New York's Jewish Jews: The Orthodox Community in the Interwar Years (The Modern Jewish Experience) (0253205549) - Reviews and Prices
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New York's Jewish Jews: The Orthodox Community in the Interwar Years (The Modern Jewish Experience) (0253205549) - Reviews and Prices
In this first interpretive historical account of the American Orthodox Jewish experience, Jenna Weissman Joselit investigates the ways in which pious Jews reconciled the requirements of religious tradition with the freedoms of interwar America. Through its focus on representative American Jewish institutions such as the synagogue and the rabbinate and on the sacred ritual life of Orthodox women, New York's Jewish Jews reveals how a self-consciously modern, American, and decidedly middle class Orthodoxy evolved before 1945.
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
The birth of American modern Orthodoxy:
An interesting study of modern Orthodoxy in the 1920s. In those days, Orthodox Jews tended to be less ritually strict than today, especially in affluent areas like New York's Upper East Side. Most Orthodox children attended public schools, and some rabbis discouraged the casual wearing of yarmulkes outside synagogue. In the 1940s and 1950s, a tidal wave of haredi refugees from Eastern Europe (as well as the loss of more moderate congregants to Conservative Judaism) turned Orthodoxy towards a much more... more info
one small error:
I read this book a few years ago and have recently had the opportutnity to perue through it once again. It is a well written and cogent piece of scholarship. It is however a little lacking in it's treatment of the very vocal right wing of Orthodox Jewry during the relevant period, and is thus not a comprehensive study. There is also one factual error which I wish to point out and correct. In chapter one of the book the author states that Cantor Zawel Kwartin was cantor in Temple Beth El in Borough Park,... more info
