Jews and the American public square : debating religion and republic / edited by Alan Mittleman, Robert Licht, and Jonathan D. Sarna
- Published:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2002]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2002
- Physical Description:
- x, 375 pages ; 23 cm
- Additional Creators:
- Mittleman, Alan, Licht, Robert, and Sarna, Jonathan D.
- Contents:
- An overview of American Jewish defense / Naomi W. Cohen -- Church-state dilemmas of American Jews / Jonathan D. Sarna -- Believers and the founders' constitution / Ralph Lerner -- The rule of law and the establishment clause / Martin J. Plax -- Religion and liberal democracy / Marc D. Stern -- Jewish activism in the Washington "Square" : an analysis and prognosis / Marshall J. Breger -- Uncertain steps : American Jews in the new public square / Harvey Sicherman -- The Jewish debate over state aid to religious schools / Jack Wertheimer -- Jewish involvement in the American public square : the organizational disconnect / Sherry Israel -- Public Jews and private acts : family and personal choices in the public square and in the private realm / Sylvia Barack Fishman -- Jewish critics of strict separationism / David G. Dalin -- Under his own vine and fig tree : the contemporary Jewish approach to religion in American public life and its problems / Hillel Fradkin -- Toward a Jewish public philosophy in America / David Novak.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 0742521230 (cloth : alk. paper)
0742521249 (pbk. : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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