Jack Wertheimer

Author of A People Divided: Judaism in Contemporary America

About the Author

Jack Wertheimer is the Joseph and Martha Mendelson Professor of American Jewish History at the Jewish Theological Seminary. He is author or editor of more than a dozen books.

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Works by Jack Wertheimer

The New American Judaism: How Jews Practice Their Religion Today (2018) 48 copies

The American Synagogue: A Sanctuary Transformed (1988) 42 copies

Tradition Renewed: A History of the Jewish Theological Seminary (1997) 36 copies

The Uses of Tradition: Jewish Continuity in the Modern Era (Jewish Theological Seminary) (1993) 25 copies

Unwelcome Strangers: East European Jews in Imperial Germany (1987) 23 copies

The Modern Jewish Experience: A Reader's Guide (1993) 14 copies

Jews in the Center: Conservative Synagogues and Their Members (2000) 11 copies

Learning and Community: Jewish Supplementary Schools in the Twenty-First Century (2009) 9 copies

Family Matters: Jewish Education in an Age of Choice (2007) 6 copies

The New Jewish Leaders: Reshaping the American Jewish Landscape (2011) 5 copies

Imagining the American Jewish Community (2007) 5 copies

Tradition Renewed: A History of the Jewish Theological Seminary (2 Volumes), Volume 2 (1998) 4 copies

Jewish Religious Leadership: Image and Reality, Volume I (2014) 2 copies

Jewish Giving: Philanthropy and the Shaping of American Jewish Life (2025) 2 copies

Schools That Work: What We Can Learn From Good Jewish Supplementary Schools, 2009 (2009) 1 copy

Generation of Change: How Leaders in Their Twenties and Thirties Are Reshaping American Jewish Life 1 copy

All Quiet on the Religious Front? Jewish Unity, Denominationalism, and Postdenominationalism in the United States (AJC series on American Jewish Life) 1 copy

Jewish Religious Leadership Image and Reality 1 copy

Understanding the Holocaust 1 copy

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The Content of Their Character: Inquiries into the Varieties of Moral Formation (2018) — Contributor — 13 copies

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