How Long to Read Alternatives to Assimilation

How Long Does it Take to Read Alternatives to Assimilation?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 54 minutes to read Alternatives to Assimilation by Alan Silverstein

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Historians have long debated whether the mid-nineteenth century American synagogue was transplanted from Central Europe or represented an indigenous phenomenon. Alternatives to Assimilation examines the Reform movement in American Judaism from 1840 to 1930 in an attempt to settle this issue. Alan Silverstein describes the emergence of organizational innovations such as youth groups, sisterhoods, brotherhoods, a professionalized rabbinate, a rabbinical college, and a national congregational body as evidence of Jews responding uniquely to American culture, in a fashion parallel to innovations in American Protestant churches. Silverstein places the developments he traces within the context of American religious and cultural history. He notes the shifting roles of American women, children, and ethnic groups as well as America's changing receptivity to trans-Atlantic cultural influences. He also utilizes census records, as well as congregational and national archives, in synthesizing a view of the Reform movement from its local temples and nationwide organizations. By offering a viable response to American culture's rampant secularization and to its pressure on Jews to relinquish their distinctive traditions and commitments, the Reform movement also inspired emerging Conservative and Orthodox Jewish movements to offer their own constituents tangible institutional alternatives to assimilation.

How long is Alternatives to Assimilation?

Alternatives to Assimilation by Alan Silverstein is 292 pages long, and a total of 73,584 words.

This makes it 99% the length of the average book. It also has 90% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Alternatives to Assimilation Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 42 minutes to read Alternatives to Assimilation aloud.

What Reading Level is Alternatives to Assimilation?

Alternatives to Assimilation is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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