The New Jewish Leaders: Reshaping the American Jewish Landscape
The first thing to be said about this book is that it is much more about Jewish communal institutions than religion. But Jews are a community and a religion, and Judaism is embedded within that community. As Robert Putnam observed in Bowling Alone, large and venerable Jewish organizations such as Ha...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2013
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2013, Volume: 74, Issue: 3, Pages: 422-423 |
| Review of: | The new Jewish leaders (Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis Univ. Press, 2011) (Phillips, Bruce A.)
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| Summary: | The first thing to be said about this book is that it is much more about Jewish communal institutions than religion. But Jews are a community and a religion, and Judaism is embedded within that community. As Robert Putnam observed in Bowling Alone, large and venerable Jewish organizations such as Hadassah and B'nai B'rith have steadily been losing members (Putnam 2000). But this is not the whole story. “Even as established institutions have contracted,” explains Wertheimer in the preface, “a countervailing trend has become evident: a host of new initiatives has been launched to reach into very corner of the community in order to make place for as many Jews as possible” (vii). The contributors to this volume look at both the new organizations and their young (under 40) leaders. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srt029 |