The Cambridge Companion to American Judaism Book

Introduction Dana Evan Kaplan;
1. From preservation to innovation: Judaism in America, 1654-1880 Eli Faber;
2. The reshaping of American Judaism, 1880-1945 Lloyd P. Gartner;
3. Trends in American Judaism from 1945 to the present Dana Evan Kaplan;
4. Denominationalism in American Judaism Lawrence Grossman;
5. Patterns of American Jewish religious behavior Chaim Waxman;
6. Thinking Judaism through: Jewish theology in America Byron L. Sherwin;
7. The essence of American Judaism Charles Liebman;
8. Contemporary Jewish education Isa Aron, Michael Zeldin and Sara Lee;
9. The place of Judaism in American Jewish identity Debra Renee Kaufman;
10. The Holocaust in Jewish American life Lynn Rapaport;
11. Long distance nationalism: Zionism, Israel and American Jews Steve Rosenthal;
12. Life cycle rituals: rites of passage in American Judaism Rela Mintz Geffen;
13. Choosing lives: evolving gender roles in American Jewish families Sylvia Barack Fishman;
14. The body and sexuality in American Jewish culture David Biale;
15. The American Jewish urban experience Nathan Glazer;
16. 'Sacred survival' revisited: American Jewish civil religion in the new millennium Jonathan Woocher;
17. Judaism and democracy in America Alan Mittleman;
18. The economics of American Judaism Carmel U. Chiswick;
19. American Judaism and interfaith dialogue Yaakov Ariel;
20. American midrash: urban Jewish writing and the reclaiming of Judaism Murray Baumgarten;
21. Recent trends in new American Jewish music Mark Kligman;
22. The visual arts in the American Jewish experience Matthew Baigell;
23. Present and future tense: American Judaism in the 21st century Bruce Phillips; Afterword Jonathan D. Sarna.