Jewish Life and American Culture (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	State University of New York Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	SUNY series in American Jewish Society in the 1990s
Release date:	May 2000
Authors:	Sylvia Barack Fishman
Dimensions:	241 x 159mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	260
ISBN-13:	978-0-7914-4545-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Jewish studies
LSN:	0-7914-4545-3
Barcode:	9780791445457

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