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Jewish Choices

American Jewish Denominationalism

By: Bernard Lazerwitz,J. Alan Winter,Arnold Dashefsky,Ephraim Tabory

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Jewish Choices

American Jewish Denominationalism

By: Bernard Lazerwitz,J. Alan Winter,Arnold Dashefsky,Ephraim Tabory

Having a religious preference and expressing it via a denominational choice is a fundamental way Americans relate to their society. Similarly, American Jews have divided their religion into four parts—Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and no preference Jews. This book focuses on how Jewish lifestyles are expressed through denominational affiliation. The development of American Jewish denominations is viewed as more a matter of individual choice than family heritage. The characteristics of individual adherents of the three major denominations vary systematically as does one's involvement both in local Jewish communities and in the community-at-large. The authors show that as one goes from Orthodox to no preference Jews, the extent of religious expression, ethnic attachments, and Jewish community involvement declines. They project the distribution of denominational preference in 2010 and conclude with recommendations for those who wish to see Jewish identity survive and thrive in America.

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State University of New York Press

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1438410239

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9781438410234

Charitable Choices

Philanthropic Decisions of Donors in the American Jewish Community

By: Arnold Dashefsky,Bernard Melvin Lazerwitz

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Charitable Choices

Philanthropic Decisions of Donors in the American Jewish Community

By: Arnold Dashefsky,Bernard Melvin Lazerwitz

Charitable giving and philanthropic behavior are frequently the subject of media reports and newspaper headlines. Examining the incentives and barriers to charitable behavior, Dashefsky and Lazerwitz account for such giving by members of the Jewish community. A discussion of motivations for charitable giving, Charitable Choices relies on quantitative and qualitative data in one religio-ethnic community.

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180

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Lexington Books

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0739109871

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9780739109878

Choosing Survival

Strategies for a Jewish Future

By: Bernard Susser,Charles S. Liebman

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Choosing Survival

Strategies for a Jewish Future

By: Bernard Susser,Charles S. Liebman

Throughout history, the persecutions of the Jewish people have been central to their identity and to the cohesion of their religion and cultural heritage. But now, with the success of the Jewish State of Israel and the prosperity of Jews in the United States, the collective sufferings that have forged the Jewish identity are disappearing. The compelling question Bernard Susser and Charles Liebman ask in Choosing Survival is: Will this success paradoxically prove fatal to Judaism? Susser and Liebman paint a disturbing portrait of the decline of Judaism in both Israel and the United States and the various--and mainly ineffective--efforts to reverse that decline. In Israel, as Jews are increasingly drawn to cosmopolitan Western culture, Jewishness is in danger of being reduced merely to communal folkways, while political tensions between religious and secular Jews threaten to pull the state apart. In the U.S., assimilation and secularization is even harder to resist. Efforts to strengthen Jewish identity by claiming the U.S. is still anti-Semitic and by pointing to the Holocaust and the threats to Israel's survival have not worked. The authors do, however, see a hopeful sign in Jewish Orthodoxy which, while not a viable solution to the problem, is successfully passing on its tenets and practices and attracting many non-Orthodox Jews. They identify several aspects of Orthodoxy that can be emulated by all Jews and hold the best hope for Jewish survival--its reverence for study, its ability to set and maintain boundaries, and its deep belief in community. For anyone concerned about the fate of Judaism and what it means to be Jewish, Choosing Survival is an impassioned, troubling, and essential book.

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Oxford University Press

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0198029349

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9780198029342

Jewish Choices

American Jewish Denominationalism

By: Bernard Melvin Lazerwitz,J. Alan Winter,Ephraim Tabory,Arnold Dashefsky

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Jewish Choices

American Jewish Denominationalism

By: Bernard Melvin Lazerwitz,J. Alan Winter,Ephraim Tabory,Arnold Dashefsky

Illustrates how and why Jewish denominational preferences are more a matter of individual choice than family heritage.

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SUNY Press

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0791435814

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9780791435816

Charitable Choices

Philanthropic Decisions of Donors in the American Jewish Community

By: Arnold Dashefsky,Bernard Melvin Lazerwitz

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Philanthropic Decisions of Donors in the American Jewish Community

By: Arnold Dashefsky,Bernard Melvin Lazerwitz

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Americans Abroad

A Comparative Study of Emigrants from the United States

By: University of Connecticut,Syracuse University,Bar-Ilan University

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Americans Abroad

A Comparative Study of Emigrants from the United States

By: University of Connecticut,Syracuse University,Bar-Ilan University

An American college student traveling around Europe on a bicycle with two friends arrived at a recent July 4th celebration in Moscow and remarked, "We've been traveling around Europe and Russia for almost a month now. I never thought I'd be saying this, but I never wanted to see and hear Americans so much in my life. That would be so corny back home. But here it just seems right" (Hartford Courant, July 5, 1989, p. A2). Apparently you can take an American out of America, but you cannot take America out of an American-and perhaps this notion applies to other migrants as well. This is a book that explores the experience of Americans abroad, specifi cally those who are living in other countries of the developed world with a lower standard of living than that of the United States. This study compares the travels and travails of emigrants to Australia and Israel and seeks to apply a social psychological perspective to address three questions: (1) What accounts for the motivation of migrants to move? (2) What are the sources of the adjustment problems the migrants experience? (3) What explains whether the migrants re main or return to the United States? Ideally, it would be best to devise one instrument to gather data on repre sentative samples of Americans living in a variety of countries abroad, but such an effort is beyond the resources of most researchers-including us.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1475721692

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9781475721690

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