ABSTRACT
The most important social and political process which changed the nature of the problematique of Jewishlife in the Diaspora was the crystallization and legitimation in their host societies of a new conception of Jewish collective life. The development of the Jewish population in the United States was relatively slow until the great wave of immigration from Eastern Europe. Jewish religion was fully accepted in a society based on the separation of Church and State as fully legitimate. The nature of Jewish social life, organization, public activity and ideologies of Jewish life changed greatly with the mass immigration from Eastern Europe. The Jewish education that developed in the United States - especially that in the non-orthodox circles - was based on entirely different premisses from those of the last great Jewish modern educational system in the Diaspora, that of Eastern Europe.
