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Title:

Comparing Jewish societies / Todd M. Endelman, editor.

Publisher:

University of Michigan Press,

Copyright Date:

c1997

Description:

xii, 369 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Jews--History--1789-1945.
Judaism--History.
Jews--Social conditions.
Cross-cultural studies
Israel.

Other Authors:

Endelman, Todd M.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : comparing Jewish societies / Todd M. Endelman -- Religious syncretism and religious distinctiveness : a comparative analysis of pre-modern Jewish communities / Stephen Sharot -- Jewish millennial-messianic movements : a comparison of medieval communities / Stephen Sharot -- Enlightenment and emancipation : German Jewry's formative age in comparative perspective / David Sorkin -- The modern Jewish diaspora : East European Jews in New York, London, and Paris / Nancy L. Green -- The importance of place : comparative aspects of the ritual murder trial in modern Central Europe / Hillel J. Kieval -- Andean two-step : the encounter between Bolivians and Central European Jewish refugees / Leo Spitzer -- Colonization and decolonization : the case of Zionist and African elites / Dan V. Segre -- Railway workers and relational history : Arabs and Jews in British-ruled Palestine / Zachary Lockman -- The viability of ethnic democracy as a mode of conflict management : comparing Israel and Northern Ireland / Sammy Smooha -- Religion and communal life in an evolutionary-functional perspective : the orthodox kibbutzim / Aryei Fishman -- The situational analysis of religious change revisited / Shlomo Deshen.

Series:

The Comparative studies in society and history book series

ISBN:

9780472065929 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
0472065920 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
9780472095926 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
0472095927 (hbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN:

97004811

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)