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Article: Portrait of American Jews: The Last Half of the 20th Century.
- Article from:
- Sociology of Religion
- Article date:
- March 22, 1997
- Author:
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This volume of three interrelated essays represents a thorough and balanced review of the patterns of Jewish life in the United States in the last half of the 20th century. The analysis by Samuel Heilman, the foremost social anthropologist of American Judaism, lays out the challenges, identifies the issues, and captures the basis for understanding the unfolding of critical changes in the internal life of American Jews. His approach is broad and informative as he reviews changes in Jewish communities and culture, the basis of their unity and diversity, the fears and strengths of Jews and their institutions and their leadership elite. These observations are presented in clear, ...