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Author Cohn-Sherbok, Dan.

Title The American Jew : voices from an American Jewish community / Dan Cohn-Sherbok and Lavinia Cohn-Sherbok.

Imprint Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1995.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.892 C678A    Check Shelf
Description 357 pages : map ; 23 cm
Contents A tour of Jewish metropolis -- Congregational rabbis -- Congregational leaders -- Community leaders -- Teachers -- Insiders serving the community -- The young -- The old -- Business and professional people -- The non-conformists -- Ambassadors to the gentile world -- Converts -- Outsiders looking in.
Summary The American Jewish community is more influential than ever before. Who are these Jews? Do they speak with one voice? How have they become so rich and powerful? What do their non-Jewish neighbors think about them? American rabbi Dan Cohn-Sherbok and his wife, Lavinia, spent four months in a typical midwestern city finding the answers to these questions. Through more than one hundred engaging interviews, individuals from a broad spectrum of Jewish life -- an Orthodox rabbi, a self-made millionaire, a doting grandmother, an Auschwitz survivor, an eighteen-year-old debutante, and many more -- speak for themselves about their lives as American Jews. As gripping as the best fiction, their stories provide a unique and strikingly accurate snapshot of American Jewry in the 1990s. - Back cover.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Subject Jews -- United States -- Interviews.
Jews -- United States -- Identity.
Judaism -- United States.
Judaism -- 20th century.
United States -- Ethnic relations.
Ethnic relations. (OCoLC)fst00916005
Jews. (OCoLC)fst00983135
Jews -- Identity. (OCoLC)fst00983278
Judaism. (OCoLC)fst00984280
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Jüdische Gemeinde.
United States.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Interviews. (OCoLC)fst01423832
Added Author Cohn-Sherbok, Lavinia.
Other Form: Online version: Cohn-Sherbok, Dan. American Jew. Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1995 (OCoLC)652345065
ISBN 0802841384 (paper ; alk. paper)
9780802841384 (paper ; alk. paper)
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