Sir Jonathan Sacks

Radical Then, Radical Now

On Being Jewish

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this text, the main tenets of the Jewish faith are explained in an accessible manner.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 178mm x 127mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9780826473363
• ISBN-10: 0826473369
• Artikelnr.: 21148209

Autorenporträt

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, who died in late 2020, was Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of Britain and the Commonwealth. He was the author of numerous books, including Celebrating Life, From Optimism to Hope , The Persistence of Faith and The Dignity of Difference, for which he won a Grawemeyer Award in Religion.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Prologue
Part I: The Question
1. Why Be Jewish?
2. Answers
3. Who Am I? Who Are We?
4. A Letter in the Scroll
Part II: The Journey
5. A Palace in Flames
6. The Idea of Man
7. Conventional Mortality
8. The Chosen People
Part III: The Vision
9. Exodus and Revelation
10. Conventional Society
11. Tragedy and Triumph
12. Truth Lived
Part IV: The Future
13. In the Valley of the Shadow
14. Ambivalence and Assimilation
15. This is Ours
16. Why Am I a Jew?
References
Acknowledgements
Index