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Publication Date: December 1985
Publisher: Rabbinical Assembly of America
Author(s): Samuel C. Heilman
Research Area: Culture and religion
Keywords: Ethnography; Future; Jewish Religion and Culture; Synagogues
Type: Other
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
This article emphasizes the importance of leaving behind a record of present community life. The author argues for a new archive of ethnography, where the cultural wealth that is Jewish synagogue life in America can be stored. Such an archive will serve not only as a most valuable resource for students and scholars examining the character of synagogue life in America; it will also act as a vehicle for giving synagogue communities a consciousness of their own worth.
In Conservative Judaism vol.36, no.2 (Winter 1985-86), pp.56-66.