Pledges Of Jewish Allegiance
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Pledges Of Jewish Allegiance
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Author : David Ellenson
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2012-01-18
Pledges Of Jewish Allegiance written by David Ellenson and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-18 with Religion categories.
Since the late 1700s, when the Jewish community ceased to be a semiautonomous political unit in Western Europe and the United States and individual Jews became integrated—culturally, socially, and politically—into broader society, questions surrounding Jewish status and identity have occupied a prominent and contentious place in Jewish legal discourse. This book examines a wide array of legal opinions written by nineteenth- and twentieth-century orthodox rabbis in Europe, the United States, and Israel. It argues that these rabbis' divergent positions—based on the same legal precedents—demonstrate that they were doing more than delivering legal opinions. Instead, they were crafting public policy for Jewish society in response to Jews' social and political interactions as equals with the non-Jewish persons in whose midst they dwelled. Pledges of Jewish Allegiance prefaces its analysis of modern opinions with a discussion of the classical Jewish sources upon which they draw.
Jewish Meaning In A World Of Choice
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Author : David Ellenson
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2014-10-01
Jewish Meaning In A World Of Choice written by David Ellenson and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-01 with Religion categories.
Internationally recognized scholar David Ellenson shares twenty-three of his most representative essays, drawing on three decades of scholarship and demonstrating the consistency of the intellectual-religious interests that have animated him throughout his lifetime. These essays center on a description and examination of the complex push and pull between Jewish tradition and Western culture. Ellenson addresses gender equality, women’s rights, conversion, issues relating to who is a Jew, the future of the rabbinate, Jewish day schools, and other emerging trends in American Jewish life. As an outspoken advocate for a strong Israel that is faithful to the democratic and Jewish values that informed its founders, he also writes about religious tolerance and pluralism in the Jewish state. The former president of Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, the primary seminary of the Reform movement, Ellenson is widely respected for his vision of advancing Jewish unity and of preparing leadership for a contemporary Judaism that balances tradition with the demands of a changing world. Scholars and students of Jewish religious thought, ethics, and modern Jewish history will welcome this erudite collection by one of today’s great Jewish leaders.
Humor Resistance And Jewish Cultural Persistence In The Book Of Revelation
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Author : Sarah Emanuel
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-01-09
Humor Resistance And Jewish Cultural Persistence In The Book Of Revelation written by Sarah Emanuel and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-09 with Bibles categories.
Positions Revelation within an ancient Jewish context and demonstrates how the author used humor to resist Roman power.
Ccar Journal The Reform Jewish Quarterly Summer 2022
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Author : Elaine Rose Glickman
language : en
Publisher: CCAR Press
Release Date : 2022-08-03
Ccar Journal The Reform Jewish Quarterly Summer 2022 written by Elaine Rose Glickman and has been published by CCAR Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-03 with Religion categories.
The CCAR Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly, Summer 2022 Published by CCAR Press, a division of the Central Conference of American Rabbis
Between Jewish Tradition And Modernity
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Author : Michael A. Meyer
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2014-10-20
Between Jewish Tradition And Modernity written by Michael A. Meyer and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-20 with History categories.
Although the ideas of “tradition” and “modernity” may seem to be directly opposed, David Ellenson, a leading contemporary scholar of modern Jewish thought, understood that these concepts can also enjoy a more fluid relationship. In honor of Ellenson, editors Michael A. Meyer and David N. Myers have gathered contributors for Between Jewish Tradition and Modernity: Rethinking an Old Opposition to examine the permutations and adaptations of these intertwined forms of Jewish expression. Contributions draw from a range of disciplines and scholarly interests and vary in subject from the theological to the liturgical, sociological, and literary. The geographic and historical focus of the volume is on the United States and the State of Israel, both of which have been major sites of inquiry in Ellenson’s work. In twenty-one essays, contributors demonstrate that modernity did not simply replace tradition in Judaism, but rather entered into a variety of relationships with it: adopting or adapting certain elements, repossessing rituals that had once been abandoned, or struggling with its continuing influence. In four parts—Law, Ritual, Thought, and Culture—contributors explore a variety of subjects, including the role of reform in Israeli Orthodoxy, traditions of twentieth-century bar/bat mitzvah, end-of-life ethics, tensions between Zionism and American Jewry, and the rise of a 1960s New York Jewish counterculture. An introductory essay also presents an appreciation of Ellenson's scholarly contribution. Bringing together leading Jewish historians, anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers and liturgists, Between Jewish Tradition and Modernity offers a collective view of a historically and culturally significant issue that will be of interest to Jewish scholars of many disciplines.
Jewish Christian Difference And Modern Jewish Identity
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Author : Shalom Goldman
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2015-06-09
Jewish Christian Difference And Modern Jewish Identity written by Shalom Goldman and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-09 with Religion categories.
This book is an exploration of what would seem to be a simple question, but is actually the object of a profound quest—“who is a Jew?” This is a deeply complex issue, both within Judaism, and in interactions between Jews and Christians. Jewish–Christian Difference and Modern Jewish Identity: Seven Twentieth-Century Converts contends that in the twentieth century the Jewish–Christian relationship has changed to the extent that definitions of Jewish identity were reshaped. The stories of the seven influential and creative converts that are related in this book indicate that the borders dividing the Jewish and Christian faiths are, for many, more fluid and permeable than ever before.
Covenant And The Jewish Conversion Question
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Author : Benji Levy
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-09-24
Covenant And The Jewish Conversion Question written by Benji Levy and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-24 with Religion categories.
Covenant and the Jewish Conversion Question reevaluates conversion and Jewish identity through the lens of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s dual conception of the Covenants of Fate and Destiny. By studying an array of key rabbinic texts through this lens, the book explores the boundaries and interplay between these biblical covenants through apostasy, holiness and the key elements relating to conversion law. This understanding provides a relevant framing device to deal with the conversion and Jewish identity crises faced in the State of Israel and beyond.
Jews And Their Foodways
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Author : Anat Helman
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015-10-28
Jews And Their Foodways written by Anat Helman and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-28 with Religion categories.
Food is not just a physical necessity but also a composite commodity. It is part of a communication system, a nonverbal medium for expression, and a marker of special events. Bringing together contributions from fourteen historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and literary critics, Volume XXVIII of Studies in Contemporary Jewry presents various viewpoints on the subtle and intricate relations between Jews and their foodways. The ancient Jewish community ritualized and codified the sphere of food; by regulating specific and detailed culinary laws, Judaism extended and accentuated food's cultural meanings. Modern Jewry is no longer defined exclusively in religious terms, yet a decrease in the role of religion, including kashrut observance, does not necessarily entail any diminishment of the role of food. On the contrary, as shown by the essays in this volume, choices of food take on special importance when Jewish individuals and communities face the challenges of modernity. Following an introduction by Sidney Mintz and concluding with an overview by Richard Wilk, the symposium essays lead the reader from the 20th century to the 21st, across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and North America. Through periods of war and peace, voluntary immigrations and forced deportations, want and abundance, contemporary Jews use food both for demarcating new borders in rapidly changing circumstances and for remembering a diverse heritage. Despite a tendency in traditional Jewish studies to focus on "high" culture and to marginalize "low" culture, Jews and Their Foodways demonstrates how an examination of people's eating habits helps to explain human life and its diversity through no less than the study of great events, the deeds of famous people, and the writings of distinguished rabbis.
There Shall Be No Needy
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Author : Jill Jacobs
language : en
Publisher: Jewish Lights Publishing
Release Date : 2010
There Shall Be No Needy written by Jill Jacobs and has been published by Jewish Lights Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Political Science categories.
Confront the most pressing issues of twenty-first-century America in this fascinating book, which brings together classical Jewish sources, contemporary policy debate and real-life stories.
Becoming Jewish
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Author : Netanel Fisher
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2016-12-14
Becoming Jewish written by Netanel Fisher and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-14 with Religion categories.
One of the most striking contemporary religious phenomena is the world-wide fascination with Judaism. Traditionally, few non-Jews converted to the Jewish faith, but today millions of people throughout the world are converting to Judaism and are identifying as Jews or Israelites. In this volume, leading scholars of issues related to conversion, Judaising movements and Judaism as a New Religious Movement discuss and explain this global movement towards identification with the Jewish people, from Germany and Poland to China and Nigeria.