Jewish Life and American Culture

Jews in the United States are uniquely American in their connections to Jewish religion and ethnicity. Sylvia Barack Fishman in her groundbreaking book, Jewish Life and American Culture, shows that contemporary Jews have created a hybrid new form of Judaism, merging American values and behaviors with those from historical Jewish traditions.

Fishman introduces a new concept called coalescence, an adaptation technique through which Jews merge American and Jewish elements.

The author generates data from diverse sources in the social sciences and humanities, including the 1990 National Jewish Population Survey and other statistical studies, interviews and focus groups, popular and material culture, literature and film, to demonstrate the pervasiveness of coalescence.

At Brandeis University, Sylvia Barack Fishman is Associate Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life/Sociology of American Jews in the Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Department and the Co-Director of the Hadassah International Research Institute on Jewish Women.

List of Tables and Figures

ix

Foreword

xiii

Acknowledgments

xvii

Introduction Analyzing the Evidence

1

(14)

Coalescing American and Jewish Values

15

(18)

Tracing Educational and Occupational Patterns

33

(20)

Learning about Jewish Education

53

(22)

Educating for Jewish Living

75

(18)

Forming Jewish Households and Families

93

(30)

Observing Religious Environments in Jewish Homes

123

(30)

Profiling Jewish Organizational Connections

153

(26)

Negotiating Both Sides of the Hyphen

179

(12)

Appendix

191

(20)

Notes

211

(24)

Subject Index

235

(4)

Index of Names

239

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Jewish Life and American Culture

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