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A People Divided: Judaism in Contemporary America
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Jack Wertheimer
This work is an analysis of how fundamental changes in wider American society have affected Jewish religious life. Opening with a picture of American Judaism at mid-century, it reveals the profound effects of everything from suburbanization to population growth, from feminism to Jewish fundamentalism. By examining both official ideology and the ...
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The American Synagogue: A Sanctuary Transformed
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Jack Wertheimer (Editor)
Adapting to the shifting characteristics of the American Jewish population and the larger society of the United States, the synagogue has consistently served as American Jewry's vital forum for the exploration of the evolving ideological and social concerns of American Jews. From the Americanization of an immigrant congregation in Seattle to the ...
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Imagining the American Jewish Community
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Jack Wertheimer (Editor)
Since their arrival on these shores over 350 years ago, American Jews who have wished to maintain a Jewish communal life have faced a set of novel challenges. Throughout their history in the U.S., Jews have been free to embrace or eschew communal involvement; to support or ignore Jewish institutions; to associate with other Jews or to distance ...
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Unwelcome Strangers: East European Jews in Imperial Germany
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Jack Wertheimer
When East European Jews migrated westward in ever larger numbers between 1870 and 1914, both German government officials and the leaders of German Jewry were confronted by a series of new challenges. This book probes the questions raised, touching on some of the most troubling issues in modern German and Jewish history - the behaviour of Germans ...
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Pharmacy and the U.S. Health Care System, Second Edition
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Jack E Fincham (Editor), Albert I Wertheimer (Editor)
Pharmacy and the U.S. Health Care System, Second Edition, examines and gages the ramifications of each of these phenomena to clarify the issues at stake and ensure that better-informed and prepared students, academics, practicing pharmacists, and manufacturers emerge to lead the profession to a higher level of success. As you will see, without the ...
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Tradition Renewed: A History of the Jewish Theological Seminary
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Jack Wertheimer, Jewish Theological Seminary Of America
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The Uses of Tradition: Jewish Continuity in the Modern Era
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Jack Wertheimer (Editor)
How have modern Jews appropriated traditional aspects of their culture and religion to sustain them in the modern world? Twenty-one distinguished scholars address this question by drawing on a range of disciplines: social and cultural history, ethnography, folklore, sociology, educational theory, and rabbinics. They examine Jewish communities ...
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Pharmacy and the U.S. Health Care System
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Michael I Smith (Editor), Albert I Wertheimer (Editor), Jack E Fincham (Editor)
A classic text used to prepare pharmacists for independent practice in today's unpredictable environment since the first edition was published in 1991.
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A People Divided
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The Jews in the Center: Conservative Synagogues and Their Members
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Jack Wertheimer (Editor)
This study of Conservative American Jews examines the largest movement of synagogue-affiliated Jews in the US, a group that outnumbers the combined membership of Reform and Orthodox congregations and a population that adheres to a centrist version of Judaism.
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The Modern Jewish Experience: A Reader's Guide
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Jack Wertheimer
The pace of scholarly research and academic publication in Judaica has quickened dramatically in the second half of the 20th century. The major consumers and producers of this new scholarship are found in Jewish Studies programmes that have proliferated at institutions of higher learning around the world since the 1960s. From the vantage point of ...
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Back to School: Jewish Day School in the Lives of Adult Jews
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Alex Pomson, Randal F Schnoor, Jack Wertheimer (Foreword by)
This is a groundbreaking study on the impact of Jewish day schools in the lives of parents and children.Beyond the walls of their synagogues, Jewish adults are creating religious meaning in new and diverse ways in a range of unconventional sites. In "Back to School", authors Alex Pomson and Randal F. Schnoor argue that the Jewish day school serves ...
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Pharmacy and the U.S. Health Care System
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Jews in the Center
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Jack Wertheimer (Editor)
This text offers a balance of quantitative sociology, demography and cultural anthropology. It provides a portrayal of the strengths and weaknesses of the conservative Jewish movement, set against the background of American middle-class religion at the end of the 20th century.
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Family Matters: Jewish Education in an Age of Choice
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In recent years, the high rate of intermarriage and other demographic factors have created a challenge for American Jewry: How can rabbis, policy planners, educators, and parents transmit most effectively Jewish religion, culture, and values to their children? Prior research shows that Jewish education is the one area in which communal leaders and ...
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Learning and Community: Jewish Supplementary Schools in the Twenty-First Century
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Jack Wertheimer (Editor)
This book offers rich ethnographies of ten Jewish supplementary schools drawn from every region in the United States. At a time of heightened interest in Jewish supplementary schooling, this volume offers a pathbreaking examination of how ten diverse schools have remade themselves to face the new challenges of the twenty-first century. Each ...
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