«The Jewish Press» – A Gevalt from the Torah True

The book is a study of a Jewish Orthodox newspaper from New York. Reading this paper over a 40-year period makes for a new understanding of the phenomenon Orthodoxy. The Orthodox ideology of The Jewish Press is a result of hegemonic struggles with other ideologies about defining how to be Jewish in the modern world.

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lt;i>The Jewish Press' purpose is to promote Jewish Orthodoxy. The book explores this popular American Jewish newspaper and more precisely the development of the paper's ideology over a period of forty years offering a new understanding of the phenomenon Orthodoxy. Orthodoxy must be understood as a dynamic concept continually changing as a result of historical developments and hegemonic struggles with other ideologies about telling the Jew in modern society how he is to understand himself and the surrounding world.