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Shul with a Pool: The "Synagogue-Center" in American Jewish History (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life) Paperback - 1999

by Kaufman, David


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Around the turn of the 20th century the idea of combining the Jewish house of worship with a center for community, educational, and social activities arose as a way of melding and meeting the needs of Jews in a changing social and religious environment. David Kaufman's fascinating examination shows how a quintessentially American institution -- the synagogue-center -- evolved into the primary locus of Jewish identification in this country. This study encompasses social, religious, architectural, and American Jewish history to clarify the synagogue-center's many roles: as service agency, communal gathering place, unifying symbol, and sectarian institution fostering Jewish culture and education. But Kaufman also shows that as a unique amalgam of the religious and the secular, these centers embody a basic duality of American Jewish identity, a fundamental tension between Jews who see themselves primarily as members of a religious faith, and those who define themselves in more sociopolitical terms, that is, as nationality, as ethnic group, as a people. By presenting itself as an alternative to the traditional synagogue, the synagogue-center serves as an historic departure in the construction of Jewish community and remains one of the most significant innovations of American Judaism.

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  • Title Shul with a Pool: The "Synagogue-Center" in American Jewish History (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life)
  • Author Kaufman, David
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Printing
  • Pages 349
  • Publisher Brandeis, Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S.A
  • Date 1999-01
  • ISBN 9780874518931
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