The synagogue in America [electronic resource] : a short history / Marc Lee Raphael.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: New York : New York University Press, c2011. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (vii, 247 p. :) illContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780814769300
- 0814769306
- 296.6/50973 22
- BM205 .R372 2011
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.
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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