Translating a Tradition : : Studies in American Jewish History / / Ira Robinson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Backlist eBook-Package 2008-2013
• VerfasserIn: Robinson, Ira,
• MitwirkendeR: Jacobson, Maxine,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Judaism and Jewish Life
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (332 p.)

Divided into three sections, this work explains how the concepts and practices of traditional European Judaism were adapted to North American culture beginning in the late nineteenth century. Part I focuses on the ideas and activities of Cyrus Adler (1863-1940), one of the most prominent leaders of the traditionalist United States Jewish community in his era. The issues in these essays include the origins of American Jewish history as a field of study, the Kehilla experiments of the early twentieth century, and the relationship between the Jewish Theological Seminary and Orthodox Judaism. Part II deals with the beginnings of Hasidic Judaism in North America prior to the Second World War. It also includes several studies investigating the shaping of the worldview of Orthodox Judaism in contemporary North America. Part III examines the issue of contemporary American Jewish attitudes toward evolution and intelligent design.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Section I. Cyrus Adler: Toward the Biography of an American Jew -- The Invention of American Jewish History -- Cyrus Adler and The American: a Moment in the Intellectual History of American Jewry -- Cyrus Adler the Philadelphian -- Two North American Kehillot and Their Structure: Philadelphia and Montreal -- Cyrus Adler, Bernard Revel and the Prehistory of organized Jewish Scholarship in the United States -- Cyrus Adler and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America: Image and reality -- Cyrus Adler: President of the Jewish Theological Seminary, 1915-1940 -- The Correspondence of Cyrus Adler and Racie Friedenwald Adler: New Perspectives on the Development of American Jewry in the Early Twentieth Century -- A Supplemental bibliography of Cyrus Adler -- Section II. Orthodox Judaism in North America -- The First Hasidic rabbis in North America -- Anshe Sfard: the Creation of the First Hasidic Congregations in North America -- Hasid and Maskil: The Hasidic Tales of an American Yiddish Journalist -- Because of our Many Sins: The Contemporary Jewish World as reflected in the responsa of rabbi Moses Feinstein -- That Marvelous Midos Machine: Audio Tapes as an orthodox Educational Medium -- “Practically I Am a Fundamentalist” : Twentieth Century orthodox Jews Contend With Evolution and Its Implications -- Section III. Contemporary American Judaism -- American Jewish Views of Evolution and Intelligent Design -- Index