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Deceptive Images is a profoundly thoughtful effort by a social
scientist-who is a participant observer in American Jewish life-to
come to terms with his concerns about how American Jews and Judaism
have been studied, and his sensitivity to the policy implications
of such studies. Liebman writes about what he cares deeply about;
as a social scientist he is able to use concepts and theories in
which he has been trained, although not without a sense of their
limitations. In the passionately argued book that results, Liebman
contends that those concerned with American Jews, both social
scientists and communal leaders, have placed too much emphasis on
what Jews do and too little emphasis on Judaism itself. Because
they have depended too much on quantitative studies to help them
understand contemporary American Jews, they have given too little
encouragement to efforts to probe the meaning of Judaism in the
lives of American Jews. This stimulating volume takes exception to
the notion that American Jewish life is flourishing. It calls for
reassessment both of the study of American Judaism and the
priorities of American Jewish organizations.
It outlines the major issues involved in the study of religion and
politics and then deals with the impact of political culture on
religion and religion on political culture; the problems which
religion raises for a democratic society and the need for religion
to unify society; the problems involved in attempting to
operationalize the vision of a religious state; and the
consequences of religious fundamentalism for the political
system.
"Religion, Democracy and Israeli Society" illuminates critical
aspects in the study of religion and politics in one society; the
state of Israel.
First Published in 1997. The essays in this volume are revisions,
in some cases substantial, to the 1995 Sherman Lectures which the
author delivered at SOAS, the School of Oriental and African
Studies of the University of London.
Collected essays by a preeminent authority on American Jewish
history.
The emergence of the metropolitan complex as the characteristic
urban form in the United States has raised the question of the
adequacy of traditional local governments to cope with changed
local conditions. Most studies on this subject have focused on the
attempts by suburbs to achieve metropolitan forms of government,
stressing the interdependence of local units of government and the
resulting need for integrative governments to formulate and execute
area-wide policies. This book takes note of the failures of the
metropolitan governmental proposals and turns attention to the
forces for decentralization in the government of metropolitan
areas. In other words, this is a study of the forces for
independence-the values that impel local units to cherish and
protect their separate identities. It seeks to describe these
values not as sentiments, but as actual public policies realized
through the actions of local governments. Specifically, it analyzes
the way in which local municipal and school fiscal policies and the
patterns of inter-local cooperative arrangements reflect the
discrete circumstances of the individual suburbs. The locus of the
study is the Philadelphia area, but its findings will be of
interest to a national as well as a local audience. Approximately
300 municipalities are covered in the analysis. The findings of the
study are discussed for their implications for future changes in
the governing of metropolitan areas. Although scholarly in its
approach to urban problems, this empirical study has been written
in a way that will make it understandable and valuable to the lay
reader. It is illustrated with maps and charts, and includes a
lengthy statistical appendix.
Throughout their history, the affliction of the Jewish people has been central to Jewish self-understanding. In the modern world, however, this paradigm of adversity is challenged by the success of the Jewish state of Israel and by the auspicious circumstances of Jews in the United States. Will this very success prove fatal to the survival of Judaism? Can the trends of assimilation and secularization be resisted? Why do certain Jewish groups, especially the Orthodox, continue to thrive in the face of these challenges? These are the questions that Bernard Susser and Charles Liebman ponder in this thoughtfuly and provocative work. They identify aspects of Orthodoxy - such as its reverence for study and its ability to set and maintain boundaries-that can be emulated by non-Orthodox jews, and suggest that these aspects may hold out the best hope for meaninful Jewish survival.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1983.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1983.
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