Who Rules the Synagogue? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Who Rules the Synagogue? write by Zev Eleff. This book was released on 2016-06-01. Who Rules the Synagogue? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Finalist for the American Jewish Studies cateogry of the 2016 National Jewish Book Awards Early in the 1800s, American Jews consciously excluded rabbinic forces from playing a role in their community's development. By the final decades of the century, ordained rabbis were in full control of America's leading synagogues and large sectors of American Jewish life. How did this shift occur? Who Rules the Synagogue? explores how American Jewry in the nineteenth century was transformed from a lay dominated community to one whose leading religious authorities were rabbis. Zev Eleff traces the history of this revolution, culminating in the Pittsburgh rabbinical conference of 1885 and the commotion caused by it. Previous scholarship has chartered the religious history of American Judaism during this era, but Eleff reinterprets this history through the lens of religious authority. In so doing, he offers a fresh view of the story of American Judaism with the aid of never-before-mined sources and a comprehensive review of periodicals and newspapers. 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.
Who Rules the Synagogue?
Who Rules the Synagogue? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Who Rules the Synagogue? write by Zev Eleff. This book was released on 2016. Who Rules the Synagogue? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. Zev 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.
Landmark of the Spirit
Landmark of the Spirit - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Landmark of the Spirit write by Annie Polland. This book was released on 2009-01-01. Landmark of the Spirit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. New York City’s magnificent Eldridge Street Synagogue was built in 1887 in response to the great wave of Jewish immigrants who fled persecution in eastern Europe. Finding their way to the Lower East Side, the new arrivals formed a vibrant Jewish community that flourished from the 1850s until the 1940s. Their synagogue served not only as a place of worship but also as a singularly important center in the development of American Judaism. A near ruin in the 1980s that was recently reopened after a massive twenty-year restoration, the Eldridge Street Synagogue has been named a National Historic Landmark. But as Bill Moyers tells us in his foreword, the synagogue is also “a landmark of the spirit, . . . the spirit of a new nation committed to the old idea of liberty.” Annie Polland uses elements of the building’s architecture—the façade, the benches, the grooves worn into the sanctuary floor—as points of departure to discuss themes, people, and trends at various moments in the synagogue’s history, particularly during its heyday from 1887 until the 1930s. Exploring the synagogue’s rich archives, the author shines new light on the religious life of immigrant Jews, introduces various rabbis, cantors and congregants, and analyzes the significance of this special building in the context of the larger American-Jewish experience. For more information, go to: www.EldridgeStreet.org
The Synagogue in America
The Synagogue in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Synagogue in America write by Marc Lee Raphael. This book was released on 2011-04-18. The Synagogue in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Chronicles the history of the Jewish synagogue in America over the course of three centuries, discussing its changing role in the American Jewish community.
Rules for Regulating the Congregation of the Bristol Synagogue
Rules for Regulating the Congregation of the Bristol Synagogue - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rules for Regulating the Congregation of the Bristol Synagogue write by Bristol. Synagogue. This book was released on 1842. Rules for Regulating the Congregation of the Bristol Synagogue available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
