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Modern Orthodoxy in American Judaism : The Era of Rabbi Leo Jung / Maxine Jacobson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Orthodox JudaismPublisher: Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (262 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781618114372
  • 9781618114389
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Modern Orthodoxy in the 1920s -- 2. Modern Orthodoxy in the 1930s -- 3. Modern Orthodoxy in the 1940s -- 4. Modern Orthodoxy in the 1950s -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: This work presents the issues of Modern Orthodox Judaism in America, from the decades of the twenties to the sixties, by looking at the activities of one of its leaders, Rabbi Dr. Leo Jung, pulpit rabbi, community leader and writer, whose career spanned over sixty years, beginning in the 1920s. Jung is a fulcrum around which many issues are explored. Rabbi Jung's path crossed with some of the most interesting people of his time. He worked with Chaim Weizmann, the first president of Israel, with Albert Einstein to promote Yeshiva College, with Herman Wouk, American author and Pulitzer Prize winner, and with Pearl Buck, a Nobel Prize laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner. Modern Orthodoxy went from being a threatened entity on the American scene to a well- recognized and respected force in Judaism. Orthodoxy, at first, was seen as alien to the American environment. Marshall Sklare ,perhaps the most influential exponent of this notion, wrote in the 1950s that the history of Orthodoxy in America could be written in terms of a case study of institutional decay. He realized the errors of his ways in the 1970s. This is the story of the renaissance of American Modern Orthodoxy, from the disorganization of the older Orthodoxy to the new spirit of confidence that emerged after World War Two. The phenomenon of Modern Orthodoxy is examined in the context of Orthodox invigoration and change. This book has relevance for further studies in various areas. It is part of the study of religious acculturation, of the conflict between tradition and modernity and of religious reinvigoration in a secular society.
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Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Modern Orthodoxy in the 1920s -- 2. Modern Orthodoxy in the 1930s -- 3. Modern Orthodoxy in the 1940s -- 4. Modern Orthodoxy in the 1950s -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

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This work presents the issues of Modern Orthodox Judaism in America, from the decades of the twenties to the sixties, by looking at the activities of one of its leaders, Rabbi Dr. Leo Jung, pulpit rabbi, community leader and writer, whose career spanned over sixty years, beginning in the 1920s. Jung is a fulcrum around which many issues are explored. Rabbi Jung's path crossed with some of the most interesting people of his time. He worked with Chaim Weizmann, the first president of Israel, with Albert Einstein to promote Yeshiva College, with Herman Wouk, American author and Pulitzer Prize winner, and with Pearl Buck, a Nobel Prize laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner. Modern Orthodoxy went from being a threatened entity on the American scene to a well- recognized and respected force in Judaism. Orthodoxy, at first, was seen as alien to the American environment. Marshall Sklare ,perhaps the most influential exponent of this notion, wrote in the 1950s that the history of Orthodoxy in America could be written in terms of a case study of institutional decay. He realized the errors of his ways in the 1970s. This is the story of the renaissance of American Modern Orthodoxy, from the disorganization of the older Orthodoxy to the new spirit of confidence that emerged after World War Two. The phenomenon of Modern Orthodoxy is examined in the context of Orthodox invigoration and change. This book has relevance for further studies in various areas. It is part of the study of religious acculturation, of the conflict between tradition and modernity and of religious reinvigoration in a secular society.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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