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work_v2is62y3zramvdvusvfmxg2m7m	Jonathan D. Sarna	The Cult of Synthesis in American Jewish Culture	1998	38	.pdf	application/pdf	9336	663	62	THE CULT OF SYNTHESIS IN AMERICAN JEWISH CULTURE that for American Jews the cult of synthesis represented more than just a familiar Memorializing Brandeis in the American Jewish Year Book, the Zionist leader and cult of synthesis, parallel efforts to merge Jewish and American identities "settled opinion" of American Jews, according to the Cincinnati Reform Jewish the cult of synthesis suffused the folk religion of American Jews; by no means was Over the course of American Jewish history, the cult of synthesis has thus provided American Jews with the optimistic hope that, in America, they could have been "reinterpreted by American Jews as authentic Jewishness." Sarna, '"The Mythical Jewish Columbus and the History of America's Jews," in Religion in the Age of Kaplan, The Future of the American Jew (New York: 1\olacmillan. Wertkin, The Jewish Heritage in American Folk Art (New York: Universe American Jewish Culture (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1997).	./cache/work_v2is62y3zramvdvusvfmxg2m7m.pdf	./txt/work_v2is62y3zramvdvusvfmxg2m7m.txt