Portrait of American Jews: The Last Half of the Twentieth Century

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University of Washington Press, 1995 - 190 pages
Has America been a place that has preserved and protected Jewish life? Is it a place in which a Jewish future is ensured? Samuel Heilman, long-time observer of American Jewish life, grapples with these questions from a sociologist’s perspective. He argues that the same conditions that have allowed Jews to live in relative security since the 1950s have also presented them with a greater challenge than did the adversity and upheaval of earlier years.
 

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Prologue
3
Starting Over Acculturation and Suburbia the Jews of the 1950s
8
The Emergence of Two Types of Jews Choices Made in the 1960s and 1970s
47
Quality versus Quantity The Challenge of the 1980s and 1990s
101
Notes
165
Index
187
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