בידספיריט | New York's Jewish Jews: The

New York's Jewish Jews: The Orthodox Community in the Interwar Years by Jenna Weissman Joselit .Indiana University Press, 1990. - softcover  189 pp good condition In this first interpretive historical account of the American Ortho- dox Jewish experience, Jenna Weissman Joselit examines the ways in which pious Jews reconciled the requirements of religious tradition with the freedoms of interwar America. As they adapted to their American home, ritually observant Jewish immigrants and their chil- dren created a new religious culture, and in so doing, made a case for the inherent viability of traditional Judaism in the new world. Through her focus on representative American Jewish institutions such as the synagogue and the rabbinate, and on the sacred ritual life of Orthodox women, Joselit reveals the evolution of a self- consciously modern, American, and decidedly middle class Ortho- doxy between the years of 1880 and 1945.