{"product_id":"jewish-continuity-in-america-abraham-j-karp-9780817358228","title":"Jewish Continuity in America: Creative Survival in a Free Society","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJewish Continuity in America presents an overview of a life's work by a preeminent scholar and brings new insight to the challenge of American Jewish continuity. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJews have historically lived within a paradox of faith and fear: faith that they are an eternal people and fear that their generation may be the last. In the United States, the Jewish community has faced to a heightened degree the enduring question of identity and assimilation: How does the Jewish community in this free, open, pluralistic society discover or create factors-both ideological and existential-that make group survival beneficial to the larger society and rewarding to the individual Jew?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbraham J. Karp's Jewish Continuity in America focuses on the three major sources of American Judaism's continuing vitality: the synagogue, the rabbinate, and Jewish religious pluralism. Particularly illuminating is Karp's examination of the coexistence and unity-in-diversity of American religious Jewry's three divisions-Orthodox, Reform, and Conservative-and of how this Jewish religious pluralism fits into the larger picture of American religious pluralism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInforming the larger enterprise through sharp and full delineation of discrete endeavors, the essays collected in Jewish Continuity in America-some already acknowledged as classics, some appearing here for the first time-describe creative individual and communal responses to the challenge of Jewish survival. As the title suggests, this book argues that continuity in a free and open society demands a high order of creativity, a creativity that, to be viable, must be anchored in institutions wholly pledged to continuity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Abraham J. Karp\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0817358226\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780817358228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Alabama Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 318\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.20d","brand":"Abraham J. Karp","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48086961651967,"sku":"9780817358228","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_eeb3845f-9c9a-4fbb-bb47-aad37f1ebd87.jpg?v=1769097499","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/jewish-continuity-in-america-abraham-j-karp-9780817358228","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}