Divergent Jewish Cultures

Author : Deborah Dash Moore
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030013021X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Divergent Jewish Cultures written by Deborah Dash Moore and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two creative centers of Jewish life rose to prominence in the twentieth century, one in Israel and the other in the United States. Although Israeli and American Jews share kinship and history drawn from their Eastern European roots, they have developed divergent cultures from their common origins, often seeming more like distant cousins than close relatives. This book explores why this is so, examining how two communities that constitute eighty percent of the world’s Jewish population have created separate identities and cultures. Using examples from literature, art, history, and politics, leading Israeli and American scholars focus on the political, social, and memory cultures of their two communities, considering in particular the American Jewish challenge to diaspora consciousness and the Israeli struggle to forge a secular, national Jewish identity. At the same time, they seek to understand how a sense of mutual responsibility and fate animates American and Israeli Jews who reside in distant places, speak different languages, and live within different political and social worlds.

Author : Eliezer Ben Rafael
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004129504
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Jewries written by Eliezer Ben Rafael and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work aims to explore whether one can still speak, at the beginning of the 21st century, of one Jewish People encompassing all Jews in the world and based on shared principles of collective identity. It covers factors of convergence and divergence that characterize contemporary Jewries.

Author : Dan Urian
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0714648892
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search of Identity written by Dan Urian and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of Israeli culture affords a meaningful insight into a society in a state of transition.

Author : Gerald J. Blidstein
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0765759578
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Judaism's Encounter with Other Cultures written by Gerald J. Blidstein and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1997 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The issue of Judaism's relationship to secular learning and wisdom is one of the most basic concerns of Jewish intellectual history. The authors collected in this study discuss both sides of the issue and collectively offer an eloquent and convincing case for the perpetuation of Judaism's dialogue with the 'outside' world.

Author : Jonathan Boyarin
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816627509
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jews and Other Differences written by Jonathan Boyarin and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roberta Rosenthal Kwall
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195373707
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Myth of the Cultural Jew written by Roberta Rosenthal Kwall and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A myth exists that Jews can embrace the cultural components of Judaism without appreciating the legal aspects of the Jewish tradition. This myth suggests that law and culture are independent of one another. In reality, however, much of Jewish culture has a basis in Jewish law. Similarly, Jewish law produces Jewish culture. Roberta Rosenthal Kwall develops and applies a cultural analysis paradigm to the Jewish tradition that departs from the understanding of Jewish law solely as the embodiment of Divine command.

Author : Michael M. Laskier
Publisher : University of Florida Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813036496
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Convergence of Judaism and Islam written by Michael M. Laskier and published by University of Florida Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Convergence of Judaism and Islam offers a fresh examination of Muslim and Jewish cultural interactions during the medieval and early modern periods.

Author : Susan A. Glenn
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295990554
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boundaries of Jewish Identity (Samuel and Althea Stroum Book) written by Susan A. Glenn and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 259 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?"

Author : David Biale
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 : 0805241310
Total Pages : 1234 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultures of the Jews written by David Biale and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2002-10-15 with total page 1234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WITH MORE THAN 100 BLACK-AND-WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT Who are “the Jews”? Scattered over much of the world throughout most of their three-thousand-year-old history, are they one people or many? How do they resemble and how do they differ from Jews in other places and times? What have their relationships been to the cultures of their neighbors? To address these and similar questions, twenty-three of the finest scholars of our day—archaeologists, cultural historians, literary critics, art historians , folklorists, and historians of relation, all affiliated with major academic institutions in the United States, Israel, and France—have contributed their insight to Cultures of the Jews. The premise of their endeavor is that although Jews have always had their own autonomous traditions, Jewish identity cannot be considered immutable, the fixed product of either ancient ethnic or religious origins. Rather, it has shifted and assumed new forms in response to the cultural environment in which the Jews have lived. Building their essays on specific cultural artifacts—a poem, a letter, a traveler’s account, a physical object of everyday or ritual use—that were made in the period and locale they study, the contributors describe the cultural interactions among different Jews—from rabbis and scholars to non-elite groups, including women—as well as between Jews and the surrounding non-Jewish world. Part One, “Mediterranean Origins,” describes the concept of the “People” or “Nation” of Israel that emerges in the Hebrew Bible and the culture of the Israelites in relation to that of the Canaanite groups. It goes on to discuss Jewish cultures in the Greco-Roman world, Palestine during the Byzantine period, Babylonia, and Arabia during the formative years of Islam. Part Two, “Diversities of Diaspora,” illuminates Judeo-Arabic culture in the Golden Age of Islam, Sephardic culture as it bloomed first if the Iberian Peninsula and later in Amsterdam, the Jewish-Christian symbiosis in Ashkenazic Europe and in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the culture of the Italian Jews of the Renaissance period, and the many strands of folklore, magic, and material culture that run through diaspora Jewish history. Part Three, “Modern Encounters,” examines communities, ways of life, and both high and fold culture in Western, Central, and Eastern Europe, the Ladino Diaspora, North Africa and the Middle East, Ethiopia, Zionist Palestine and the State of Israel, and, finally, the United States. Cultures of the Jews is a landmark, representing the fruits of the present generation of scholars in Jewish studies and offering a new foundation upon which all future research into Jewish history will be based. Its unprecedented interdisciplinary approach will resonate widely among general readers and the scholarly community, both Jewish and non-Jewish, and it will change the terms of the never-ending debate over what constitutes Jewish identity.

Author : Yedidya Itzjaki
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1611490367
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Uncovered Head written by Yedidya Itzjaki and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveying the evolution of the Jewish people and its culture and thought throughout the ages, this book describes the momentous results of Jewry's encounter with European Modernism. It traces how, over the past two-and-a-half centuries, pluralism and secularism first took hold in the Jewish world and then expanded until they are now the dominant feature and the driving force in contemporary Judaism. These issues are illuminated with a wide selection of works from Jewish literature and thought.