The Cambridge Companion to American Judaism

Abstract

Introduction Dana Evan Kaplan 1. From preservation to innovation: Judaism in America, 1654-1880 Eli Faber 2. The reshaping of American Judaism, 1880-1945 Lloyd P. Gartner 3. Trends in American Judaism from 1945 to the present Dana Evan Kaplan 4. Denominationalism in American Judaism Lawrence Grossman 5. Patterns of American Jewish religious behavior Chaim Waxman 6. Thinking Judaism through: Jewish theology in America Byron L. Sherwin 7. The essence of American Judaism Charles Liebman 8. Contemporary Jewish education Isa Aron, Michael Zeldin and Sara Lee 9. The place of Judaism in American Jewish identity Debra Renee Kaufman 10. The Holocaust in Jewish American life Lynn Rapaport 11. Long distance nationalism: Zionism, Israel and American Jews Steve Rosenthal 12. Life cycle rituals: rites of passage in American Judaism Rela Mintz Geffen 13. Choosing lives: evolving gender roles in American Jewish families Sylvia Barack Fishman 14. The body and sexuality in American Jewish culture David Biale 15. The American Jewish urban experience Nathan Glazer 16. 'Sacred survival' revisited: American Jewish civil religion in the new millennium Jonathan Woocher 17. Judaism and democracy in America Alan Mittleman 18. The economics of American Judaism Carmel U. Chiswick 19. American Judaism and interfaith dialogue Yaakov Ariel 20. American midrash: urban Jewish writing and the reclaiming of Judaism Murray Baumgarten 21. Recent trends in new American Jewish music Mark Kligman 22. The visual arts in the American Jewish experience Matthew Baigell 23. Present and future tense: American Judaism in the 21st century Bruce Phillips Afterword Jonathan D. Sarna.