Author: Temple Beth El (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.)Publisher:
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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Constitution and By-laws of Congregation Beth El of Detroit, Mich
Author: Temple Beth El (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Constitution and By-laws of Congregation Beth El of the City of Detroit
Author: Temple Beth El (Detroit, Mich.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Year Book of Congregation Beth El, Detroit, Mich
Author: Temple Beth El (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.)Publisher:
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Category : Detroit (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
A History of Congregation Beth El Detroit, Mich., from Its Organization to Its Semi-centennial, 1850-1900
Author: Congregation Bet El (Detroit)Publisher:
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Category : Synagogues
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Constitution and By-laws
Author: Congregation Bet El (Detroit)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A History of Congregation Beth El, Detroit, Michigan
Author: Temple Beth El (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.)Publisher:
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Category : Detroit (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
An Outline History of Congregation Beth El, Detroit, Michigan
Author: Leo Morris FranklinPublisher:
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Category : Detroit (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Who Rules the Synagogue?
Author: Zev EleffPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190624671
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
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.
The Jews of Detroit
Author: Robert A. RockawayPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Robert Rockaway's study begins with the arrival of the first Jews in Detroit, when the city was a remote frontier outpost. He chronicles the immigration of the German Jews beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, followed by the influx of Jews from Eastern Europe. His narrative concludes on the eve of World War I, by which time the community had developed its basic social structure. It had survived the turbulent years of immigration and the process of Americanization, and had succeeded in establishing several congregations, charitable organizations, and social and cultural foundations. Rockaway relates the story of Detroit's Jews to the larger context of American ethnicity and immigration. He compares the Jewish economic and social evolution with that of other Detroit ethnic groups and of other American Jewish communities. Thus, the arrival of the German Jews is presented as part of the broader wave of immigration from Germany, where Jews were suffering increasingly restrictive social and economic sanctions. Upon their arrival in Detroit, the German Jews quickly established themselves and moved into the mainstream of the city's life. Transitions for the Eastern European Jews were not as easy. They were divided among themselves due to ethnic differences, disagreements about rituals, as well as personal idiosyncracies. In addition, class, cultural, and religious differences separated the German Jews from the Eastern Europeans. Many, victims of pogroms, arrived destitute and, consequently, put great strains on the established Jewish community as it tried to support the new immigrants. The large number of new Jewish immigrants also stirred anti-Semitic feelings in the city, making assimilation more difficult. During the period under study, Detroit's Jews suffered almost total exclusion in the social sphere, despite significant gains in the economic and civic arenas. Detroit's social elite remained almost totally Anglo-Saxon and Protestant. Nevertheless, through work and unflagging determination, they rose to solid economic status. At the same time, they maintained their identity while participating in Detroit's civic, political, and cultural life.
The Beth El Story
Author: Irving I. KatzPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description