Jewishness And Beyond
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Jewishness And Beyond
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Author : Miklós Konrád
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2024-08-06
Jewishness And Beyond written by Miklós Konrád and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-08-06 with History categories.
Throughout the nineteenth century, Hungary's government steadily dismantled several obstacles that kept its rapidly expanding Jewish communities from enjoying the full benefits of citizenship. The state's concerted efforts to "Magyarize" Jews promoted Hungary's language, culture, and sensibilities, but did not require Jews to abandon their faith. Even so, tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews converted to Christianity during this era, with conversion rates continuing to rise even as Judaism gained full legal equality. Jewishness and Beyond addresses this apparent paradox between motivation and changed affiliation. Miklós Konrád examines conversion from a wide variety of unique sources, including community archival materials, synagogue speeches, parliamentary diaries, daily newspapers, life writings, works of fiction, collections of jokes, and more. He finds that between 1848 and 1914, most of the Hungarian Jews who converted to Christianity were motivated by worldly concerns; that despite the egalitarian promises and laws of Hungary's liberal nationalist government, legislators and other traditional elites maintained a persistent bias against Jews that spurred particularly high conversion rates among the community's upper echelons; and that while Christians never fully forgot converted Jews' origins and increasingly thought of them in racialized terms, they also appreciated and generally rewarded conversion and the symbolic gesture of baptism. Conversion was also an uneven and ever-shifting process in which gender and occupation played key roles, and where the actual percentage of converts vis-à-vis the total Hungarian Jewish population contrasted sharply with both Christian and Jewish perceptions of its frequency and spread. Jewishness and Beyond reveals the motivations and strategies behind Hungarian Jews' conversions, the complex reactions within and outside of their communities, and converts' own grappling with conversion's expected and unforeseen outcomes.
Beyond Innocence Redemption
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Author : Marc H. Ellis
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2016-04-25
Beyond Innocence Redemption written by Marc H. Ellis and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-25 with Political Science categories.
After the Gulf War and amidst the ongoing “peace process,” this timely book speaks to the need to address the deeper issues of Israel and Palestine—issues that concerned Jews, Arabs, and Christians must face if the legitimate rights of the Palestinians and the moral integrity of the State of Israel are to survive the rush to a “new world order” in the Middle East.
German Jews Beyond Judaism
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Author : George L Mosse
language : en
Publisher: Hebrew Union College Press
Release Date : 1997-05-01
German Jews Beyond Judaism written by George L Mosse and has been published by Hebrew Union College Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-05-01 with History categories.
Jews were emancipated at a time when high culture was becoming an integral part of German citizenship. German Jews felt a powerful urge to integrate, to find their Jewish substance in German culture and craft an identity as both Germans and Jews. In this reprint edition, based on the 1983 Efroymson Memorial Lectures given at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, George Mosse argues that they did this by adopting the concept of Bildung-the idea of intellectual and moral self-cultivation-and combining it with key Enlightenment ideas such as optimism about human potential, individualism and autonomy, and a connection between knowledge and morality through aesthetics. Personal friendships could be devoted to common pursuit of Bildung and become a means of overcoming differences, becoming a means for integration into German society. Mosse traces how Jewish artists, writers, and thinkers actively sought to participate in German culture and communicate these ideals through popular culture, scholarship, and political activity. From the historical biographies, novels, and short stories of Stefan Zweig and Emil Ludwig; to the psychoanalysis of Freud, which sought to subject irrationality to reason; to the revolutionary thought of Walter Benjamin-Jews sought to influence a mass political culture that was fast drifting into irrationality. As individualism was subsumed into nationalism, and eventually the German political right's racist version of nationalism, German-Jewish dialogue became more difficult. Jews remained idealistic as German society became less rational, their ideas corresponded less and less to the realities of German life, and they drifted out of the mainstream into an intellectual isolation. Yet out of this German-Jewish dialogue, what had once been part of German culture became a central Jewish heritage. The ideal of cultivating a personal identity beyond religion and nationality, the liberal outlook on society and politics, and the desire to transcend history by stressing what united rather than divided individuals and nations infiltrated Jewish life became an inspiration for many men and women searching to humanize their society and their own lives. Mosse's lectures trace the emergence of a form of Jewishness which resisted cultural ghettoization in favor of the pursuit of that which is universally human.
Judaism Beyond God
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Author : Sherwin Wine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-03-31
Judaism Beyond God written by Sherwin Wine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-31 with categories.
Judaism Beyond God presents an innovative secular and humanistic alternative for Jewish identity. It provides new answers to old questions about the essence of Jewish identity, the real meaning of Jewish history, the significance of the Jewish personality, and the nature of Jewish ethics. It also describes a radical and creative way to be Jewish - new ways to celebrate Jewish holidays and life cycle events, a welcoming approach to intermarriage and joining the Jewish people, and meaningful paths to strengthen Jewish identity in a secular age.
Judaism Beyond God
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Author : Sherwin T. Wine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
Judaism Beyond God written by Sherwin T. Wine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Religion categories.
Beyond A Reasonable Doubt
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Author : Shmuel Waldman
language : en
Publisher: Feldheim Publishers
Release Date : 2005
Beyond A Reasonable Doubt written by Shmuel Waldman and has been published by Feldheim Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Faith (Judaism) categories.
This book was written for the Jew who seeks evidence and proofs that the principal beliefs of Judaism are indeed true. Readable and friendly, inspiring and refreshing, this book presents the main issues of Judaism in depth. It includes compelling evidence to there being a Creator, evidence to the Divine origin of our Torah, to there being a spiritual soul and the World To Come, and Divine guidance throughout Jewish history. It discusses the problems with Evolution, and it deals with the Holocaust and human suffering. It also provides many other sources for further reading, and a glossary of terms. This edition is recommended for readers with a strong Torah background, seeking an informed, yet less secular, approach.
Beyond Faith
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Author : Aaron Minsky
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2008
Beyond Faith written by Aaron Minsky and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Religion categories.
"This is an important book which should see the light of day." - Rabbi Pinchas Stolper, Orthodox Union "I feel this work will be of great value to the thinking Jew." - Rabbi Yitzhak Rosenbaum, National Jewish Outreach Program "There is little doubt in my mind that this encyclopedic work will be an indispensable resource." - Rabbi Tovia Singer, Outreach Judaism, Israel National Radio "This book would also be beneficial to non-Jews who wish to know what Judaism thinks of them and their role in creation." - Rabbi Yisroel Fried, Chabad Lubavitch CLICK HERE to go to the author's personal website
Beyond Survival And Philanthropy
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Author : Allon Gal
language : en
Publisher: Hebrew Union College Press
Release Date : 2014-10-01
Beyond Survival And Philanthropy written by Allon Gal and has been published by Hebrew Union College Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-01 with Social Science categories.
What will hold American Jewry and Israel together as the traditional "crisis glue" melts down and the familiar and practiced Israeli call for aid retreats to the remote background of each community's existence? This is the question addressed by participants in a 1996 conference sponsored by the Center for North American Jewry of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Beyond Survival and Philanthropy is a collection of answers to this complex question offered by thirty-one leading Israeli and American scholars, educators, journalists, and communal leaders. They consider the cultural currents that have shifted American Jewish attitudes toward Israel from a mobilization model to a search-for-personal-meaning model and trace the historical roots of present tensions between religious and secular Jews in Israel. The views of Yehezkel Kaufmann, Ahad Ha-Am, and David Ben-Gurion are used to help differentiate between the state of exile, the sense of exile, and the recognition of exile. The place of Israel in American Jewish education and the treatment of American Jewry in Israeli schools is considered, and the backstory of recent efforts to streamline the institutional complex that raises funds for Israel and local needs in American Jewish communities is explored. Speaker of the Knesset Avraham Berg presents his view of how the changing natures of both Zionism and Judaism will affect all Jews in the twenty-first century. Sometimes agreeing, sometimes disagreeing, but always expanding upon these presentations, authors of the response essays in the volume reflect and underscore the values that precipitated this discussion: recognition of the unity of the Jewish people and of the continuing to share diverse views and opinions in order to formulate and address the crucial and sometimes radical choices that confront American Jewry and Israel.
Beyond Yiddishkeit
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Author : Frida K. Furman
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01
Beyond Yiddishkeit written by Frida K. Furman and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with History categories.
"Beyond Yiddishkeit deals in an intelligent and perceptive way with the issue of Jewish identity in an affluent and highly educated suburban community. Particularly significant is that it relies upon participant observation, as well as ethnographic interview techniques and data, on the part of the author. In this way, the work constitutes the first major study of this type conducted within the liberal Jewish American community. As such, it is a "pioneering" work. Equally impressive is the author's command of the sociological literature on issues of identity and her ability to apply it to the data gathered in this study. She makes sociological jargon intelligible and presents an easily-read and well-constructed book. Her ability throughout the work to focus on issues of modernity is insightful and brilliant. I found myself racing through the book and, indeed, read it in one sitting. This really is an unparalleled work in this field." — David Ellenson, Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion
Paul Judaism And The Gentiles
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Author : Francis Watson
language : en
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Release Date : 2007-09-14
Paul Judaism And The Gentiles written by Francis Watson and has been published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-14 with Religion categories.
This book is novel in its questioning of the adequacy of interpreting Paul from the perspective of the Reformation and in its application of sociological methods to the New Testament.