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Jack Wertheimer

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Jack Wertheimer is a Professor of American Jewish History at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, the flagship yeshiva of Conservative Judaism.

His book A People Divided: Judaism in Contemporary America won the National Jewish Book Award in 1994.

He is the director of the Joseph and Miriam Ratner Center for the Study of Conservative Judaism

Author and Editor of Books

Unwelcome Strangers: East European Jews in Imperial Germany, published by Oxford University Press in 1987

The American Synagogue: A Sanctuary Transformed, published by Cambridge University Press in 1987

The Uses of Tradition: Jewish Continuity in the Modern Era (JTS/Harvard)

The Modern Jewish Experience—A Reader's Guide (NYU Press)

A People Divided: Judaism in Contemporary America Basic Books, 1993. Reissued by University Press of New England in September 1997.