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Jews in the center : conservative synagogues and their members / edited by Jack Wertheimer.

Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2000]Copyright date: ©2000Description: xii, 407 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0813528216; 9780813528212Subject(s): Conservative Judaism -- United States | Judaism -- 20th century | Jews -- United States -- Social life and customsDDC classification: 296.8/342/0973 LOC classification: BM197.5 | .J48 2000Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Jack Wertheimer -- Assessing the vitality of Conservative Judaism in North America: evidence from a survey of synagogue members / Steven M. Cohen -- Conservative Jewry: a sociodemographic overview / Sidney Goldstein, Alice Goldstein -- Holding firmly with an open hand: life in two conservative synagogues / Samuel C. Heilman -- Public worship: the partnership between families and synagogues / Paul Ritterband -- Coming of age in the conservative synagogue: the Bat/Bar Mitzvah class of 5755 / Barry A. Kosmin -- Communities of choice and memory: conservative synagogues in the late twentieth century / Riv-Ellen Prell -- Conservative Jews within the landscape of American religion / Nancy T. Ammerman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Jack Wertheimer -- Assessing the vitality of Conservative Judaism in North America: evidence from a survey of synagogue members / Steven M. Cohen -- Conservative Jewry: a sociodemographic overview / Sidney Goldstein, Alice Goldstein -- Holding firmly with an open hand: life in two conservative synagogues / Samuel C. Heilman -- Public worship: the partnership between families and synagogues / Paul Ritterband -- Coming of age in the conservative synagogue: the Bat/Bar Mitzvah class of 5755 / Barry A. Kosmin -- Communities of choice and memory: conservative synagogues in the late twentieth century / Riv-Ellen Prell -- Conclusion: Conservative Jews within the landscape of American religion / Nancy T. Ammerman.

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