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Karp, Abraham Joseph was born on April 5, 1921 in Indura, Poland. Son of Aaron and Rachel (Schor) Karp. came to the United States, 1930, naturalized, 1930.
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Abraham Karp's widely regarded work, A History of the Jews in America, is the only comprehensive, one-volume history of the Jewish-American experience. It surveys Jewish life from the colonial period and the early Republic through the decades of mass immigration and to the present. The evolution of the modern Jewish community and religious organizations in the United States is also discussed.
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Jewish Continuity in America presents an overview of a life's work by a preeminent scholar and brings new insight to the challenge of American Jewish continuity. Jews have historically lived within a paradox of faith and fear: faith that they are an eternal people and fear that their generation may be the last. In the United States, the Jewish community has faced to a heightened degree the enduring question of identity and assimilation: How does the Jewish community in this free, open, pluralistic society discover or create factors-both ideological and existential-that make group survival beneficial to the larger society and rewarding to the individual Jew? Abraham J. Karp's Jewish Continuity in America focuses on the three major sources of American Judaism's continuing vitality: the synagogue, the rabbinate, and Jewish religious pluralism. Particularly illuminating is Karp's examination of the coexistence and unity-in-diversity of American religious Jewry's three divisions-Orthodox, Reform, and Conservative-and of how this Jewish religious pluralism fits into the larger picture of American religious pluralism. Informing the larger enterprise through sharp and full delineation of discrete endeavors, the essays collected in Jewish Continuity in America-some already acknowledged as classics, some appearing here for the first time-describe creative individual and communal responses to the challenge of Jewish survival. As the title suggests, this book argues that continuity in a free and open society demands a high order of creativity, a creativity that, to be viable, must be anchored in institutions wholly pledged to continuity.
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Abraham J. Karp's "Jewish Continuity in America" focuses on the three major sources of American Judaism's continuing vitality: the synagogue, the rabbinate, and Jewish religious pluralism. Particularly illuminating is Karp's examination of the coexistence and unity-in-diversity of American religious Jewry's three divisions -- Orthodox, Reform and Conservative -- and of how this Jewish religious pluralism fits into the larger picture of American religious pluralism.
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Karp, Abraham Joseph was born on April 5, 1921 in Indura, Poland. Son of Aaron and Rachel (Schor) Karp. came to the United States, 1930, naturalized, 1930.
Bachelor magna cum laude, Yeshiva University, 1942. Rabbi, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1945. MHL, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1949.
Doctor of Divinity, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1971. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Gratz College, 1985.
Research professor Jewish Theological Seminary American. Rabbi Beth Shalom Synagogue, Kansas City, Missouri, 1951-1956, Beth El, Rochester, New York, 1956-1972. Professor history and religious studies University Rochester, 1972-1991, Philip S. Bernstein professor Jewish studies, 1976-1991.
Visiting professor Dartmouth, 1967, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1970, Jewish Theological Seminary American, 1967-1971, 75-76. Correspondent member Institute Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University, since 1973.
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Member American Jewish History Society (president, chairman publications committee, Lee M. Friedman medal 1976), President's Historians Circuit Jerusalem, Rabbinical Assembly, Conference on Jewish Social Studies (vice president), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Deborah Burstein, June 17, 1945. Children: Hillel J., David J.