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Author : Susan A Glenn
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295800836
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boundaries of Jewish Identity written by Susan A Glenn and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of Jewish identity is one of the most vexed and contested issues of modern religious and ethnic group history. This interdisciplinary collection draws on work in law, anthropology, history, sociology, literature, and popular culture to consider contemporary and historical responses to the question �Who and what is Jewish?� These essays are focused especially on the issues of who creates the definitions, and how, and in what social and political contexts. The ten leading authorities writing here also look at the forces, ranging from new genetic and reproductive technologies to increasingly multicultural societies, that push against established boundaries. The authors examine how Jews have imagined themselves and how definitions of Jewishness have been established, enforced, challenged, and transformed. Does being a Jew require religious belief, practice, and formal institutional affiliation? Is there a biological or physical aspect of Jewish identity? What is the status of the convert to another religion? How do definitions play out in different geographic and historical settings? What makes Boundaries of Jewish Identity distinctive is its attention to the various Jewish �epistemologies� or ways of knowing who counts as a Jew. These essays reveal that possible answers reflect the different social, intellectual, and political locations of those who are asking. This book speaks to readers concerned with Jewish life and culture and to audiences interested in religious, cultural, and ethnic studies. It provides an excellent opportunity to examine how Jews fit into an increasingly diverse America and an increasingly complicated global society.

Author : Massimo Mastrogregori
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110341743
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 2010 written by Massimo Mastrogregori and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-12-12 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year, the Bibliography catalogues the most important new publications, historiographical monographs, and journal articles throughout the world, extending from prehistory and ancient history to the most recent contemporary historical studies. Within the systematic classification according to epoch, region, and historical discipline, works are also listed according to author’s name and characteristic keywords in their title.

Author : Maria Diemling
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138786431
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boundaries, Identity and Belonging in Modern Judaism written by Maria Diemling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boundaries, Identity and Belonging in Modern Judaism addresses these new dimensions, bringing together experts in the field to explore the various and fluid modes of expressing and defining Jewish identity in the modern world. Its interdisciplinary scholarship opens new perspectives on the prominent questions challenging scholars in Jewish Studies. Beyond simply being born Jewish, observance of Judaism has become a lifestyle choice and active assertion. Addressing the demographic changes brought by population mobility and 'marrying out, ' as well as the complex relationships between Israel and the Diaspora, this book reveals how these shifting boundaries play out in a global context, where Orthodoxy meets innovative ways of defining and acquiring Jewish identity.

Author : Naomi B. Sokoloff
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295743778
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans) written by Naomi B. Sokoloff and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Hebrew, here and now? What is its value for contemporary Americans? In What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans) scholars, writers, and translators tackle a series of urgent questions that arise from the changing status of Hebrew in the United States. To what extent is that status affected by evolving Jewish identities and shifting attitudes toward Israel and Zionism? Will Hebrew programs survive the current crisis in the humanities on university campuses? How can the vibrancy of Hebrew literature be conveyed to a larger audience? The volume features a diverse group of distinguished contributors, including Sarah Bunin Benor, Dara Horn, Adriana Jacobs, Alan Mintz, Hannah Pressman, Adam Rovner, Ilan Stavans, Michael Weingrad, Robert Whitehill-Bashan, and Wendy Zierler. With lively personal insights, their essays give fellow Americans a glimpse into the richness of an exceptional language. Celebrating the vitality of modern Hebrew, this book addresses the challenges and joys of being a Hebraist in America in the twenty-first century. Together these essays explore ways to rekindle an interest in Hebrew studies, focusing not just on what Hebrew means—as a global phenomenon and long-lived tradition—but on what it can mean to Americans.

Author : Samuel C. Heilman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780295974705
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portrait of American Jews written by Samuel C. Heilman and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that while American life permits Jews to live in security, this security has led to new concerns--assimilation, intermarriage, and large numbers ignoring their heritage.

Author : Daniel Boyarin
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812203844
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Border Lines written by Daniel Boyarin and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical separation between Judaism and Christianity is often figured as a clearly defined break of a single entity into two separate religions. Following this model, there would have been one religion known as Judaism before the birth of Christ, which then took on a hybrid identity. Even before its subsequent division, certain beliefs and practices of this composite would have been identifiable as Christian or Jewish.In Border Lines, however, Daniel Boyarin makes a striking case for a very different way of thinking about the historical development that is the partition of Judaeo-Christianity. There were no characteristics or features that could be described as uniquely Jewish or Christian in late antiquity, Boyarin argues. Rather, Jesus-following Jews and Jews who did not follow Jesus lived on a cultural map in which beliefs, such as that in a second divine being, and practices, such as keeping kosher or maintaining the Sabbath, were widely and variably distributed. The ultimate distinctions between Judaism and Christianity were imposed from above by "border-makers," heresiologists anxious to construct a discrete identity for Christianity. By defining some beliefs and practices as Christian and others as Jewish or heretical, they moved ideas, behaviors, and people to one side or another of an artificial border—and, Boyarin significantly contends, invented the very notion of religion.

Author : Samuel M. Stahl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781571688644
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boundaries, Not Barriers written by Samuel M. Stahl and published by . This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human beings traditionally have shunned others who are different because of their skin color, religious beliefs, or social status. Tragically, all too often, these differences have provoked hostility and bloodshed. Such has been true of many who have encountered Jews over the centuries. In the last few decades, however, the world has witnessed a remarkable transformation in attitude, even though fringes of hate groups still persist. We have discovered that differences need not be threatening. Rather they may be positive and may even enrich interpersonal relations. Jews and others can fully embrace their own unique identity, while reaching out to those outside of their own communities. Indeed, boundaries need not be barriers.

Author : David Theo Goldberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781566390408
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Identity written by David Theo Goldberg and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of essays focused on the conceptual features of cultural identity, philosophers discuss the conditions underlying committment to contemporary Jewishness, and the cultural and moral obligations this committment May entail.

Author : Zev Farber
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110343363
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Images of Joshua in the Bible and Their Reception written by Zev Farber and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central theme of the book is the relationship between a hero or cultural icon and the cultures in which he or she is venerated. On one hand, a hero cannot remain a static character if he or she is to appeal to diverse and dynamic communities. On the other hand, a traditional icon should retain some basic features in order to remain recognizable. Joshua son of Nun is an iconic figure of Israelite cultural memory described at length in the Hebrew Bible and venerated in numerous religious traditions. This book uses Joshua as a test case. It tackles reception and redaction history, focusing on the use and development of Joshua’s character and the deployment of his various images in the narratives and texts of several religious traditions. I look for continuities and discontinuities between traditions, as well as cross-pollination and polemic. The first two chapters look at Joshua’s portrayal in biblical literature, using both synchronic (literary analysis) as well as diachronic (Überlieferungsgeschichte and redaction/source criticism) methodologies. The other four chapters focus on the reception history of Joshua in Second Temple and Hellenistic Jewish literature, in the medieval (Arabic) Samaritan Book of Joshua, in the New Testament and Church Fathers, and in Rabbinic literature.

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Total Pages : 2476 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Subject Guide to Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 2476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: