04093nam 2200649Ia 450 991096700970332120200520144314.09780791492741079149274510.1515/9780791492741(CKB)2670000000233706(OCoLC)47011549(CaPaEBR)ebrary10587287(SSID)ssj0000185599(PQKBManifestationID)11939105(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000185599(PQKBWorkID)10209739(PQKB)10029020(MiAaPQ)EBC3408088(DE-B1597)681499(DE-B1597)9780791492741(Perlego)2672495(EXLCZ)99267000000023370620000114d2000 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrJewish life and American culture /Sylvia Barack FishmanAlbany State University of New York20001 online resource (263 p.)SUNY series in American Jewish society in the 1990sBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780791445457 0791445453 Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-233) and indexes.Front Matter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Analyzing the Evidence -- Coalescing American and Jewish Values -- Tracing Educational and Occupational Patterns -- Learning about Jewish Education -- Educating for Jewish Living -- Forming Jewish Households and Families -- Observing Religious Environments in Jewish Homes -- Profiling Jewish Organizational Connections -- Negotiating both Sides of the Hyphen -- The Methodology of the National Jewish Population Survey -- Notes -- Subject Index -- Index of NamesJews in the United States are uniquely American in their connections to Jewish religion and ethnicity. Sylvia Barack Fishman in her groundbreaking book, Jewish Life and American Culture, shows that contemporary Jews have created a hybrid new form of Judaism, merging American values and behaviors with those from historical Jewish traditions.Fishman introduces a new concept called coalescence, an adaptation technique through which Jews merge American and Jewish elements. Analyzing the increasingly permeable boundaries in the ethnic identity construction of Jewish and non-Jewish Americans, she suggests that during the process of coalescence, Jews combine the texts of American and Jewish cultures, losing track of their dissonance and perceiving them as a unified Jewish whole.The author generates data from diverse sources in the social sciences and humanities, including the 1990 National Jewish Population Survey and other statistical studies, interviews and focus groups, popular and material culture, literature and film, to demonstrate the pervasiveness of coalescence. The book pays special attention to gender issues and the relationship of women to their Jewish and American identities.A blend of lively narrative and scholarly detail, this book includes useful tables, accessible figures and models, and fascinating illustrations which present the educational, occupational, and behavioral patterns of American Jews, organizational profiles, family formation, religious observance, and the impact of Jewish education.Jewish way of lifeJewsCultural assimilationUnited StatesJudaismUnited StatesHistory20th centuryJewsUnited StatesIdentityUnited StatesEthnic relationsJewish way of life.JewsCultural assimilationJudaismHistoryJewsIdentity.305.8924073Fishman Sylvia Barack1942-1805198MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910967009703321Jewish life and American culture4353654UNINA