Fishman

The Way Into the Varieties of Jewishness (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

An accessible introduction to the many ways Jews understand Jewishness and identify themselves and their communities-throughout history and today.

For everyone who wants to understand the varieties of Jewish identity, its boundaries and inclusions, this book explores the religious and historical understanding of what it has meant to be Jewish from ancient times to the present controversy over "Who is a Jew?" Beginning with the biblical period, it takes readers era by era through Jewish history to reveal who the Jewish community included and excluded, and discusses the fascinating range of historical conflicts that Jews have dealt with internally. It provides an understanding of how the Jewish people and faith developed, and of what the major religious differences are among Jewish movements today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Turner Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781580236768
• Artikelnr.: 38325093

Autorenporträt

Sylvia Barack Fishman, PhD, a well-known author of many articles and books including Double or Nothing? Jewish Families and Mixed Marriage and Jewish Life and American Culture, is professor of contemporary Jewish life at Brandeis University, and codirector of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute. She speaks frequently at temples and Jewish communal events as well as at academic conferences.

Inhaltsangabe

About The Way Into ... Timeline Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Ancient
Jews, Homeland, and Exiles Memories Out of Biblical Texts The Early Jews:
Hill Country Tribes and Ancient Israelites Kings and Kingdoms Divided
Jewish Nations Diaspora Judaism, and a Chance to Return Characteristics of
Early Jewishness Democratization and a Tradition of Sacred Interpretation
Jewish Encounters with Western Cultures Hellenizers, Hasmoneans, and Jewish
Pietists Pharisees and Sadduccees The Essenes Rabbinic Judaism and the
Written "Oral" Law Magic, Messianism, and Early Christians Mirror, Mirror:
Early Jewishness and Later Jews 2. The Wandering Jews Peoplehood and Jewish
Culture in the Diaspora The Jewish Calendar and Life Cycle Jewish
Integration on the Iberian Peninsula Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition
Jewish Culture in Medieval Christian Europe The Jewish Experience in the
Transition toward Modernity Sephardi Jews Strike Out for New Homes Trauma
and Messianism in Polish Jewish Life Hasidic and Mitnagdic Jewish Rivalry
3. Emancipating into Modern Jewishness Piecemeal Emancipation and the
"Brutal Bargain" Western Europe's Haskalah: Rationalism and the Jewish
Enlightenment The Reformer's Challenge Traditionalists Who Synthesized-or
Rejected-Modernity East European Haskalah: Secular Modern Movements and a
Jewish Enlightenment Zionism and the "New Jew" Exodus to America-Another
Kind of Zion 4. Reforming American Judaism A Large Movement with a Wide
Tent Custom-Making American "Classic" Reform Judaism East European Jews-and
Influence-Enter American Reform The 1960s Bring New-and Old-Styles of
Worship and Practice Contemporary Developments: Choosing Covenantal
Judaism-or Not 5. Shades of American Orthodoxy Dressing to Accommodate-or
Resist-American Culture Centrist Orthodoxy Modern Orthodoxy Ultra-Orthodoxy
The Evolution of American Modern and Antimodern Orthodox Models
Synthesizing America into Orthodox Lives Day Schools and the Text-Based
Revolution Triumphalism-and Tension 6. Conservative Judaism at the
Crossroads Conservative "Folk" and "Elites" American Conservative Judaisms
Evolve A Conservative Jewish Empire at Midcentury Challenge and Change:
Civil Rights Gender Egalitarianism and Conservative Judaism From Comfort to
Discomfort in the Center Conservation or Transformation in the Twenty-First
Century? 7. An American Kaleidoscope: Reconstructionist, Renewal, and
Secular Forms of American Jewishness Reconstructing American Jewish Life
Renewing Jewish Spirituality Secular and Cultural Jews Jewish Secular
Socialism Secular Social Activism American Secular Jewishness 8. Jews by
Choice Converts in the Jewish Community Three Types of Converts Historical
Jewish Approaches to Conversion Contemporary Communal Conversations about
Conversion Conversion and Jewish Identification Conclusion: Diversity and
the Future of the Jewish Renaissance Social Networks and the Jewish
Enterprise The Hyphenation of American-Jewish Values Creating Ethnic
Capital Jewish Ethnic Capital and the Melting Pot Jewish Counterculturalism
A Jewish Renaissance Learning from Each Other Notes Glossary Suggestions
for Further Reading Index