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Authors: Samuel C. Heilman
ISBN-13: 9780520247635, ISBN-10: 0520247639
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: July 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Samuel C. Heilman

Samuel C. Heilman is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and holds the Harold M. Proshansky Chair in Jewish Studies and Sociology at the City University of New York. He is also on the faculty of Queens College, CUNY. Heilman is the author of When a Jew Dies: The Ethnography of a Bereaved Son (California, 2002), winner of the National Jewish Book Award and the Koret Jewish Book Award; Defenders of the Faith (California, 1999); and Synagogue Life (1998), among other books.

Book Synopsis

"Heilman is one of the most productive, interesting, and important sociologists writing about Jewish communities in the world today. This book is a significant snapshot, filled with Heilman's fine-grained observations of particular cultural practices such as humor, posters, and Rabbi portraits. Heilman is a first-rate thinker, an excellent researcher whose work is richly empirical, and an unusually clear and lively writer."—Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, author of Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage

Table of Contents

1Orthodoxy in America after the Holocaust15
2The numbers62
3Jewish education as a field of conflict within orthodoxy78
4Reinventing tradition : when going by the book replaces living on the street127
5Machon L'Parnasa : the educational alternative140
6Much truth said in jest : humor, role distance, and young orthodox Jews180
7Orthodox Jewish calls from the walls : posters and what they teach us211
8Toward a postmodern American orthodoxy296

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