Response to Steven M. Cohen’s Marshall Sklare Lecture, AJS 2010

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Sarah Bunin Benor1
1Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles, USA

Tóm tắt

This brief response focuses on Steven Cohen’s contributions to the field, supports his focus on the opposition between Orthodox and non-Orthodox Jews, and argues for less of a focus on intermarriage.

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