American Judaism: Adventure in Modernity
Theological work
By: Jacob Neusner
Date: 1972
Source: Neusner, Jacob. American Judaism: Adventure in Modernity. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1972, vii–viii, 1–3, 151–153.
About the Author: Jacob Neusner (1932–) was born in Hartford, Connecticut. He received an A.B. from Harvard in 1953, an M.H.L. from Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 1960, and a Ph.D. from Columbia in 1960. He has taught at various universities, including Columbia University, Dartmouth, and Brown. Neusner has also lectured at Yale, Notre Dame, and Oxford, among others. His hundreds of articles and books on Judaism have earned him the reputation of an expert in his field.
Introduction
By the 1970s, some American Jewish families were entering into their fourth and fifth generations in the United States. These were people who descended from Jews who had...
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1970's Religion Primary Sources
The 1970's: Primary Sources
