.

ix, 157 p. ;

24 cm.

SUNY series in anthropology and Judaic studies

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 143-153.

The transformation of Jewish identity -- Traditional Jewish society -- The religious dimension -- The individual and the group -- The power of the past -- The move to modernity -- The dissolution of traditional Jewish society -- Alternative Jewish paths -- The American experience -- Tradition and modernity: a false dichotomy -- Temple Shalom: setting and reform context -- Temple Shalom today -- The membership -- Professional staff -- Organizational structure -- The religious school -- The reform movement in America -- Ideology and identity -- Liberalism -- Social activism -- The Jewish tradition -- The Yarmulke controversy -- The question of Jewish content -- Summary and conclusions -- Ritual and identity -- The ritual context -- The Sabbath service -- The prayerbook -- The normative ritual -- The chaverim service: ritual of reversal analysis -- Community and identity -- The construction of community: uniqueness and identity -- The Temple Shalom family -- Differentiation from the Jewish community -- Style -- Temple Shalom as community -- Conclusions -- The sacralization of identity -- The liberal ethic -- Universalism and individualism -- Rationality -- Secularism -- The construction of a new ethic.

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Jews-- United States-- Identity.

Judaism-- United States.

Reform Judaism-- United States.

Synagogues-- United States.

Furman, Frida Kerner,1948-

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