The Cambridge Companion to American Judaism

This Companion will both introduce newer readers to American Judaism and remind those familiar with the issues just how complex and topical they are. It discusses what it is to be “a Jew” in America today. This is far wider than the traditional religious, denominational, and ethnic boundaries which purport to define Judaism, as the book makes clear by drawing, first, on many of the key arguments about identity and spirituality in current historiography, and, second, on the wealth of cultural and anthropological practices to which many Jews aspire and subscribe. In doing this, it picks up on many of...