Compiling a Bibliography סf American Jewish Liturgy through 1925

2000 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-57
Author(s):  
Sharona Wachs
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
American Jews ◽  
The Press ◽  
American Jewish ◽  
Jewish Liturgy ◽  
Union College

The experience of compiling a bibliography of American Jewish liturgy from the establishment of the press through 1925 is discussed. The parameters of the bibliography are detailed as well as its contents. The present lack of complete or systematic documentation of American Jewish liturgy in Judaica libraries is noted. Also discussed is the significance of liturgy for the study of American Jews, their religious and cultural identity, as well as their demographics. This paper details the experience of compiling a bibliography of American Jewish liturgy through 1925, and describes some of the parameters and contents of the bibliography. This bibliography was published by Hebrew Union College Press in late 1997 under the title American Jewish Liturgies: A Bibliography of American Jewish Liturgy from the Establishment of the Press in the Colonies through 1925.

Creating American Reform Judaism

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sefton D. Temkin
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Community ◽  
New World ◽  
Jewish Life ◽  
Reform Judaism ◽  
American Jews ◽  
Prayer Book ◽  
American Jewish ◽  
Jewish Prayer ◽  
Union College

Isaac Mayer Wise (1819–1900), founder of the major institutions of Reform Judaism in America, was a man of his time — a pioneer in a pioneer’s world. When he came to America from his childhood Bohemia in 1846, he found fewer than 50,000 Jews and only two ordained rabbis. With his sense of mission and tireless energy, he set himself to tailoring the vehicle of Reform Judaism to meet the needs of the growing Jewish community. Wise strove for unity among American Jews, and for a college to train rabbis to serve them. The establishment of Hebrew Union College (1875) was the crowning achievement of his life. His quest for unity also led him to draw up an American Jewish prayer-book, Minhag America, to found the Central Conference of American Rabbis, and to edit two weeklies; their editorials, breathing fire and energy, were no less important in his quest for leadership. Here as elsewhere, it was his persistence that won him the war where his impetuosity lost him many battles. This book captures the vigour of Wise’s personality and the politics and concerns of contemporary Jewish life and leadership in America. The biography is a lively portrait of a rabbi whose singular efforts in many fields made him a pivotal figure in the naturalization of the Jew and Judaism in the New World.

People of the Picture Book

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel B. Gross
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Picture Book ◽  
Religious Activity ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
American Jews ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
American Jewish ◽  
Reading To Children ◽  
Jewish Families

Since 2005, a philanthropic organization, PJ Books, has set out to influence American Jews by reaching them in one of their most tender, intimate family moments: parents reading to children. The program uses children's books to influence Jewish families' values and practices. This chapter argues that PJ Library demonstrates the burden that American Jewish institutions place on popular culture to shape their communities. Though staff members deny that PJ Library is engaged in religious activity, the organization does, in fact, use children's books as a tool to shape American Jewish religion. It uses children's books to introduce families to or reinforce their connection with sacred rituals and Jewish customs. More broadly, PJ Library seeks to persuade American Jewish families to make Judaism an important part of their lives and to connect them, one illustrated book at a time, to networks that will help them do so.

What Kind of Job Is That for a Nice Jewish Boy?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Kranson
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Upward Mobility ◽  
The Self ◽  
American Jews ◽  
New Models ◽  
Economic Position ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
American Jewish

In the 1950s and early 1960s, American Jews wrestled with new models of masculinity that their new economic position enabled. For many American Jewish novelists, intellectuals, and clergy of the 1950s and early 1960s, the communal pressure on Jewish men to become middle-class breadwinners betrayed older, more Jewishly-authentic, notions of appropriate masculinity. Their writing promoted alternative, Jewish masculine ideals such as the impoverished scholar and the self-sacrificing soldier, crafting a profoundly gendered critique of Jewish upward mobility.

Race and American Judaism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samira K. Mehta
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Racial Diversity ◽  
American Jews ◽  
Jewish Immigration ◽  
American Judaism ◽  
American Jewry ◽  
Civil Rights Movements ◽  
The Face ◽  
White Majority ◽  
American Jewish

Jews in America have had a complex relationship to race. At times, they have been described as a racial minority, whereas at other times, they have been able to assimilate into the white majority. Jewish status has largely depended on whether white Americans felt, in any given moment, socially secure. Jews have therefore fared better during times of economic prosperity. This social instability has strongly affected their relationship to African Americans. Jews, who have a strong sense of themselves as outsiders, have often identified with African American struggles but feared that overt solidarity would endanger their own status as white. Nevertheless, American Jews were disproportionately represented in the civil rights movements. Lastly, while American Jewish are predominantly Ashkenazi, which is to say of Central and Eastern European heritage, contemporary American Jewry is increasingly racially diverse, in part because of Jewish immigration from other parts of the world but also because of interfaith marriage, conversion, and adoption. This increased racial diversity has caused problems in the contemporary American Jewish community, but it is also changing the face of it.

scholarly journals The Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) and the Luso-African identity

Politeja ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (5 (68)) ◽  
pp. 193-215
Author(s):  
Joanna Mormul
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Official Language ◽  
African Continent ◽  
African Identity ◽  
Political Cooperation ◽  
The Press ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
The Subject

The article aims at searching for the correlation between the Luso-African identity, understood as a form of cultural identity based on the concept of Lusophony, and The Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP), an international organisation that brings together countries whose official language is Portuguese. The CPLP is considered as an institutional emanation of the idea of Lusophony. However, for almost 25 years since its creation it still receives a lot of criticism. Despite the multiplicity of initiatives that it proposed, for a long time it seemed that the CPLP did not really move beyond the concept phase. Furthermore, until recently the organisation has focused mainly on cultural and political cooperation, leaving behind its enormous economic possibilities and provoking questions about an untapped potential of the CPLP. The paper attempts to reflect on the hypothesis that the limited capacities of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries regarding the African continent are, at least partially, related to the problem with Luso-African identity. The considerations presented in the article are based on the critical reading of the literature of the subject, qualitative analysis of the already existing data (official documents and the press, available statistics), as well as the author’s reflections drawn from observations, interviews and informal talks conducted during field research in Mozambique (2015) and Guinea-Bissau (2016), along with multiple study visits to Portugal (2011-2016), while realizing the research project devoted to the problem of state dysfunctionality in the Lusophone Africa.

scholarly journals Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger [Pope Benedict XVI] - Truth and Tolerance: Christian Belief and World Religions

ICR Journal ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 724-727
Author(s):  
Christoph Marcinkowski
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Christian Belief ◽  
World Religions ◽  
Theology Of Religions ◽  
Pope Benedict Xvi ◽  
Benedict Xvi ◽  
Interfaith Relations ◽  
The Press ◽  
German Edition

Pope Benedict XVI has dealt in quite a number of his works with the issues of secularisation and contemporary religious and cultural identity. Many of these works are now also readily accessible in English. It would be a rewarding task to collate his approach with those of thinking representatives of contemporary Muslim thought. In Truth and Tolerance, Benedict - still Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the time when its original German edition went to the press - presents, aside from some new contributions, milestone-articles that he has published over the last 15 years in the field of ‘theology of religions’ in various journals. What Benedict has to say about interfaith relations today might also be of interest to the audience of this journal, since he is in the Muslim world - usually exclusively (and perhaps selectively) - associated with his 2006 ‘Regensburg lecture’ which was perceived by some as misrepresenting the religion of Islam.

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