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Publication Date: January 1981
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Author(s): Samuel C. Heilman
Research Area: Culture and religion
Keywords: American Jews; Religious denominations
Type: Report
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
The purpose of this article is to examine a critical dimension of the mechanisms by which modern Orthodox Jews have carried out their cosmological oscillations: reinterpretation. The increased mobility, education, and accompanying general involvement of Orthodox Jews in contemporary America, along with a "contraacculturative" trend toward flamboyant and aggressive assertions of ethnic Orthodoxy, placed such reinterpretation of past and present and the continuity it allows among perhaps the most crucial ideological tasks for the traditionalist moderns.