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Jews and the American public square : debating religion and republic

Title
Jews and the American public square : debating religion and republic / edited by Alan Mittleman, Robert Licht, and Jonathan D. Sarna.
Publication
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2002.

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Additional Authors
  • Mittleman, Alan.
  • Licht, Robert.
  • Sarna, Jonathan D.
Description
x, 375 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Jews > United States > History
  • Jews > United States > Politics and government
  • Jews > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States
  • Judaism and politics
  • Religion and state
  • Constitutional history > United States
  • United States > Ethnic relations
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- 12. 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.
Call Number
*PXY 02-4600
ISBN
  • 0742521230 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0742521249 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2002007468
OCLC
49853191
Title
Jews and the American public square : debating religion and republic / edited by Alan Mittleman, Robert Licht, and Jonathan D. Sarna.
Imprint
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2002.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Mittleman, Alan.
Licht, Robert.
Sarna, Jonathan D.
Research Call Number
*PXY 02-4600
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