Jack Wertheimer

Jack Wertheimer is Joseph and Martha Mendelson Professor of American Jewish History, The Jewish Theological Seminary. Wertheimer is the author or editor of more than a dozen volumes, including, The New Jewish Leaders: Reshaping the American Jewish Landscape (Brandeis University Press, 2011).

The New Jewish Leaders: Reshaping the American Jewish Landscape

By the end of the twentieth century, a new generation of leaders had begun to assume positions of influence within established organizations. They quickly...

Learning and Community: Jewish Supplementary Schools in the Twenty-First Century

At a time of heightened interest in Jewish supplementary schooling, this volume offers a path-breaking examination of how ten diverse schools have remade...

Inside Jewish Day Schools: Leadership, Learning, and Community

This book takes readers inside Jewish day schools to observe what they actually do. Many different types of Jewish day schools exist, and the variations...

A People Divided: Judaism in Contemporary America

This brilliant analysis of American Judaism in the last half of the 20th century won the 1993-94 National Jewish Book Award for the best book on contemporary...

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