Author: D. Cohn-Sherbok
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230372465
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Since the post-Enlightenment, Jews have fragmented into a variety of sub-groups, each with their own religious ideology. This book provides a description as well as a critique of these various Jewish religious groups and offers an alternative model of Judaism based on an assessment of the nature of contemporary Jewish life. As will be seen, modern Jews are deeply divided on a wide variety of issues. Given this situation, no uniform pattern of Jewish existence can be imposed from above, nor is it likely to emerge from within the body of Israel. What is required instead is a philosophy of Jewish autonomy which legitimizes Jewish subjectivity and personal decision-making. This philosophy of Judaism - which is referred to in this study as 'Open Judaism' - provides a new foundation for Jewish life as Jews stand on the threshold of the third millennium.
Modern Judaism
Author: D. Cohn-Sherbok
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230372465
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Since the post-Enlightenment, Jews have fragmented into a variety of sub-groups, each with their own religious ideology. This book provides a description as well as a critique of these various Jewish religious groups and offers an alternative model of Judaism based on an assessment of the nature of contemporary Jewish life. As will be seen, modern Jews are deeply divided on a wide variety of issues. Given this situation, no uniform pattern of Jewish existence can be imposed from above, nor is it likely to emerge from within the body of Israel. What is required instead is a philosophy of Jewish autonomy which legitimizes Jewish subjectivity and personal decision-making. This philosophy of Judaism - which is referred to in this study as 'Open Judaism' - provides a new foundation for Jewish life as Jews stand on the threshold of the third millennium.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230372465
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Since the post-Enlightenment, Jews have fragmented into a variety of sub-groups, each with their own religious ideology. This book provides a description as well as a critique of these various Jewish religious groups and offers an alternative model of Judaism based on an assessment of the nature of contemporary Jewish life. As will be seen, modern Jews are deeply divided on a wide variety of issues. Given this situation, no uniform pattern of Jewish existence can be imposed from above, nor is it likely to emerge from within the body of Israel. What is required instead is a philosophy of Jewish autonomy which legitimizes Jewish subjectivity and personal decision-making. This philosophy of Judaism - which is referred to in this study as 'Open Judaism' - provides a new foundation for Jewish life as Jews stand on the threshold of the third millennium.
The Jewish Renaissance and Some of Its Discontents
Author: Lionel Kochan
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719035357
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
On pp. 90-117, "The Task of the Historian, " objects to the tendency to turn the Holocaust into the central focal point of Jewish history and of the Jewish "civil religion." Speaks against attempts of historians and politicians to make the Holocaust a paradigm of pre-Israeli Jewish history and to connect the establishment of the State of Israel with the Holocaust.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719035357
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
On pp. 90-117, "The Task of the Historian, " objects to the tendency to turn the Holocaust into the central focal point of Jewish history and of the Jewish "civil religion." Speaks against attempts of historians and politicians to make the Holocaust a paradigm of pre-Israeli Jewish history and to connect the establishment of the State of Israel with the Holocaust.
Bruno Schulz and Galician Jewish Modernity
Author: Karen Underhill
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253057299
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
In the 1930s, through the prose of Bruno Schulz (1892–1942), the Polish language became the linguistic raw material for a profound exploration of the modern Jewish experience. Rather than turning away from the language like many of his Galician Jewish colleagues who would choose to write in Yiddish, Schulz used the Polish language to explore his own and his generation's relationship to East European Jewish exegetical tradition, and to deepen his reflection on golus or exile as a condition not only of the individual and of the Jewish community, but of language itself, and of matter. Drawing on new archival discoveries, this study explores Schulz's diasporic Jewish modernism as an example of the creative and also transient poetic forms that emerged on formerly Habsburg territory, at the historical juncture between empire and nation-state.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253057299
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
In the 1930s, through the prose of Bruno Schulz (1892–1942), the Polish language became the linguistic raw material for a profound exploration of the modern Jewish experience. Rather than turning away from the language like many of his Galician Jewish colleagues who would choose to write in Yiddish, Schulz used the Polish language to explore his own and his generation's relationship to East European Jewish exegetical tradition, and to deepen his reflection on golus or exile as a condition not only of the individual and of the Jewish community, but of language itself, and of matter. Drawing on new archival discoveries, this study explores Schulz's diasporic Jewish modernism as an example of the creative and also transient poetic forms that emerged on formerly Habsburg territory, at the historical juncture between empire and nation-state.
Between Kant and Kabbalah
Author: Alan L. Mittleman
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438413343
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
This is the first full-length, systematic study in English of Isaac Breuer, a founder of Agudat Israel, whose intellectual achievements reflected the world of Franz Rosenzweig and Martin Buber in an Orthodox mirror. It sheds light on an often neglected aspect of German Jewry's last phase and reclaims Breuer as a paradigmatic figure in the Jewish encounter with modernity.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438413343
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
This is the first full-length, systematic study in English of Isaac Breuer, a founder of Agudat Israel, whose intellectual achievements reflected the world of Franz Rosenzweig and Martin Buber in an Orthodox mirror. It sheds light on an often neglected aspect of German Jewry's last phase and reclaims Breuer as a paradigmatic figure in the Jewish encounter with modernity.
Studies in Contemporary Jewry: IV: The Jews and the European Crisis, 1914-1921
Author: Jonathan Frankel
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195051130
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Nazism, Normalcy and the German Sonderweg [by] Steven E. Aschheim (The Hebrew University). Signed by author.
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195051130
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Nazism, Normalcy and the German Sonderweg [by] Steven E. Aschheim (The Hebrew University). Signed by author.
The Nineteen Letters
Author: Samson Raphael Hirsch
Publisher: Feldheim Publishers
ISBN: 9780873066969
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Publisher: Feldheim Publishers
ISBN: 9780873066969
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The Future of Judaism
Author: Dan Cohn-Sherbok
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0567292673
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0567292673
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to American Judaism
Author: Dana Evan Kaplan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139827006
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
This volume provides readers with a comprehensive introduction to the most important and interesting historical and contemporary facets of Judaism in America. Written by twenty-four leading scholars from the fields of religious studies, American history and literature, philosophy, art history, sociology, and musicology, the book adopts an inclusive perspective on Jewish religious experience. Three initial chapters cover the development of Judaism in America from 1654, when Sephardic Jews first landed in New Amsterdam, until today. Subsequent chapters include cutting-edge scholarship and original ideas while remaining accessible at an introductory level. A secondary goal of this volume is to help its readers better understand the more abstract term of 'religion' in a Jewish context. The Cambridge Companion to American Judaism will be of interest not only to scholars but also to all readers interested in social and intellectual trends in the modern world.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139827006
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
This volume provides readers with a comprehensive introduction to the most important and interesting historical and contemporary facets of Judaism in America. Written by twenty-four leading scholars from the fields of religious studies, American history and literature, philosophy, art history, sociology, and musicology, the book adopts an inclusive perspective on Jewish religious experience. Three initial chapters cover the development of Judaism in America from 1654, when Sephardic Jews first landed in New Amsterdam, until today. Subsequent chapters include cutting-edge scholarship and original ideas while remaining accessible at an introductory level. A secondary goal of this volume is to help its readers better understand the more abstract term of 'religion' in a Jewish context. The Cambridge Companion to American Judaism will be of interest not only to scholars but also to all readers interested in social and intellectual trends in the modern world.
Heavenly Tablets
Author: Lynn R. LiDonnici
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004158561
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This volume brings together a wide range of international scholars of Ancient Judaism, whose essays explore various issues surrounding Jewish communities and Jewish identity in late antiquity. The essays are organized into three sections: Interpreting Ritual Texts, Mapping Diaspora Identities, and Rewriting Tradition.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004158561
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This volume brings together a wide range of international scholars of Ancient Judaism, whose essays explore various issues surrounding Jewish communities and Jewish identity in late antiquity. The essays are organized into three sections: Interpreting Ritual Texts, Mapping Diaspora Identities, and Rewriting Tradition.
I. L. Peretz and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture
Author: Ruth R. Wisse
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295805676
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
I. L. Peretz (1852–1915), the father of modern Yiddish literature, was a master storyteller and social critic who advocated a radical shift from religious observance to secular Jewish culture. Wisse explores Peretz’s writings in relation to his ideology, which sought to create a strong Jewish identity separate from the trappings of religion.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295805676
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
I. L. Peretz (1852–1915), the father of modern Yiddish literature, was a master storyteller and social critic who advocated a radical shift from religious observance to secular Jewish culture. Wisse explores Peretz’s writings in relation to his ideology, which sought to create a strong Jewish identity separate from the trappings of religion.