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BL
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639095
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Furman, Frida Kerner,1948-
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Beyond yiddishkeit : : the struggle for Jewish identity in a Reform synagogue /\ Frida Kerner Furman.
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| Publication Statement
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Albany :: State University of New York Press,, c1987.
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| Series Statement
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SUNY series in anthropology and Judaic studies
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ix, 157 p. ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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0887065139
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: 9780887065132
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: 0887065147 (pbk.)
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: 9780887065149 (pbk.)
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| Notes
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Includes index.
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Bibliography: p. 143-153.
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| Contents
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The transformation of Jewish identity -- Traditional Jewish society -- The religious dimension -- The individual and the group -- The power of the past -- The move to modernity -- The dissolution of traditional Jewish society -- Alternative Jewish paths -- The American experience -- Tradition and modernity: a false dichotomy -- Temple Shalom: setting and reform context -- Temple Shalom today -- The membership -- Professional staff -- Organizational structure -- The religious school -- The reform movement in America -- Ideology and identity -- Liberalism -- Social activism -- The Jewish tradition -- The Yarmulke controversy -- The question of Jewish content -- Summary and conclusions -- Ritual and identity -- The ritual context -- The Sabbath service -- The prayerbook -- The normative ritual -- The chaverim service: ritual of reversal analysis -- Community and identity -- The construction of community: uniqueness and identity -- The Temple Shalom family -- Differentiation from the Jewish community -- Style -- Temple Shalom as community -- Conclusions -- The sacralization of identity -- The liberal ethic -- Universalism and individualism -- Rationality -- Secularism -- The construction of a new ethic.
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Judaism-- United States.
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Reform Judaism-- United States.
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Jews-- United States-- Identity.
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Synagogues-- United States.
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| LC Classification
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BM205.F87 1987
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