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The United States Before In The 1880 Of The 19th Century On The Synagogue

Posted on:2008-05-18Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L G XiangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360215472224Subject:World History
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As for the American Jew, the time before 1880s was an important period. During this period, American Jew faced enormous challenges and opportunities. Under this background, the Jew survived in the America indomitably. At last, they grew into a powerful establishment in the American, and affected the American Government's domestic and foreign policies. During the process of the American Jew's growth, the synagogue played the vital role. The synagogue experienced three phases along with the American Jew's growth. There was a different characteristic in the every phase. The synagogue influenced the Jew significantly. The synagogue's history was a history of Jew's situation and the status vicissitude too.Under the instruction of Marxist historical materialism and Arnold Joseph Toynbee's theory called"the challenge and the reply", the article takes the condition of the Jew before 1880s as the circumstances, and analyses the American synagogue, then , studies its influence on the American Jew in every development phase. The text can be divided into three parts.Firstly, the Jew faced a lot of challenges and opportunities in the colony era, under this kind of condition, the synagogues started to establish, the relations of their internal member and the operation mechanism were very especial, the revenue and expenditure of the synagogue were also very important questions. The characteristics of the synagogues influenced the Jew's life profoundly.Secondly, the foundation of the USA impacted the Jew's life, the Jew faced new social circumstances. Under this background, the synagogue started to split, faced new competition, and there was a lot of innovation appeared in the interior. The new changes all affected the American Jew's life profoundly.Thirdly, the time from the 1830s to the 1870s was time of the US's big development, it was the time of the American Jew's development .In this half century, the American Jew contacted the brand-new social environment. The synagogue expanded rapidly, the internal innovation got new evolution, the women's status rose, and the synagogue knows the Judaism again. The characteristics what the synagogues presented in this time influenced the American Jew, even the Jew all round the world.The conclusion summarized the relation of the three parts, the American Jew's circumstance, the synagogue's development and the effect on the Jew produced by the synagogue's development. The existence and the development of the synagogue played an important role in the American Jew's growth history,synagogue was an essential condition for the progress of the American Jew's growing up.
Keywords/Search Tags:America, Judaism, American Jew, American synagogue
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