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Who Rules the Synagogue? - Religious Authority and the Formation of American Judaism (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,485
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Who Rules the Synagogue? - Religious Authority and the Formation of American Judaism (Hardcover): Zev Eleff

Who Rules the Synagogue? - Religious Authority and the Formation of American Judaism (Hardcover)

Zev Eleff

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Who Rules the Synagogue? explores how American Jewry in the nineteenth century transformed from a lay dominated community to one whose leading religious authorities were rabbis. Previously, scholars have chartered the religious history of American Judaism during this era, but Zev Eleff reinterprets this history through the lens of religious authority. Early in the century, American Jews consciously excluded rabbinic forces from playing a role in their community's development. By the final decades of the 1800s, ordained rabbis were in full control of America's leading synagogues and large sectors of American Jewish life, most notably in the commotion caused by the Pittsburgh rabbinic conference of 1885. Eleff weaves together the significant episodes and debates that shaped American Judaism during this formative period, and places this story into the larger context of American religious history and modern Jewish history.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: August 2016
Authors: Zev Eleff (Instructor, Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies)
Dimensions: 243 x 163 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-049027-0
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Judaism > General
Books > History > American history > General
Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Judaism > General
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LSN: 0-19-049027-6
Barcode: 9780190490270

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