Edited by Jack Wertheimer (6 results)

Softbound. Condition: Very Good. Octavo, glossy paper covers, xiv, 292 pp., index Articles are "Family Formation, Educational Choice, and American Jewish Identity," Riv-Ellen Prell, "The Differential Impact of Jewish Education on Adult Jewish Identity," Steven M. Cohen, "Who Is Being Taught? Early Childhood Education's Adult-Centered Approach," Shaul Kelner, "Why Jewish Parents Send Their Children to Day Schools," Steven M. Cohen and Shaul Kelner, "Schools for Parents: What Parents Want and What They Get from Their Children's Jewish Day School," Alex Pomson, "Expectations, Perceptions, and Preconceptions: How Jewish Parents Talk about 'Supplementary' Religious Education," Jeffrey S. Kress, "Generating Jewish Connections: Conversations with JewishTeenagers, Their Parents, and Jewish Educators and Thinkers," Sylvia Barack Fishman, "Cultures of Jewish Education: How Communities Address Local Educational Needs," Jack Wertheimer, "Toward the Study of Community Effects on Jewish Engagement: The Case of Educational Enrollment," Shaul Kelner and Steven M. Cohen.…

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Octavo in dust jacket, xxii, 509 pp., b/w photos, index Articles are "German Jewish Orthodoxy: Tradition in the Context of Culture," David Ellenson, "The Emergence of Ultra-Orthodoxy: The Invention of a Tradition," Michael K. Silber. "Preserving Tradition in the Land of Revolution: The Religious Leadership of Soviet Jewry, 1917-1930," David E. Fishman, "Religious Responses among North African Jews in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries," Harvey E. Goldberg, "The Hazon Ish: Haredi Critic of Traditional Orthodoxy," Lawrence Kaplan., "The Lost Kiddush Cup: Changes in Ashkenazic Haredi CultureA Tradition in Crisis," Menachem Friedman, "Traditionalism and Village Jews in Nineteenth-Century Western and Central Europe: Local Persistence and Urban Nostalgia," Paula E. Hyman, "Self-image through Objects: Toward a Social History of Jewish Art Collecting and Jewish Museums," Richard I. Cohen, "S. Ansky and the Paradigm of Return," David G. Roskies, "Modern Students of Midrash Halakhah: Between Tradition and Wissenschaft," Jay M. Harris, "The Retrieval of Innocence and Tradition: Jewish Spiritual Renewal in an Age of Liberal Individualism," Paul Mendes-Flohr, " 'Merry Chanuka': The Changing Holiday Practices of American Jews, 1880-1950,"Jenna Weissman Joselit, "Reinventing Miriam's Well: Feminist Jewish Ceremonials," Shulamit S. Magnus, "Ritual and Role Transition: Adult Bat Mitzvah as a Successful Rite of Passage," Stuart Schoenfeld, "Midrash and Modernity: Can Midrash Serve a Contemporary Religious Discourse?," Barry W. Holtz, "The Havurah as a Context for Adult Jewish Education," Joseph Reimer, "Tradition, Judaism, and the Jewish Religion in Contemporary Israeli Society," Charles S. Liebman, "Constructing the Usable Past: The Idea of 'Tradition' in Twentieth-Century American Judaism," Arnold M. Eisen, "Tradition and Modernity Reconsidered," Michael A. Meyer, "The Reappropriation of Jewish Tradition in the Modern Era," Charles S. Liebman, "Postmodern or Neo-Medieval Times?" Ivan G. Marcus.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. TWO VOLUMES: VOLUME ONE: THE MAKING OF AN INSTITUTION OF JEWISH HIGHER LEARNING, VOLUME TWO: BEYOND THE ACADEMY. OVERSEAS ORDERS WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL POSTAGE.

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. 2 Volume set. (Religion, Judaism, theology, Jewish Theological Seminary Of America) NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Volume One, The Making of an Institution of Jewish Higher Learning, 854 pages. Volume Two, Beyond the Academy, 872 pages. Both books have no writing or marking. Each dust jacket protected in paper backed polyester film.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Missing. 392 + xviii pp. A rare, hard-to-find, collectible gem! A wonderful copy! A great, almost spotlessly clean copy! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers. Minimally or mildly shelf worn. Dust jacket missing.…