Ethnicity, American Judaism, and Jewish Cohesion

Publication Date: January 1990

Publisher: Prentice-Hall, inc.

Author(s): Calvin Goldscheider

Research Area: Culture and religion

Keywords: American Jews; Jewish identification

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

The chapter focuses on two themes: 1) the patterns of secularization in Jewish religious behavior and identification and (2) the emergence of alternative forms of Jewish expression. The overriding concern is with the ways in which Jewish cohesion and continuity are manifest in the community.