Format:
1 online resource (314 pages)
ISBN:
9780195348965
Series Statement:
Studies in Contemporary Jewry Ser v.Vol. XVII
Content:
Bringing together contributions from established scholars as well as promising younger academics, the seventeenth volume of this established series offers a broad-ranging view of why Judaism, a religion whose observance is more honored in the breach in most western Jewish communities, hasgarnered attention, authority, and controversy in the late twentieth century. The volume considers the ways in which theological writings, sweeping social change, individual or small-group needs, and intra-communal diversity have re-energized Judaism even amidst secular trends in America andIsrael.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Symposium: Who Owns Judaism? Public Religion and Private Faith in America and Israel -- Introduction: The "Problem of Judaism" Today-Beyond Assimilation and Nationalism -- Who Has the Right to Change Tradition? Evolving Conceptions of Religious Authority and Their Implications for the Jewish People -- Modernists vs. Traditionalists: Competition and Legitimacy within American Conservative Judaism -- Judaism, Exile, and the State of Israel in Postwar American Jewish Theological Discourse -- Uzi Meshulam's "Mishkan Ohalim": A Contemporary Apocalyptic Messianic Sect in Israel -- Beyond Wissenschaft: The Resurrection of Resurrection in Jewish Thought Since 1950 -- Religiosity and Ethnicity: Jewish Identity Trends in the United States -- Women's Transformations of Public Judaism: Religiosity, Egalitarianism, and the Symbolic Power of Changing Gender Roles -- Judaism Resurgent? American Jews and the Evolving Expression of Jewish Values and Jewish Identity in Modern American Life -- Essay -- Frankfurter among the Anarchists: The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti -- Review Essays -- Asymmetries in America: Recent Work on Jews and Blacks -- Sand and Iron -- Jews, Intellectuals, and the Dreyfus Affair -- The Decline and Rise of German Antisemitism -- Book Reviews (arranged by subject) -- Antisemitism, Holocaust, and Genocide -- Zerstörte Nachbarschaften. Christen und Juden in Badischen Landgemeinden -- The Holocaust and History: The Known, the Unknown, the Disputed and the Reexamined -- Katholizismus und Antisemitismus im Deutschen Kaiserreich -- The Nazis' Last Victims: The Holocaust in Hungary -- How Silent Were the Churches? Canadian Protestantism and the Jewish Plight during the Nazi Era -- Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany -- Studying the Holocaust: Issues, Readings and Documents.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780195148022
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780195148022
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=281364
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