Leon A. Jick - The Americanization of the Synagogue, 1820-1870
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THE BRANDEIS SERIES IN AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY, CULTURE, AND LIFE Jonathan D. Sarna, Editor
The Americanization of the Synagogue, 18201870 LEON A. JICK, 1992
Follow My Footprints: Changing Images of Women in American Jewish Fiction SYLVIA BARACK FISHMAN, 1992
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The Americanization of the Synagogue, 18201870
Leon A. Jick
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY PRESS Published by University Press of New England Hanover and London
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BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY PRESS Published by University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 03755 1976 by Trustees of Brandeis University Foreword 1992 by Trustees of Brandeis University First paperback edition 1992 All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1 CIP data appear at the end of the book
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Contents
Foreword by Jonathan Sarna
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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1. The Earliest American Jewry, 16541820
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2. Blazing a Trail, 18201830
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3. The Rising Tide, 18301840
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4. The Pattern of Congregational Life, 18251840
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5. The First Leaders, 18301845
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6. Religious Reform, 18401855
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7. Emerging Options, 18401850
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8. Prosperity and Provincialism, 18451854
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9. Progress and Prospects, 18501860
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10. Transformations in Process, 18501860
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11. The Synthesis
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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Foreword
When first published in 1976, Leon Jick's The Americanization of the Synagogue diverged markedly from the standard themes of American Jewish historiography. While most scholars of American Jewry, at that time, focused on the East European period in American Jewish life, emphasized the study of immigrants or their children, and wrote social history, Jick focused on the German (Central European) period in American Jewish life, emphasized the study of American Judaism, and wrote religious history. Other scholars tended to interpret religious reforms as cultural importations, if not evidence of assimilation, and pointed to statements of religious ideology to clinch their point. Jick, examining these same reforms from the perspective of immigrant worshippers, found them to be pragmatic responses to new socioeconomic conditions, evidence of Americanization rather than of ideological influences from abroad. Whereas many of his colleagues in the field gave short shrift to synagogues, preferring, if they investigated religious life at all, to talk about religious leaders, Jick made the synagogue his prime subject of inquiry. He understood that it, more than any other Jewish institution, reflected the changing currents of American Jewish religious life as a whole.
In the years since The Americanization of the Synagogue first appeared, scholarly fashions have shifted. New volumes on the "German" period of American Jewish history
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have been published, the history of American Judaism has come into its own, and the American synagogue itself has become a recognized subject for historical research. As a result, some of Jick's questions no longer seem as novel as they did when he first asked them, and in a few cases his answers have gone on to be disputed. What cannot be disputed, however, is the overall significance of this book. It offers not only a synthetic overview of religious developments from 1820 to 1870, but also a first step in what one hopes will someday be a full-scale reinterpretation of how Judaism developed on America's shores.
The Americanization of the Synagogue was the first book in American Jewish history to appear under the imprint of the University Press of New England. It is, therefore, a special pleasure to welcome it back into print in this new, more accessible format, and as part of an exciting new series of volumes to be published by UPNE, entitled "The Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life."
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