R E Prell
Biographic Data
| ID | 9618 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R E Prell |
| GIVEN NAMES | R E |
| FAMILY NAME | Prell |
| SIGNATURE | PRELL R E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2138-0802 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rachel Gordan: Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American
Response to Bethamie Horowitz
Documenting Scholarly Dishonesty in Hyman Berman's 1976 Jewish Social Studies Article, "Political Antisemitism in Minnesota during the Great Depression," and Some of Its Political Consequences
This article draws attention to the distortions and falsehoods that appear in the 1976 Jewish Social Studies article "Political Antisemitism in Minnesota during the Great Depression" by Hyman Berman. It identifies and corrects the many errors on two of its pages. In addition, the role of Berman's article in a student movement at the University of Minnesota to remove names on four campus buildings of administrators who engaged in racist and antise…
Creative Paradoxes: A Tribute to the Retirement of Samuel Heilman
Social Selves and Tradition: Response to Chancellor Arnie Eisen
The Transnational Key: Response to Judit Bokser Liwerant’s 2017 Sklare Lecture
Assimilation and Authenticity: Some Thoughts on a J ewish Response
Boundaries, Margins, and Norms: The Intellectual Stakes in the Study of American Jewish Culture(s)
A Serious Man in Situ: “Fear and Loathing in St. Louis Park”
“Who ever heard of the Coen brothers anyway?” asked a Minneapolis woman with whom I was seated at a small party shortly after the opening of A Serious Man , in 2009. An accomplished and striking woman in her early seventies, Ms. S had lived in St. Louis Park, a first-ring suburb of Minneapolis, and the hometown of Joel and Ethan Coen. In fact, all of the women at the table where I was seated were likewise: affluent, politically and culturally act…
America, Mordecai Kaplan, and the Postwar Jewish Youth Revolt
America, Mordecai Kaplan, and the Postwar Jewish Youth Revolt Riv-Ellen Prell (bio) Mordecai M. Kaplan noted a particular anxiety in his diary on a December day in 1918 following his consultation with Jacob De Haas, executive secretary of the American Federation of Zionists. He was led to this "inquiry," he wrote, because "my longing for Palestine has been growing in intensity. I actually yearn to settle there with my family." The conversation we…
New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture, and the Class of '58 (review)
Reviewed by: New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture, and the Class of '58 Riv-Ellen Prell Sherry B. Ornter . New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture, and the Class of '58. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi + 340. Jeffrey Melnick wrote recently in a review in American Quarterly, the journal of American studies, that the study of American Jewish history follows two courses. The first, written by an "old guard," imagines Jewish culture…
Necrology: Charles S. Liebman (1934-2003)
T H E J E W I S H QUA R T E R LY RE V I E W, Vol. 94, No. 4 (Fall 2004) 672–676 Necrology Charles S. Liebman (1934–2003) RIV-ELLEN PRELL CHARLES LIEBMAN, one of the most distinguished social scientists of the Jewish people, died suddenly on September 3, 2003, in his sixtyninth year. Over the last forty years Liebman significantly shaped socialscience inquiry into both American and Israeli Jews and Judaism. He wrote and edited fourteen books and w…
Response to Jonathan Sarna’s Marshall sklare award lecture
Response to Charles Liebman
Developmental judaism: Challenging the study of American Jewish Identity in The Social Sciences
Introduction to special section
Women in the Presence: Constructing Community and Seeking Spirituality in Mainline Protestantism
Women in the Presence: Constructing Community and Seeking Spirituality in Mainline Protestantism. Jody Shapiro Davie. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.163 pp
New World Hasidim: Ethnographic Studies of Hasidic Jews in America. Janet S. Belcove‐Shalin
Women as Ritual Experts: The Religious Lives of Elderly Jewish Women in Jerusalem. Susan STARR Sered
Women in the Sanctuary Movement . Robin Lorentzen Rachel's Daughters: Newly Orthodox Jewish Women . Debra Renee Kaufman
Cosmopolitans and Parochials: Modern Orthodox Jews in America. Samuel C. Heilman and STEVEN M. Cohen
Prayer and Community: The Havurah in American Judaism
People as Subject, People as Object: Selfhood and Peoplehood in Contemporary Israel. Virginia R. Dominguez
Prayer and Community: The Havurah in American Judaism
Prayer and Community: The Havurah in American Judaism
Response to Charles Liebman
A Serious Man in Situ: “Fear and Loathing in St. Louis Park”
“Who ever heard of the Coen brothers anyway?” asked a Minneapolis woman with whom I was seated at a small party shortly after the opening of A Serious Man , in 2009. An accomplished and striking woman in her early seventies, Ms. S had lived in St. Louis Park, a first-ring suburb of Minneapolis, and the hometown of Joel and Ethan Coen. In fact, all of the women at the table where I was seated were likewise: affluent, politically and culturally act…
America, Mordecai Kaplan, and the Postwar Jewish Youth Revolt
America, Mordecai Kaplan, and the Postwar Jewish Youth Revolt Riv-Ellen Prell (bio) Mordecai M. Kaplan noted a particular anxiety in his diary on a December day in 1918 following his consultation with Jacob De Haas, executive secretary of the American Federation of Zionists. He was led to this "inquiry," he wrote, because "my longing for Palestine has been growing in intensity. I actually yearn to settle there with my family." The conversation we…
Film Reviews: Free Voice of Labor—The Jewish Anarchists . 1980. Directed by Joel Sucher and Steven Fischler
Film Reviews: Free Voice of Labor—The Jewish Anarchists . 1980. Directed by Joel Sucher and Steven Fischler
Film Reviews: The Alien's Place . 1979. A film by Rudolf van den Berg
Messianism, Mysticism, and Magic: A Sociological Analysis of Jewish Religious Movements
In this first sociological analysis of millenarian and mystical movements from the Middle Ages to the present, Sharot deals primarily with the Jewish masses. He describes religious currents in which hope focused on either a messiah who would bring redemption or on the means by which the individual could achieve mystical cleaving to God. Also discussed are Sabbatianism, Hasidism, Reform Judiasm, revolutionary socialism, Zionism, and the relationsh…
The Passover Seder: Afikoman in Exile. Ruth GRUBER FREDMAN
Keynote Remarks on Marriage
Why do we dance at weddings? What are we marking and celebrating? Scholars of the family and society have abandoned their efforts to discover for marriage a universal definition which was once thought of as helpful for answering these questions. The search for the lowest common denominator of marriage in all cultures that would reveal the universally shared features of the institution offers little insight into this ubiquitous and complex human r…
Dramas and Texts: The Anthropology of Victor Turner
Victor Turner. On the Edge of the Bush: Anthropology as Experience . Tucson, Arizona: The University of Arizona Press. 327 pp. $29‐95 (cloth
Jewish Continuity and Change: Emerging Patterns in America
Social/Cultural Anthropology: Renunciation and Reformulation: A Study of Conversion in an American Sect. Harriet Whitehead
Prayer and Community: The Havurah in American Judaism
Prayer and Community: The Havurah in American Judaism
People as Subject, People as Object: Selfhood and Peoplehood in Contemporary Israel. Virginia R. Dominguez
Prayer and Community: The Havurah in American Judaism
Women in the Sanctuary Movement . Robin Lorentzen Rachel's Daughters: Newly Orthodox Jewish Women . Debra Renee Kaufman
Cosmopolitans and Parochials: Modern Orthodox Jews in America. Samuel C. Heilman and STEVEN M. Cohen
Women as Ritual Experts: The Religious Lives of Elderly Jewish Women in Jerusalem. Susan STARR Sered
New World Hasidim: Ethnographic Studies of Hasidic Jews in America. Janet S. Belcove‐Shalin
Women in the Presence: Constructing Community and Seeking Spirituality in Mainline Protestantism
Women in the Presence: Constructing Community and Seeking Spirituality in Mainline Protestantism. Jody Shapiro Davie. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.163 pp
Developmental judaism: Challenging the study of American Jewish Identity in The Social Sciences
Introduction to special section
Response to Charles Liebman
Response to Jonathan Sarna’s Marshall sklare award lecture
Necrology: Charles S. Liebman (1934-2003)
T H E J E W I S H QUA R T E R LY RE V I E W, Vol. 94, No. 4 (Fall 2004) 672–676 Necrology Charles S. Liebman (1934–2003) RIV-ELLEN PRELL CHARLES LIEBMAN, one of the most distinguished social scientists of the Jewish people, died suddenly on September 3, 2003, in his sixtyninth year. Over the last forty years Liebman significantly shaped socialscience inquiry into both American and Israeli Jews and Judaism. He wrote and edited fourteen books and w…
New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture, and the Class of '58 (review)
Reviewed by: New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture, and the Class of '58 Riv-Ellen Prell Sherry B. Ornter . New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture, and the Class of '58. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi + 340. Jeffrey Melnick wrote recently in a review in American Quarterly, the journal of American studies, that the study of American Jewish history follows two courses. The first, written by an "old guard," imagines Jewish culture…
America, Mordecai Kaplan, and the Postwar Jewish Youth Revolt
America, Mordecai Kaplan, and the Postwar Jewish Youth Revolt Riv-Ellen Prell (bio) Mordecai M. Kaplan noted a particular anxiety in his diary on a December day in 1918 following his consultation with Jacob De Haas, executive secretary of the American Federation of Zionists. He was led to this "inquiry," he wrote, because "my longing for Palestine has been growing in intensity. I actually yearn to settle there with my family." The conversation we…
A Serious Man in Situ: “Fear and Loathing in St. Louis Park”
“Who ever heard of the Coen brothers anyway?” asked a Minneapolis woman with whom I was seated at a small party shortly after the opening of A Serious Man , in 2009. An accomplished and striking woman in her early seventies, Ms. S had lived in St. Louis Park, a first-ring suburb of Minneapolis, and the hometown of Joel and Ethan Coen. In fact, all of the women at the table where I was seated were likewise: affluent, politically and culturally act…
Sociology (30 works) · Philosophy (21 works) · Judaism (18 works) · History (17 works) · Jewish Identity and Society (17 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (16 works) · Theology (16 works) · Religious studies (14 works) · History (12 works) · Philosophy (12 works)