Cyrus Adler and The American: a Moment in the Intellectual History of American Jewry

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Section I. Cyrus Adler: Toward the Biography of an American Jew
5. The Invention of American Jewish History 2
6. Cyrus Adler and The American: a Moment in the Intellectual History of American Jewry 16
7. Cyrus Adler the Philadelphian 31
8. Two North American Kehillot and Their Structure: Philadelphia and Montreal 47
9. Cyrus Adler, Bernard Revel and the Prehistory of organized Jewish Scholarship in the United States 54
10. Cyrus Adler and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America: Image and reality 65
11. Cyrus Adler: President of the Jewish Theological Seminary, 1915-1940 86
12. The Correspondence of Cyrus Adler and Racie Friedenwald Adler: New Perspectives on the Development of American Jewry in the Early Twentieth Century 157
13. A Supplemental bibliography of Cyrus Adler 185
14. Section II. Orthodox Judaism in North America
15. The First Hasidic rabbis in North America 190
16. Anshe Sfard: the Creation of the First Hasidic Congregations in North America 206
17. Hasid and Maskil: The Hasidic Tales of an American Yiddish Journalist 223
18. Because of our Many Sins: The Contemporary Jewish World as reflected in the responsa of rabbi Moses Feinstein 241
19. That Marvelous Midos Machine: Audio Tapes as an orthodox Educational Medium 258
20. “Practically I Am a Fundamentalist” : Twentieth Century orthodox Jews Contend With Evolution and Its Implications 272
21. Section III. Contemporary American Judaism
22. American Jewish Views of Evolution and Intelligent Design 294
23. Index 316