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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817832603321

Autore

Ritchie Daniel E

Titolo

The new Jewish leaders : reshaping the American Jewish landscape / / edited by Jack Wertheimer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waltham, Mass., : Brandeis University Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-32087-8

9786613320872

1-61168-184-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (369 p.)

Collana

Brandeis series in American Jewish history, culture, and life

Altri autori (Persone)

WertheimerJack

Disciplina

305.892/4073

Soggetti

Jewish leadership - United States

Jews - United States - Social conditions

Young adults - United States - Attitudes

Judaism - United States - History - 21st century

United States Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Mapping the scene: how younger Jewish adults engage with Jewish community / Jack Wertheimer -- From Jewish people to Jewish purpose: establishment leaders and their non-establishment successors / Steven M. Cohen -- Expressive, progressive, and protective: three impulses for innovative organizing among young Jews today / Steven M. Cohen -- Young Jewish leaders in Los Angeles: strengthening the Jewish people in conventional and unconventional ways / Sarah Bunin Benor -- Reimagining Jewishness: younger American Jewish leaders, entrepreneurs, and artists in cultural context / Sylvia Barack Fishman, with Rachel S. Bernstein and Emily Sigalow -- The reality of the virtual: looking for Jewish leadership online / Ari Y. Kelman -- In its own image: independent philanthropy and the cultivation of young Jewish leadership / Shaul Kelner.

Sommario/riassunto

A riveting study of a generational transition with major implications for American Jewish life