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The synagogue in America : a short history / Marc Lee Raphael.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : New York University Press, ©2011Description: 1 online resource (vii, 247 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 081477704X
  • 9780814777046
  • 081477704X
  • 9780814769300
  • 0814769306
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Synagogue in America.DDC classification:
  • 296.6/50973 22
LOC classification:
  • BM205 .R372 2011eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
  • 11.20
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Contents:
Building the synagogue community in colonial America : the earliest years -- Reforming Judaism everywhere : ushering in change in the nineteenth century -- An explosion of immigrant synagogues : Jewish mass migration to America -- Conservative and Orthodox Judaism define themsleves : between the wars -- Expanding suburbs and synagogues : the post-World War II years -- Reinventing, experimenting, and reaching up : Judaism after 1967.
Summary: Chronicles the history of the Jewish synagogue in America over the course of three centuries, discussing its changing role in the American Jewish community.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)368441

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Building the synagogue community in colonial America : the earliest years -- Reforming Judaism everywhere : ushering in change in the nineteenth century -- An explosion of immigrant synagogues : Jewish mass migration to America -- Conservative and Orthodox Judaism define themsleves : between the wars -- Expanding suburbs and synagogues : the post-World War II years -- Reinventing, experimenting, and reaching up : Judaism after 1967.

Print version record.

Chronicles the history of the Jewish synagogue in America over the course of three centuries, discussing its changing role in the American Jewish community.