Thesis (Rabbinic)--Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, 1983. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 150-155).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2002. / Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xiv, 171 p: ill. Includes abstract and vita. Advisor. Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-130).

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2009. / Vita. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 128-134).

Lau, Sze Wing. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 101-108). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / Abstract in Chinese --- p.iii / Acknowledgments --- p.iv / Table Contents --- p.vi / List of Figures --- p.viii / List of Tables --- p.ix / List of Examples --- p.ix / List of Excerpts --- p.X / A Note on Transliteration --- p.xi / Chapter 1. --- Introduction: A Study of the Reform Jewish Cantorate in Hong Kong --- p.1 / The Call for a Jew to go to Hong Kong --- p.1 / Literature Review --- p.4 / Research Goal --- p.8 / Methodology and Fieldwork --- p.11 / Thesis Outline --- p.15 / Limitations --- p.16 / Chapter 2. --- The United Jewish Congregation of Hong Kong: A Historical and Social Context --- p.18 / The Jewish Community in Hong Kong --- p.18 / The United Jewish Congregation of Hong Kong and its Cantors --- p.25 / Summary --- p.41 / Chapter 3. --- Shani Ben Or: An Individual in the Building of the Cantorate from 2008 to 2010 --- p.44 / Shani's Childhood and Education --- p.45 / Coming to Hong Kong --- p.50 / Working as a Prayer Leader --- p.52 / Working as an Educator --- p.69 / Working as a Youth Director --- p.76 / Working as a Program Designer --- p.80 / Being a Performer --- p.81 / Summary --- p.84 / Chapter 4. --- Conclusion: The Building of the Reform Jewish Cantorate of Hong Kong --- p.86 / The Search for a New Cantor --- p.86 / The Historical and Social Context --- p.89 / The Individual Creator --- p.91 / Reconsidering Timothy Rice's Model --- p.93 / A Reform Jewish Cantor as an Expatriate in Hong Kong --- p.99 / Bibliography --- p.101 / Appendix I --- p.109 / Appendix II --- p.110 / Appendix III --- p.112 / Glossary --- p.114

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Reform Judaism is based precisely on the intellectual heritage of the Enlightenment (Haskalah) and its origins is dated back to the late 18th century. This movement was born in Germany, but the real boom and reform in the true sense of the word occurred in the first half of the 19th century in America with the arrival of European immigrants who brought with them new ideas influenced by European reform movement. The extraordinary success of the reform movement, that quickly spread across North America, resulted mainly from the religious tolerance. This dissertation deals with the issue of the impact of European Reform Judaism on American Reform Judaism in the 19th century in the context of cultural history, focusing on the characteristics, trying to describe different religious, ideological, political and socio- economic challenges affecting the Jewish community in the United States. Keywords Reform Judaism, USA, Europe, religion, state, tradition, woman, 19th century

American Reform Judaism currently associates the Kabalistic term, tikkun olam, with one of its core principles, social justice. This association is relatively new, dating roughly to the 1950s. The appropriation of a Kabbalistic term by American Reform Judaism is unusual given the historical animosity of American Reform Judaism toward the Kabbalah. The purpose of this thesis to explain this appropriation by contextualizing the use of tikkun olam within American Reform Judaism. The method through which this will be accomplished is the analysis of official documents, journal articles and theological discussions found within the American Reform movement. The thesis concludes that American Reform Judaism chose to appropriate tikkun olam and associate it with social justice in order to locate social justice in a historically Jewish context. This reworking of the concept of social justice to place it within a specifically Jewish frame work reflects the theological shift which occurs in reaction to the Holocaust, fears over Jewish assimilation and other social factors taking place during the 1940s and 1950s.