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| Material Type: | Conference publication |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Raphael Patai; Emanuel S Goldsmith |
| ISBN: | 1557787077 9781557787071 |
| OCLC Number: | 32508119 |
| Notes: | "Papers presented at two conferences on 'Influences in the Reconfiguration of Modern Judaism'"--Introd. |
| Description: | xiii, 302 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1881: watershed year of modern Jewish history / Richard L. Rubenstein -- The Holocaust and Jewish social policy / Samuel Z. Klausner -- Demographic transitions, modernization and the transformation of Judaism / Calvzn Coldscheider -- The challenges of modernization / Joseph R. Rosenbloom -- Modern Jewish studies and Bible research / Benjamin Uffenheimer -- The holy and the orthodox / Samuel C. Heilman -- Pluralism and orthodoxy / Mtchael C. Berenbaum -- Themes in modern orthodox theology / Charles Selengut -- Progressive Jewish liturgies in Great Britain / John D. Rayner -- Recent theological developments in liberal Judaism / William E. Kaufman -- A secular view of religion in Israel / Saul Patai -- Toward a post-zionist model of Jewish life / David M. Gordis -- The reintegration of Middle Eastern Jewry / Guy H. Haskell -- The situation of the American Jew / Michael G. Berenbaum -- The Havurot in American Judaism / Riv-Ellen Prell -- The end of patriarchy in Jewish conversation / Sheldon R. Isenberg -- New roles for Jewish women / Livia Bitton-Jackson. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Raphael Patai and Emanuel S. Goldsmith. |
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Abstract:
These seventeen essays discuss the major events and trends in modern Jewish history as well as religious and secular movements which have responded to those trends and events. From "1881: Watershed Year of Modern Jewish History" through to the "New Roles for Jewish Women," the Jewish community has been challenged in the face of tragedy and historical change. Jewish culture and social philosophy have radically and sometimes tragically been transformed, to the point that, despite its unbreakable historical continuity, the Jewish identity has been abruptly altered. After the cataclysmic events of mid-centurythe Holocaust, the establishment of Israel, the return of Oriental Jewry, and the loosening of the traditional religious bonds - the search for new understandings has been the most significant feature of modern Judaism.
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