Jews in America: A Contemporary Reader Book

	Introduction	1
I	Establishing a Foundation for Contemporary American Jewish Life	5
1	The Sociohistorical Background and Development of America's Jews	7
2	Economic Adjustment of Immigrants: Jewish Adaptation to the United States	16
II	Assimilation of the American Jewish Population	29
3	American Jewry: A Population Projection, 1990-2020	33
4	The Changing American Jewish Family Faces the 1990s	51
III	Cohesion and Conflict: Jews in American Society	89
5	The Organization of the American Jewish Community	95
6	Antisemitism and Jewish Security in Contemporary America: Why Can't Jews Take Yes for an Answer?	124
7	Jewish Organizational Response to Intermarriage: A Policy Perspective	151
8	Negotiating Egalitarianism and Judaism: American Jewish Feminisms and Their Implications for Jewish Life	163
IV	Constructing a Modern Jewish Identity	191
9	Jewish Liberalism Revisited	197
10	Understanding American Judaism: Revisiting the Concept of "Social Justice"	201
11	Center and Periphery: Israel in American Jewish Life	212
12	Jewish Identity in Conversionary and Mixed Marriages	226
13	The Impact of Varieties of Jewish Education upon Jewish Identity: An Intergenerational Perspective	261
14	Creative Decision Making and the Construction of a Modern Jewish Identity	286
V	Religion and Spirituality: Denominational Responses to Postmaterialist Values	301
15	Ritual, Ceremony and the Reconstruction of Judaism in the United States	307
16	Rupture and Reconstruction: The Transformation of Contemporary Orthodoxy	320
17	Religious Movements in Collision: A Jewish Culture War?	377
VI	Conclusion	393
18	Postmodernity and the Jews: Identity, Identification, and Community	395
	Contributors	409
	Index	411