The Cambridge companion to American Judaism / edited by Dana Evan Kaplan. - Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2005. - xxvi, 462 p. ; 24 cm. - Cambridge companions to religion . - Cambridge companions to religion. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 423-432) and index.

Preservation to innovation : Judaism in America, 1654-1880 / Eli Faber -- American Judaism, 1880-1945 / Lloyd P. Gartner -- Trends in American Judaism from 1945 to the present / Dana Evan Kaplan -- Jewish religious denominations / Lawrence Grossman -- Patterns of American Jewish religious behavior / Chaim Waxman -- Thinking Judaism through : Jewish theology in America / Byron L. Sherwin -- The essence of American Judaism / Charles Liebman -- Contemporary Jewish education / Isa Aron, Michael Zeldin, and Sara S. Lee -- The place of Judaism in American Jewish identity / Debra Renee Kaufman -- The Holocaust in Jewish American life / Lynn Rapaport -- Long distance nationalism : American Jews, Zionism, and Israel / Steven T. Rosenthal -- Life cycle rituals : rites of passage in American Judaism / Rela Mintz Geffen -- Choosing lives : evolving gender roles in American Jewish families / Sylvia Barack Fishman -- The body and sexuality in American Jewish culture / David Biale -- The American Jewish urban experience / Nathan Glazer -- "Sacred survival" revisited : American Jewish civil religion in the new millennium / Jonathan Woocher -- Judaism and democracy in America / Alan Mittleman -- The economics of American Judaism / Carmel U. Chiswick -- American Judaism and interfaith dialogue / Yaakov Ariel -- American midrash : urban Jewish writing & the reclaiming of Judaism / Murray Baumgarten -- Recent trends in new American Jewish music / Mark Kligman -- The visual arts in the American Jewish experience / Matthew Baigell -- American Judaism in the twenty-first century / Bruce Phillips.

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