Portrait of American Jews: The Last Half of the Twentieth CenturyHas 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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| Title | Portrait of American Jews: The Last Half of the Twentieth Century Book collections on Project MUSE Portrait of American Jews: The Last Half of the 20th Century, Samuel C. Heilman Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectu The Samuel and Althea Stroum lectures in Jewish studies |
| Author | Samuel C Heilman |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | University of Washington Press, 1995 |
| ISBN | 0295974710, 9780295974712 |
| Length | 190 pages |
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