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A Coat of many colors : Jewish subcommunities in the United States
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A Coat of many colors : Jewish subcommunities in the United States

Author: Abraham D Lavender
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1977.
Series: Contributions in family studies, no. 1
Edition/Format: Book : English
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Abraham D Lavender
ISBN: 083719539X : 9780837195391
OCLC Number: 3186030
Description: xiii, 324 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: 1. Small-town Jews -- As they see themselves / Susan Rebecca Brown -- Small-town Jews and their neighbors in the United States / Peter I. Rose -- Small-town Jews' integration into their communities / Eugen Schoenfeld -- Problems and potentials / Eugen Schoenfeld -- 2. Southern Jews -- Shalom-with a southern accent : an examination of Jews in the South / Abraham D. Lavender -- Southern Jews : the two communities / Theodore Lowi -- A Jewish view on segregation / Anonymous -- Is Miami Beach Jewish? / Harold Mehling -- The future of Jews in the South / Jerome A. Wolfe -- 3. Poor Jews -- The invisible Jewish poor / Ann G. Wolfe -- Comment : the invisible Jewish poor, I / Saul Kaplan -- Comment : the invisible Jewish poor, II / James P. Rice -- Reply : the invisible Jewish poor / Ann G. Wolfe -- Jewish poverty hurts in South Beach / Elinor Horwitz -- Left behind, left alone / Mark Effron -- 4. Hasidic Jews -- Chassidic community behavior / Israel Rubin -- Hasidim of Brooklyn / Stephen Isaacs -- New Square : bridge over the river time / Harry Steinberg -- The Rebbe : in his Torah there is room for all Jews / Irving Spiegel -- 5. Black Jews -- Exploration and responses : Black Judaism in New York / Albert Ehrman -- A black Rabbi looks to Israel / Frank Ross -- Blacks and conversion to Judaism / Harold Goldfarb -- Black and Jewish - and unaccepted / Robert T. Coleman -- 6. Jewish women -- Women's lib and Jewish tradition / Eugene J. Lipman -- Can a woman be a Jew? / Ruth F. Brin -- Jewish college females : future leaders of the Jewish community? / Abraham D. Lavender -- Feminism : is it good for the Jews? / Blu Greenberg -- 7. Sephardic Jews -- Sephardic culture in America / Marc D. Angel -- Contemporary studies of Sephardic Jews in the United States / Victor D. Sanua -- Washington's Moroccan Jews - a community of artisans / John J. Schulter -- Cuban Jewish community in South Florida / Seymour B. Liebman -- The Sephardic revival in the United States : a case of ethnic revival in a minority-within-a-minority / Abraham D. Lavender.
Series Title: Contributions in family studies, no. 1
Responsibility: edited and compiled by Abraham D. Lavender.

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