Guest guest Posted June 30, 2001 Report Share Posted June 30, 2001 An extremely, extremely good article on the role of 12-stepping in American Judaism is Heinze, 1999, 'The Americanization of Mussar: Abraham Twerski's Twelve Steps, " in Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought, Fall Issue. This article should be read by anyone with an interest in 12- Stepping in America, Jewish or not. Heinze is Associate Professor of History, and Director of the Swig Judaic Studies Program at the University of San Francisco. In 1990, he published Adapting to Abundance: Jewish Immigrants, Mass Consumption, and the Search for American Identity. Abraham Twerski is a psychiatrist, and son of a Hasidic rabbi. He is the most published and influential, and also most intellecually impressive, of those Jewish thinkers who are now re-interpreting Jewish tradition using 12-Step tools. Not only has his work had a very large resonance in the Jewish community, it has crossed over into the mainstream 'recovery' market. E.g., some of his work has been published and promoted by Hazelden. The article is available in full from Looksmart's Findarticle's.com. If you put 'Judaism' and '12-Step' into the search engine there, it should come up on the first page. It is really worth everyone's time to print out and read this particular piece, I think. It is the best and most interesting thing I have found. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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