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  • Organizational and Philanthropic Behavior
  • Jewish Communal Structures Around the World
  • Reaching Out to the American Jewish Community
  • Jewish Continuity
  • Future of American Jewry
  • Geo-Demographics of American Jewry
  • Hebrew Education in the Mississippi Valley
  • Apostasy Among American Jews
  • Christian Attitudes Towards Jews
  • North American Jewish Community
  • European Jewish Communities
  • Ottoman Jerusalem
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  • Moscow Field Notes (1991)
  • Jewish Community in Costa Rica
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    Jewish Community Studies

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    "Assimilation and Authenticity: The Problem of the American Jewish Community" in Community and Polity: The Organizational Dynamics of American Jewry
    The fact that Jews are born Jewish places them in a special position to begin with, one that more often than not has forced them together for self-protection. The preservation of Jewish life can be understood to be a matter of familial solidarity, but it must also be seen as the product of the active will of many Jews to function as a community.
    Maintaining Consensus: The Canadian Jewish Polity in the Postwar World
    Canadian Jewry has become intertwined with American Jewish institutions as part of a North American "community." Yet at the same time it has preserved certain British and Eastern European models, reinforced by the special character of Canada as a bilingual, multicultural society.
    -- Winner of the National Jewish Book Award
    The Constitutional Documents of Contemporary Jewry: An Introduction to the Field
    Jewish civilization, its religion and its polity, are grounded in constitutional documents and infused with the principles of constitutionalism. The Five Books of Moses are properly understood as the constitution of the Jewish people, however interpreted.


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