Jewish Life and American Culture

Jewish Life and American Culture
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Publisher : SUNY Press
Total Pages : 266
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ISBN-10 : 0791445453
ISBN-13 : 9780791445457
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Book Synopsis Jewish Life and American Culture by : Sylvia Barack Fishman

Download or read book Jewish Life and American Culture written by Sylvia Barack Fishman and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2000-05-04 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jews in the United States are uniquely American in their connections to Jewish religion and ethnicity. Sylvia Barack Fishman in her groundbreaking book, Jewish Life and American Culture, shows that contemporary Jews have created a hybrid new form of Judaism, merging American values and behaviors with those from historical Jewish traditions. Fishman introduces a new concept called coalescence, an adaptation technique through which Jews merge American and Jewish elements. The author generates data from diverse sources in the social sciences and humanities, including the 1990 National Jewish Population Survey and other statistical studies, interviews and focus groups, popular and material culture, literature and film, to demonstrate the pervasiveness of coalescence.


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