Format:
Online-Ressource (198 p)
ISBN:
9780875869032
Content:
This book offers information to everyone who is thinking about the position of Jews in today's world and in history.Throughout most of the Common Era there were two groups of Jews in the world: those who were visible and counted within the community, and those who "traveled under the radar". The book is about where they were, why they suddenly reappeared, and what lessons can be learned from their hidden identity and their reappearance.The author also examines contemporary Jews' own varying views of Jewishness and discusses what it means to be a Jew today
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Description based upon print version of record
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Introduction - What is a True Jew?; Chapter 1. The Enigma and the Solution; The Start of the Diaspora; The Jewish Transformation; The New Jews; Demonization; The Growth of Rabbinic Judaism; Newly Unaffiliated; Population Explosion; Challenge and Response; Chapter 2. The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; The Intellectual Environment; Origins; The Age of Enlightenment, 1690s to 1805; Academies and Learned Societies; The Republic of Letters; The Book Industry; Coffee Houses and Cafes; Salons; Debating Societies; Dawn in the Diaspora
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The Evolving Political Environment: The Jewish Population Centers of the DiasporaSpain; Poland; The Polish Jewish Community; The Polish Enlightenment; Russia; Jewish Society in the Eighteenth Century; Hasidism; The Mussar Movement; Haskalah; The New Judaism of the Nineteenth Century; Reform Judaism; The Orthodox Movement; Conservative Judaism; Jewish Emancipation; The Jews in the New World; Spiritual vs. Religious; Identifying the True Jew; Chapter 3. The Bottom Line - Avoiding the Same Old Same Old; The New Judaism; The True Jew; To Infinity and Beyond: What If…; The Great Rabbis of Yore
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The Rewards of Academic SuccessThere Are Rabbis and There Are Rabbis; It [Is] the Best of Times, It [Is] the Worst of Times; Seize the Moment; True Jews and the Entrepreneurial Rabbi; The Entrepreneurial Rabbi and the Self Sustaining Synagogue; Appendices; Appendix A: The Case of the Missing Jews; Appendix B: National Jewish Population Survey 2000-2001; Jewish Connections; Communal Affiliation And Jewish Connections; Appendix C: Jewish Population: Patriarchs to the Present; Appendix D: Jewish vs. World Population; Appendix E: Total World Jewish Population and Distribution
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Appendix F: Timeline of the Development ofthe Jewish People (CE); Appendix G: Timeline of the Jewish Communities of Poland; Bibliography;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780875869056
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780875869032
Additional Edition:
Print version True Jew
Language:
English
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