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American Jews the Separationist Faith
Author | : David G. Dalin |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015029298539 |
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During the past half century, most American Jews believed that religion should be rigorously separated from public life. Forty Jewish writers, professors, lawyers, rabbis, and policy analysts offer varying perspectives on what the role of religion in American publish life should be and describe how their opinions might have changed. Postponed from June.
Religion and State in the American Jewish Experience
Author | : Jonathan D. Sarna,David G. Dalin |
Publsiher | : University of Notre Dame Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Church and state |
ISBN | : 0268016542 |
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This text focuses on what it means to be Jewish in America and the different positions held within the Jewish community on past and present church-state issues - whether Orthodox Jews in the military should wear yarmulkes while in uniform - and if Jewish prisoners have a right to Kosher food.
Jews and the American Public Square
Author | : Alan Mittleman,Robert Licht,Jonathan D. Sarna |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0742521249 |
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Jews and the American Public Square is a study of how Jews have grappled with the presence of religion, both their own and others, in American public life. It surveys historical Jewish approaches to church-state relations and analyzes Jewish responses to the religion clauses of the First Amendment. The book also explores how the contemporary sociological and political characteristics of American Jews bear on their understanding of the public dimensions of American religion. In addition to a descriptive and analytic approach. the volume is also critical and polemical. Its contributors attack and defend prevailing views, raise critical questions about the political and intellectual positions favored by American Jews, and propose new syntheses. This book captures the current mood of the Jewish community: both committed to the separation of church and state and perplexed about its scope and application. It provides the necessary background for a principled reconsideration of the problem of religion in the public square.
Jews in Christian America
Author | : Naomi Wiener Cohen |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Constitutional history |
ISBN | : 9780195065374 |
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A driving force in the history of American Jews has been the pursuit of religious equality under law. Jews reasoned that state and federal legislation or public practices which sanctioned religious, specifically Christian, usages blocked their path to full integration within society. Always a small minority and ever fearful of the outspoken proponents of the Christian state, nineteenth-century Jews became ardent defenders of church-state separation. In the twentieth century, Jewish defense organizations took a prominent role in landmark court cases on religion in the schools, Sunday laws, and public displays of Christian symbols. Over the last two centuries, Jews shifted from support of a neutral-to-all-religions government to a divorced-from-religion government, and from defense of their own interests to the defense of other religious minorities. Jews in Christian America traces in historical context the response of American Jews to the issues presented by a Christian-flavored public religion. Discussing the contributions of each major wave of Jewish immigrants to the reinforcement of a separationist stand, Cohen shows how Jewish communal priorities, pressures from the larger society, and Jewish-Christian relationships fashioned that response. She also makes clear that the Jewish community was never totally united on the goals and tactics of a separationist posture; despite the continued predominance of the strict separationists, others argued the adverse effects of that position on communal well-being and on the very survival of Judaism.
The Ambivalent American Jew
Author | : Charles S. Liebman |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015066036206 |
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Faith Or Fear
Author | : Elliott Abrams |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Christianity and other religions |
ISBN | : 9780684825113 |
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The author addresses the loss of Jewish identity in a Christian Society, and calls for Jews to return to their heritage.
Haven and Home
Author | : Abraham J. Karp |
Publsiher | : Schocken |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UCAL:B4438538 |
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American Heretics
Author | : Peter Gottschalk |
Publsiher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2013-11-12 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781137401311 |
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In the middle of the nineteenth century a group of political activists in New York City joined together to challenge a religious group they believed were hostile to the American values of liberty and freedom. Called the Know Nothings, they started riots during elections, tarred and feathered their political enemies, and barred men from employment based on their religion. The group that caused this uproar?: Irish and German Catholics—then known as the most villainous religious group in America, and widely believed to be loyal only to the Pope. It would take another hundred years before Catholics threw off these xenophobic accusations and joined the American mainstream. The idea that the United States is a stronghold of religious freedom is central to our identity as a nation—and utterly at odds with the historical record. In American Heretics, historian Peter Gottschalk traces the arc of American religious discrimination and shows that, far from the dominant protestant religions being kept in check by the separation between church and state, religious groups from Quakers to Judaism have been subjected to similar patterns of persecution. Today, many of these same religious groups that were once regarded as anti-thetical to American values are embraced as evidence of our strong religious heritage—giving hope to today's Muslims, Sikhs, and other religious groups now under fire.