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It All Begins With a Date: Jewish Concerns About Intermarriage

Alan Silverstein

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Hidden Profits in Your Mortgage: The Smart-Money Guide to Canadian Home Ownership

Alan Silverstein; General Pub Co Ltd Stoddart Pub

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Preserving Jewishness in Your Family: After Intermarriage Has Occurred

Alan Silverstein

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Alternatives to Assimilation: The Response of Reform Judaism to American Culture, 1840-1930

Alan Silverstein

Historians have long debated whether the mid-nineteenth century American synagogue was transplanted from Central Europe or represented an indigenous phenomenon. Alternatives to Assimilation examines the Reform movement in American Judaism from 1840 to 1930 in an attempt to settle this issue. Alan Silverstein describes the emergence of organizational innovations such as youth groups, sisterhoods, brotherhoods, a professionalized rabbinate, a rabbinical college, and a national congregational body as evidence of Jews responding uniquely to American culture, in a fashion parallel to innovations in American Protestant churches. Silverstein places the developments he traces within the context of American religious and cultural history. He notes the shifting roles of American women, children, and ethnic groups as well as America's changing receptivity to trans-Atlantic cultural influences. He also utilizes census records, as well as congregational and national archives, in synthesizing a view of the Reform movement from its local temples and nationwide organizations. By offering a viable response to American culture's rampant secularization and to its pressure on Jews to relinquish their distinctive traditions and commitments, the Reform movement also inspired emerging Conservative and Orthodox Jewish movements to offer their own constituents tangible institutional alternatives to assimilation.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1994

The Leadership Development Guide for Conservative Judaism: A Course for Rabbis to Teach Their Synagogue Board Members

Alan Silverstein; Neil Gillman

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Home Buying Strategies for Newly Built Homes

Alan Silverstein

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Home Buying Strategies for Resale Homes

Alan Silverstein

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Alan Silberstein's Home Buying Strategies for Newly Built Homes

Alan Silverstein

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