Introduction : the Philadelphia Group : a collective / Murray Friedman -- Isaac Leeser and the "Philadelphia pattern" / Lance J. Sussman -- "Souls have no sex" : Philadelphia Jewish women and the American challenge / Dianne Ashton -- The patriarch : the life and legacy of Mayer Sulzberger / David G. Dalin -- Sabato Morais and the founding of the Jewish theological seminary / Robert E. Fierstien -- Cyrus Adler, the Philadelphian / Ira Robinson -- Dr. Solomon Solis-Cohen and the Philadelphia Group / Philip Rosen -- Orthodox institution builder : Rabbi Bernard Lewis Levinthal / Philip Rosen -- The making of an American Jewish culture / Jonathan D. Sarna -- The Americanization of reform Judaism : Joseph Krauskopf : a case study / Martin P. Beifield, Jr. -- Jewish leadership then and now / Murray Friedman and Daniel J. Elazar.