Who Rules the Synagogue?
Religious Authority and the Formation of American Judaism
- Publisher's listprice GBP 97.00
-
43 795 Ft (41 710 Ft + 5% VAT)
The price is estimated because at the time of ordering we do not know what conversion rates will apply to HUF / product currency when the book arrives. In case HUF is weaker, the price increases slightly, in case HUF is stronger, the price goes lower slightly.
- Discount 10% (cc. 4 380 Ft off)
- Discounted price 39 416 Ft (37 539 Ft + 5% VAT)
Subcribe now and take benefit of a favourable price.
Subscribe
43 795 Ft
Availability
printed on demand
Why don't you give exact delivery time?
Delivery time is estimated on our previous experiences. We give estimations only, because we order from outside Hungary, and the delivery time mainly depends on how quickly the publisher supplies the book. Faster or slower deliveries both happen, but we do our best to supply as quickly as possible.
Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 4 August 2016
- ISBN 9780190490270
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages344 pages
- Size 160x236x27 mm
- Weight 635 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 14 illus. 0
Categories
Short description:
Who Rules the Synagogue? explores how American Jewry in the nineteenth century transformed from a lay dominated community to one whose leading religious authorities were rabbis.
MoreLong description:
Who Rules the Synagogue? explores how American Jewry in the nineteenth century transformed from a lay dominated community to one whose leading religious authorities were rabbis. Previously, scholars have chartered the religious history of American Judaism during this era, but Zev Eleff reinterprets this history through the lens of religious authority. Early in the century, American Jews consciously excluded rabbinic forces from playing a role in their community's development. By the final decades of the 1800s, ordained rabbis were in full control of America's leading synagogues and large sectors of American Jewish life, most notably in the commotion caused by the Pittsburgh rabbinic conference of 1885. Eleff weaves together the significant episodes and debates that shaped American Judaism during this formative period, and places this story into the larger context of American religious history and modern Jewish history.
Meticulously researched... Who Rules the Synagogue? contributes much toward understanding how religious authority has been constructed and negotiated over the span of American religious history.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: The Laity (1816-1845)
Chapter 1. "A Great Aversion to Priestly Domination"
Part 2: Intruders (1845-1860)
Chapter 2. Clericalism
Chapter 3. Textualism
Part 3: Interlude (1860-1869)
Chapter 4. Changing Currents
Part 4: The Rabbinate (1870-1885)
Chapter 5. Clericalism
Chapter 6. Textualism
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliographic Essay
Bibliography
Index
