Book Reviews: "Towards the Twenty-first Century: Judaism and the Jewish People in Israel and America: Essays in Honor of Rabbi Leon Kronish on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday" and "God's Choice: The Total World of a Fundamentalist Christian School"

Publication Date: January 1992

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Paul H. Ephross; David Resnick

Research Area: Culture and religion

Keywords: Religion; Literature; Education

Type: Book review

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

"Towards the Twenty-first Century: Judaism and the Jewish People in Israel and America: Essays in Honor of Rabbi Leon Kronish on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday", edited by Ronald Kronish. KTAV Publishing House, Hoboken, NJ, 1988. This festschrift is a collection of essays on virtually every aspect of the organized Jewish communiry of the United States, its relationship to Israel, and selected aspects of Israeli society, all from the perspective of the mid-to-late 1980s. "God's Choice: The Total World of a Fundamentalist Christian School" by Alan Peshkin. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1986. Alan Peshkin's book is of interest in three distinct domains: effective education, religious education, and qualitative research methods in education.