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The new Jewish leaders : reshaping the American Jewish landscape / edited by Jack Wertheimer.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Brandeis series in American Jewish history, culture, and lifePublication details: Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press, c2011.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 352 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781611681840
  • 1611681847
  • 1283320878
  • 9781283320870
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The new Jewish leadersDDC classification:
  • 305.892/4073 23
LOC classification:
  • E184.36.S65
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Mapping the scene: how younger Jewish adults engage with Jewish community / Jack Wertheimer -- From Jewish people to Jewish purpose: establishment leaders and their non-establishment successors / Steven M. Cohen -- Expressive, progressive, and protective: three impulses for innovative organizing among young Jews today / Steven M. Cohen -- Young Jewish leaders in Los Angeles: strengthening the Jewish people in conventional and unconventional ways / Sarah Bunin Benor -- Reimagining Jewishness: younger American Jewish leaders, entrepreneurs, and artists in cultural context / Sylvia Barack Fishman, with Rachel S. Bernstein and Emily Sigalow -- The reality of the virtual: looking for Jewish leadership online / Ari Y. Kelman -- In its own image: independent philanthropy and the cultivation of young Jewish leadership / Shaul Kelner.
Summary: A riveting study of a generational transition with major implications for American Jewish life.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mapping the scene: how younger Jewish adults engage with Jewish community / Jack Wertheimer -- From Jewish people to Jewish purpose: establishment leaders and their non-establishment successors / Steven M. Cohen -- Expressive, progressive, and protective: three impulses for innovative organizing among young Jews today / Steven M. Cohen -- Young Jewish leaders in Los Angeles: strengthening the Jewish people in conventional and unconventional ways / Sarah Bunin Benor -- Reimagining Jewishness: younger American Jewish leaders, entrepreneurs, and artists in cultural context / Sylvia Barack Fishman, with Rachel S. Bernstein and Emily Sigalow -- The reality of the virtual: looking for Jewish leadership online / Ari Y. Kelman -- In its own image: independent philanthropy and the cultivation of young Jewish leadership / Shaul Kelner.

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A riveting study of a generational transition with major implications for American Jewish life.