The Synagogue in America : : A Short History / / Marc Lee Raphael.
In 1789, when George Washington was elected the first president of the United States, laymen from all six Jewish congregations in the new nation sent him congratulatory letters. He replied to all six. Thus, after more than a century of Jewish life in colonial America the small communities of Jews pr...
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Building the Synagogue Community in Colonial America: The Earliest Years
- 2 Reforming Judaism Everywhere: Ushering in Change in the Nineteenth Century
- 3 An Explosion of Immigrant Synagogues: Jewish Mass Migration to America
- 4 Conservative and Orthodox Judaism Define Themselves: Between the Wars
- 5 Expanding Suburbs and Synagogues: The Post – World War II Years
- 6 Reinventing, Experimenting, and Racheting Up: Judaism after 1967
- Appendix: Counting Synagogues
- Sources
- Index
- About the Author