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245	0	0	_aUnderstanding American Judaism : _btoward the description of a modern religion / _cedited by Jacob Neusner.
246	3	4	_aThe Rabbi and the synagogue (v.1)
250	3	4	_aSectors of American Judaism: Reform, Orthodoxy, Conservatism, and Reconstructionism (v.2)
260			_aEugene, Oregon : _bWipf and Stock Publishers, _c2003, [c1975].
300			_a2 v. ; _c21 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
505	0		_aVolume 1. The Rabbi and the synagogue. PART 1. American Jews and Judaism: 1. The American Jew and his religion / Arthur Hertzberg -- 2. The religion of American Jews / Charles S. Liebman. PART 2. The American Synagogue: 3. The synagogue in America / Wolfe Kelman -- 4. The sociology of the American synagogue / Marshall Sklare -- 5. The changing functions of the synagogue and the rabbi / Abraham J. Feldman. PART 3. The American Rabbi: (1) In the community: 6. The rabbinate and the Jewish community structure / Simon Greenberg; with comment by Irving Greenberg -- 7. Dimensions of authority in the contemporary Jewish community / Charles S. Liebman -- 8. Power in a midwestern Jewish community / Kenneth D. Roseman -- 9. The American rabbi: a religious specialist responds to loss of authority / Jerome E. Carlin and Saul H. Mendlovitz. PART 4. The American Rabbi: (2) Formation and education: 10. The training of American rabbis / Charles S. Liebman -- 11. Trends in the American yeshiva today / Oscar Z. Fasman -- 12. A contemporary rabbinical school for Orthodox Jewry / Eliezer Berkovits -- 13. A love letter to my congregation / Manuel Laderman.
505	8		_aVolume 2. Sectors of American Judaism: Reform, Orthodoxy, Conservatism, and Reconstructionism. PART 5. (1) Reform: 14. The Reform movement / Jacob B. Agus -- 15. The Reform rabbi / Theodore I. Lenn -- 16. The limits of liberal Judaism / Jakob J. Petuchowski -- 17. The Reform synagogue: plight and possibility / Richard N. Levy -- 18. Reform is a verb / Leonard J. Fein. PART 6. (2) Orthodoxy: 19. The Orthodox stream / Jacob B. Agus -- 20. A sociological analysis of contemporary Orthodoxy / Charles S. Liebman -- 21. Orthodox sectarians / Charles S. Liebman -- 22. A challenge to Orthodoxy / Emanuel Rackman. PART 7. (3) Conservatism, and Reconstructionism: 23. The Conservative movement: Reconstructionism / Jacob B. Agus -- 24. Reconstructionism in American Jewish life / Charles S. Liebman -- 25. The ideology of the Conservative movement / Mordecai Waxman -- 26. Conservative Judaism in a divided community / Jacob Neusner -- 27. Recent developments in Conservative Judaism / Marshall Sklare. PART 8. Toward the future: 28. Judaism in freedom / Jacob Neusner -- 29. The Jewish religious experience in America: the problem of interpretation.
650		0	_aJudaism _zUnited States.
650		0	_aRabbis _xOffice.
650		0	_aRabbis _zUnited States.
650		0	_aReform Judaism _zUnited States.
650		0	_aOrthodox Judaism _zUnited States.
650		0	_aConservative Judaism.
650		0	_aReconstructionist Judaism.
700	1		_aNeusner, Jacob, _d1932-
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