Deceptive Images is a profoundly thoughtful effort by a social scientist-who is a participant observer in American Jewish life-to come to terms with his concerns about how American Jews and Judaism have been studied, and his sensitivity to the policy implications of such studies

Contents
Preface
1 Introduction
2 The Sociology of Religion and the Study ofAmerican Jews
3 Religious Extremism
4 Orthodoxy Faces Modernity
5 Traditionalists and Transformationists
6 The Quality of Jewish Life
7 Reflections on Social Science and Jewish Public Policy
Bibliography
Index