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
Sarna, Jonathan D.

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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.

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ISBN:

0742521230 (cloth : alk. paper)
0742521249 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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