Beyond The Synagogue Gallery

Author : Karla GOLDMAN,Karla Goldman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780674037779

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Beyond the Synagogue Gallery by Karla GOLDMAN,Karla Goldman Pdf

Beyond the Synagogue Gallery recounts the emergence of new roles for American Jewish women in public worship and synagogue life. Karla Goldman's study of changing patterns of female religiosity is a story of acculturation, of adjustments made to fit Jewish worship into American society. Goldman focuses on the nineteenth century. This was an era in which immigrant communities strove for middle-class respectability for themselves and their religion, even while fearing a loss of traditions and identity. For acculturating Jews some practices, like the ritual bath, quickly disappeared. Women's traditional segregation from the service in screened women's galleries was gradually replaced by family pews and mixed choirs. By the end of the century, with the rising tide of Jewish immigration from Russia and Eastern Europe, the spread of women's social and religious activism within a network of organizations brought collective strength to the nation's established Jewish community. Throughout these changing times, though, Goldman notes persistent ambiguous feelings about the appropriate place of women in Judaism, even among reformers. This account of the evolving religious identities of American Jewish women expands our understanding of women's religious roles and of the Americanization of Judaism in the nineteenth century; it makes an essential contribution to the history of religion in America.

Author : Rachel B. Gross
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Homesickness
ISBN : 9781479820511

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Beyond the Synagogue by Rachel B. Gross Pdf

Author : Rachel B. Gross
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781479803385

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Beyond the Synagogue by Rachel B. Gross Pdf

Finalist for the 2021 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies Honorable Mention, 2021 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewish Historical Society Reveals nostalgia as a new way of maintaining Jewish continuity In 2007, the Museum at Eldridge Street opened at the site of a restored nineteenth-century synagogue originally built by some of the first Eastern European Jewish immigrants in New York City. Visitors to the museum are invited to stand along indentations on the floor where footprints of congregants past have worn down the soft pinewood. Here, many feel a palpable connection to the history surrounding them. Beyond the Synagogue argues that nostalgic activities such as visiting the Museum at Eldridge Street or eating traditional Jewish foods should be understood as American Jewish religious practices. In making the case that these practices are not just cultural, but are actually religious, Rachel B. Gross asserts that many prominent sociologists and historians have mistakenly concluded that American Judaism is in decline, and she contends that they are looking in the wrong places for Jewish religious activity. If they looked outside of traditional institutions and practices, such as attendance at synagogue or membership in Jewish Community Centers, they would see that the embrace of nostalgia provides evidence of an alternative, under-appreciated way of being Jewish and of maintaining Jewish continuity. Tracing American Jews’ involvement in a broad array of ostensibly nonreligious activities, including conducting Jewish genealogical research, visiting Jewish historic sites, purchasing books and toys that teach Jewish nostalgia to children, and seeking out traditional Jewish foods, Gross argues that these practices illuminate how many American Jews are finding and making meaning within American Judaism today.

Author : Karla Goldman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Judaism
ISBN : OCLC:233992219

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Beyond the Gallery by Karla Goldman Pdf

Traces the creation of a religious identity for Jewish women by examining their changing position within the synagogue as a result of the development of 19th century American Judaism.

Author : Riv-Ellen Prell
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814335680

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Women Remaking American Judaism by Riv-Ellen Prell Pdf

The rise of Jewish feminism, a branch of both second-wave feminism and the American counterculture, in the late 1960s had an extraordinary impact on the leadership, practice, and beliefs of American Jews. Women Remaking American Judaism is the first book to fully examine the changes in American Judaism as women fought to practice their religion fully and to ensure that its rituals, texts, and liturgies reflected their lives. In addition to identifying the changes that took place, this volume aims to understand the process of change in ritual, theology, and clergy across the denominations. The essays in Women Remaking American Judaism offer a paradoxical understanding of Jewish feminism as both radical, in the transformational sense, and accomodationist, in the sense that it was thoroughly compatible with liberal Judaism. Essays in the first section, Reenvisioning Judaism, investigate the feminist challenges to traditional understanding of Jewish law, texts, and theology. In Redefining Judaism, the second section, contributors recognize that the changes in American Judaism were ultimately put into place by each denomination, their law committees, seminaries, rabbinic courts, rabbis, and synagogues, and examine the distinct evolution of women’s issues in the Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist movements. Finally, in the third section, Re-Framing Judaism, essays address feminist innovations that, in some cases, took place outside of the synagogue. An introduction by Riv-Ellen Prell situates the essays in both American and modern Jewish history and offers an analysis of why Jewish feminism was revolutionary. Women Remaking American Judaism raises provocative questions about the changes to Judaism following the feminist movement, at every turn asking what change means in Judaism and other American religions and how the fight for equality between men and women parallels and differs from other changes in Judaism. Women Remaking American Judaism will be of interest to both scholars of Jewish history and women’s studies.

Author : Deborah Dash Moore,Howard B. Rock,Jeffrey S. Gurock,Annie Polland,Daniel Soyer
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 1154 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814717318

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City of promises : a history of the jews of New York by Deborah Dash Moore,Howard B. Rock,Jeffrey S. Gurock,Annie Polland,Daniel Soyer Pdf

New York Jews, so visible and integral to the culture, economy and politics of America's greatest city, has eluded the grasp of historians for decades. Surprisingly, no comprehensive history of New York Jews has ever been written. City of Promises: The History of the Jews in New York, a three volume set of original research, pioneers a path-breaking interpretation of a Jewish urban community at once the largest in Jewish history and most important in the modern world.

Author : Howard B Rock
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814776926

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Haven of Liberty by Howard B Rock Pdf

Haven of Liberty chronicles the arrival of the first Jews to New York in 1654 and highlights the role of republicanism in shaping their identity and institutions. Rock follows the Jews of NewYork through the Dutch and British colonial eras, the American Revolution and early republic, and the antebellum years, ending with a path-breaking account of their outlook and behavior during the Civil War. Overcoming significant barriers, these courageous men and women laid the foundations for one of the world’s foremost Jewish cities.

Author : Zev Eleff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190490287

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Who Rules the Synagogue? by Zev Eleff Pdf

Finalist for the American Jewish Studies cateogry of the 2016 National Jewish Book Awards Early in the 1800s, American Jews consciously excluded rabbinic forces from playing a role in their community's development. By the final decades of the century, ordained rabbis were in full control of America's leading synagogues and large sectors of American Jewish life. How did this shift occur? Who Rules the Synagogue? explores how American Jewry in the nineteenth century was transformed from a lay dominated community to one whose leading religious authorities were rabbis. Zev Eleff traces the history of this revolution, culminating in the Pittsburgh rabbinical conference of 1885 and the commotion caused by it. Previous scholarship has chartered the religious history of American Judaism during this era, but Eleff reinterprets this history through the lens of religious authority. In so doing, he offers a fresh view of the story of American Judaism with the aid of never-before-mined sources and a comprehensive review of periodicals and newspapers. Eleff weaves together the significant episodes and debates that shaped American Judaism during this formative period, and places this story into the larger context of American religious history and modern Jewish history.

Author : Tobias Brinkmann
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226074566

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Sundays at Sinai by Tobias Brinkmann Pdf

First established 150 years ago, Chicago Sinai is one of America’s oldest Reform Jewish congregations. Its founders were upwardly mobile and civically committed men and women, founders and partners of banks and landmark businesses like Hart Schaffner & Marx, Sears & Roebuck, and the giant meatpacking firm Morris & Co. As explicitly modern Jews, Sinai’s members supported and led civic institutions and participated actively in Chicago politics. Perhaps most radically, their Sunday services, introduced in 1874 and still celebrated today, became a hallmark of the congregation. In Sundays at Sinai, Tobias Brinkmann brings modern Jewish history, immigration, urban history, and religious history together to trace the roots of radical Reform Judaism from across the Atlantic to this rapidly growing American metropolis. Brinkmann shines a light on the development of an urban reform congregation, illuminating Chicago Sinai’s practices and history, and its contribution to Christian-Jewish dialogue in the United States. Chronicling Chicago Sinai’s radical beginnings in antebellum Chicago to the present, Sundays at Sinai is the extraordinary story of a leading Jewish Reform congregation in one of America’s great cities.

Author : Annie Polland
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300124705

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Landmark of the Spirit by Annie Polland Pdf

New York City’s magnificent Eldridge Street Synagogue was built in 1887 in response to the great wave of Jewish immigrants who fled persecution in eastern Europe. Finding their way to the Lower East Side, the new arrivals formed a vibrant Jewish community that flourished from the 1850s until the 1940s. Their synagogue served not only as a place of worship but also as a singularly important center in the development of American Judaism. A near ruin in the 1980s that was recently reopened after a massive twenty-year restoration, the Eldridge Street Synagogue has been named a National Historic Landmark. But as Bill Moyers tells us in his foreword, the synagogue is also “a landmark of the spirit, . . . the spirit of a new nation committed to the old idea of liberty.” Annie Polland uses elements of the building’s architecture—the façade, the benches, the grooves worn into the sanctuary floor—as points of departure to discuss themes, people, and trends at various moments in the synagogue’s history, particularly during its heyday from 1887 until the 1930s. Exploring the synagogue’s rich archives, the author shines new light on the religious life of immigrant Jews, introduces various rabbis, cantors and congregants, and analyzes the significance of this special building in the context of the larger American-Jewish experience. For more information, go to: www.EldridgeStreet.org

Author : Henry Stolzman,Daniel Stolzman
Publisher : Images Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Jews
ISBN : 1864700742

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Synagogue Architecture in America by Henry Stolzman,Daniel Stolzman Pdf

This full colour publication explores the rich and diverse response to the quest to sustain the Hebrew heritage that has resulted in prominent designs.

Author : Lee Shai Weissbach
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300127652

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Jewish Life in Small-Town America by Lee Shai Weissbach Pdf

In this book, Lee Shai Weissbach offers the first comprehensive portrait of small-town Jewish life in America. Exploring the history of communities of 100 to 1000 Jews, the book focuses on the years from the mid-nineteenth century to World War II. Weissbach examines the dynamics of 490 communities across the United States and reveals that smaller Jewish centers were not simply miniature versions of larger communities but were instead alternative kinds of communities in many respects. The book investigates topics ranging from migration patterns to occupational choices, from Jewish education and marriage strategies to congregational organization. The story of smaller Jewish communities attests to the richness and complexity of American Jewish history and also serves to remind us of the diversity of small-town society in times past.

Author : Larry Bortniker,Bonnie Dimun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Jewish museums
ISBN : 1857597184

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Beyond the Façade by Larry Bortniker,Bonnie Dimun Pdf

Celebrates the history, restoration and renewal of the Eldridge Street Synagogue in New York City's Lower East Side, featuring the new window by contemporary artist Kiki Smith.

Author : Jack Wertheimer
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 1584656700

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Imagining the American Jewish Community by Jack Wertheimer Pdf

A lively collection of sixteen essays on the many ways American Jews have imagined and constructed communities

Author : Barry L. Stiefel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317320326

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Jews and the Renaissance of Synagogue Architecture, 1450–1730 by Barry L. Stiefel Pdf

Before the mid-fifteenth century, the Christian and Islamic governments of Europe had restricted the architecture and design of synagogues and often prevented Jews from becoming architects. Stiefel presents a study of the material culture and religious architecture that this era produced.