yeshiva
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of Conservative Judaism. He is the former Provost of JTS, and was the founding director of the Joseph and Miriam Ratner Center for the Study of Conservative Judaism. Wertheimer has written and edited numerous books and articles on the subjects of modern Jewish history, education, and life.
Wertheimer won the
National Jewish Book Award
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for his edited volume ''Family Matters: Jewish Education in an Age of Choice.''
Books Written or Edited
*''Unwelcome Strangers: East European Jews in Imperial Germany'',
Oxford University Press
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, 1987
* ''The American Synagogue: A Sanctuary Transformed'',
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Pre ...
, 1987
* ''A People Divided: Judaism in Contemporary America'', Basic Books, 1993; Brandeis University Press, 1997
* ''The Uses of Tradition: Jewish Continuity in the Modern Era'', JTS Press/Harvard, 1993
* ''The Modern Jewish Experience: A Reader's Guide'',
NYU Press
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History
NYU Press was founded in 1916 by the then chancellor of NYU, Elmer Ellsworth Brown.
Directors
* Arthur Huntington Nason, 1916–19 ...
, 1993
* ''Tradition Renewed: A History of the Jewish Theological Seminary'', JTS Press, 1997
* ''Jews in the Center: Conservative Synagogues and Their Members'', Rutgers University Press, 2000
* ''Jewish Religious Leadership: Image and Reality'', JTS Press, 2004
* ''Family Matters: Jewish Education in an Age of Choice'', Brandeis University Press, 2007
* ''Imagining the American Jewish Community'', Brandeis University Press, 2007
* ''Learning and Community: Jewish Supplementary School in the Twenty-first Century'', Brandeis University Press, 2009
*''The New American Judaism: How Jews Practice Their Religion Today,'' Princeton University Press, 2018 (Winner of a 2018