Returning to Tradition: The Contemporary Revival of Orthodox Judaism

by M. Herbert Danzger

Book Overview

In recent years, numbers of young American and Israeli Jews raised in nonreligious families have chosen to become practicing Orthodox Jews, eating only food that is kosher, abstaining from all work on the Sabbath, and observing laws of family purity that require periodic sexual abstinence for husband and wife and modesty in dress and behavior.
This comprehensive study of the revival of Orthodox Judaism was written by M. Herbert Danzger, a sociologist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300105592
• ISBN13: 9780300105599
• Release Date: April 1989
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"