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Choosing survival : strategies for a Jewish future

Author: Bernard Susser; Charles S Liebman
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
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Throughout history, the persecutions of the Jewish people have been central to their identity and to the cohesion of their religion and cultural heritage.

But now, with the success of the Jewish State of Israel and the prosperity of Jews in the United States, the collective sufferings that have forged the Jewish identity are disappearing.

The compelling question Bernard Susser and Charles Liebman ask in Choosing Survival is: Will this success paradoxically prove fatal to Judaism?  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Bernard Susser; Charles S Liebman
ISBN: 0195127455 9780195127454
OCLC Number: 39505491
Description: x, 207 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: 1. Prologue / Bernard Susser --
2. Prologue / Charles Liebman --
3. The Ideology of Affliction: Can Jews Survive the End of the Siegel --
4. American Jews: Preserving the Old --
5. American Jews: New Images. 6. Israeli Jews: Preserving the Old --
7. Israeli Jews: New Images --
8. A Blueprint for Jewish Survival: The United States --
9. A Blueprint for Jewish Survival: Israel --
10. Conclusions.
Responsibility: Bernard Susser, Charles S. Liebman.
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Susser and Liebman paint a disturbing portrait of the decline of Judaism in in both Israel and in the United States and the various--and mainly ineffective--efforts to reverse that decline.  Read more...

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