LEADER 04093nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910967009703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9780791492741 010 $a0791492745 024 7 $a10.1515/9780791492741 035 $a(CKB)2670000000233706 035 $a(OCoLC)47011549 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10587287 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000185599 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11939105 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000185599 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10209739 035 $a(PQKB)10029020 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3408088 035 $a(DE-B1597)681499 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780791492741 035 $a(Perlego)2672495 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000233706 100 $a20000114d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aJewish life and American culture /$fSylvia Barack Fishman 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York$d2000 215 $a1 online resource (263 p.) 225 0$aSUNY series in American Jewish society in the 1990s 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780791445457 311 08$a0791445453 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 211-233) and indexes. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tTables and Figures -- $tForeword -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tAnalyzing the Evidence -- $tCoalescing American and Jewish Values -- $tTracing Educational and Occupational Patterns -- $tLearning about Jewish Education -- $tEducating for Jewish Living -- $tForming Jewish Households and Families -- $tObserving Religious Environments in Jewish Homes -- $tProfiling Jewish Organizational Connections -- $tNegotiating both Sides of the Hyphen -- $tThe Methodology of the National Jewish Population Survey -- $tNotes -- $tSubject Index -- $tIndex of Names 330 $aJews 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. 606 $aJewish way of life 606 $aJews$xCultural assimilation$zUnited States 606 $aJudaism$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aJews$zUnited States$xIdentity 607 $aUnited States$xEthnic relations 615 0$aJewish way of life. 615 0$aJews$xCultural assimilation 615 0$aJudaism$xHistory 615 0$aJews$xIdentity. 676 $a305.8924073 700 $aFishman$b Sylvia Barack$f1942-$01805198 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910967009703321 996 $aJewish life and American culture$94353654 997 $aUNINA