Contemporary American Judaism: Transformation and Renewal

by Dana Evan Kaplan

Book Overview

No longer controlled by a handful of institutional leaders based in remote headquarters and rabbinical seminaries, American Judaism is being transformed by the spiritual decisions of tens of thousands of Jews living all over the United States. A pulpit rabbi and himself an American Jew, Dana Evan Kaplan follows this religious individualism from its postwar suburban roots to the hippie revolution of the 1960s and the multiple postmodern identities...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231137281
• ISBN13: 9780231137287
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 446 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.3"