The Jewish Revival in America, II: Its Religious Side

Nathan Glazer

1956

But any honest observer of the contemporary scene must admit that the fading of traditional Jewish piety has not meant its replacement by more “Christian” forms of religious life, even though some of these have considerable sanction in the Jewish past. I think I do not exaggerate when I say there is nothing in American Jewish literature—and many…

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Nathan Glazer

1923–2019

The son of working-class Jewish immigrants to New York, Nathan Glazer studied at the City College of New York in the 1940s. Initially influenced by Marxism, Glazer’s politics became more conservative. In the 1960s, he produced significant criticisms of President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society programs. Glazer taught at the University of California at Berkeley and at Harvard University, and his sociological studies of race, ethnicity, and assimilation have been both widely influential and deeply controversial. He served on national committees related to urban policy and education.

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