Free As A Jew

Author : Ruth R. Wisse
Publisher : Wicked Son
ISBN 13 : 1642939714
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Free as a Jew written by Ruth R. Wisse and published by Wicked Son. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First came parents with the good sense to flee Europe in 1940 and the good fortune to reach the land of freedom. Their daughter, Ruth, grew up in the shadow of genocide—but in tandem with the birth of Israel, which remained her lodestar. She learned that although Jewishness is biologically transmitted, democracy is not, and both require intensive, intelligent transmission through education in each and every generation. They need adults with the confidence to teach their importance. Ruth tried to take on that challenge as dangers to freedom mounted and shifted sides on the political spectrum. At the high point of her teaching at Harvard University, she witnessed the unraveling of standards of honesty and truth until the academy she left was no longer the one she had entered.

Author : Rabbi Ted Falcon
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118053702
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Judaism For Dummies written by Rabbi Ted Falcon and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-03-16 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judaism isn’t a race or even a particular culture or ethnic group. There are about 13 or 14 million Jews spread around the world, including about 6 million in the United States and about 5 million in Israel – so Judaism clearly isn’t “a nation.” So what does it mean to be Jewish? Here are the basics: Being Jewish (being “a Jew”) means you’re a Member of the Tribe (an M-O-T). The tribe started with a couple named Abraham and Sarah about 4,000 years ago, it grew over time, and it’s still here today. You can become part of the Jewish tribe in two ways: By being born to a Jewish mother or joining through a series of rituals (called converting). Judaism is a set of beliefs, practices, and ethics based on the Torah. You can practice Judaism and not be Jewish, and you can be a Jew and not practice Judaism. Whether you're interested in the religion or the spirituality, the culture or the ethnic traditions, Judaism For Dummies explores the full spectrum of Judaism, dipping into the mystical, meditative, and spiritual depth of the faith and the practice. In this warm and welcoming book, you'll find coverage of Orthodox Jews and breakaway denominations Judaism as a daily practice The food and fabric of Judaism Jewish wedding ceremonies Celebrations and holy days 4,000 years of pain, sadness, triumph, and joy Great Jewish thinkers and historical celebrities Jews have long spread out to the corners of the world, so there are significant Jewish communities on many continents. Judaism For Dummies offers a glimpse into the rituals, ideas, and terms that are woven into the history and everyday lives of Jewish people as near as our own neighborhoods and as far-reaching as across the world.

Author : Harry Gersh
Publisher : Behrman House, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780874410914
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When a Jew Celebrates written by Harry Gersh and published by Behrman House, Inc. This book was released on 1971 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the special days celebrated by a Jew and the Jewish community.

Author : Shelley Kirilenko
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781490406367
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Year As a Jew written by Shelley Kirilenko and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a Norwegian Quaker from Montana end up at the Jewish Outreach Center carrying Torah scrolls? Shelley Kirilenko grew up outside of Missoula in a blue-collar neighborhood called Target Range. Her neighbors were truck drivers and loggers and cowboys, and her bedroom window looked out on a massive horse pasture. Her idea of diversity was seeing the name Olsen spelled with an -on instead of an -en. She had never met anyone who didn't celebrate Christmas and had only a vague notion of what Chanukah and Passover were. The only encounter she had with Judaism in her childhood was eating kosher pickles.Fast-forward twenty years: Shelley moves to Washington DC after her husband snags a job with the government. On a lark, she signs up for a free crash course in Hebrew at a place called the Jewish Outreach Center. Little did she know that she would end up being part of a world she never even knew existed. A world of lighting Shabbat candles and reciting the Shema and getting tipsy on Purim. A world of Torah study and joy and atonement. For one year she would study Hebrew and celebrate Jewish holidays. A cowgirl from Montana among pious Orthodox people. This book is the product of that year.

Author : Avi Sagi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0826439063
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Be a Jew written by Avi Sagi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Be a Jew deals with the question of the meaning and rationale that the writer Joseph Chayim Brenner attributes to Jewish existence. Many of Brenner's readers assumed that Brenner completely negated Jewish existence and sought to form a new way of life completely disconnected from the traditional Jewish existence. In contrast to this perception, Avi Sagi proves that not only did Brenner not reject the value of the Jewish existence, but the core of his creation was written out of a deep Jewish commitment. Brenner's greatest innovation is found in his new conception of Jewish existence. To be a Jew, according to Brenner, involves the willingness to discover solidarity with actual Jews, to participate in a society in which Jews can live a free life and to fashion their culture as they wish. Sagi presents the idea that Brenner's is not a Utopian, but a realistic, conception of Jewish existence. Thus this unique conception of Jewish existence is founded on an infrastructure of existential thought.

Author : Michael Graubart Levin
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780881255379
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Every Jew Needs to Know about God written by Michael Graubart Levin and published by KTAV Publishing House, Inc.. This book was released on 1997 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ninety-two percent of American Jews have a sporadic relationship to Judaism at best. When attending synagogue (as infrequently as possible) they feel, as Michael Levin puts it, "bored, shnorred and ignored." What Every Jew Needs to Know About God is addressed to those people, and attempts to provide at least the beginnings of an answer to those questions which most American Jews feel have not been adequately treated by the organized religious Jewish community." "As Levin puts it, "my suspicion is that a lot of Jews wish they had a deeper understanding not of how to celebrate this holiday or how to observe this particular custom - I think a lot of Jews are curious about God." And so Levin in his exposition keeps God at the center of his attention, and, in particular, the individual's need for a relationship with his or her Creator from a Jewish perspective."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : David Rudolph
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498296165
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Jew to the Jews written by David Rudolph and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David J. Rudolph raises new questions about Paul's view of the Torah and Jewish identity in this post-supersessionist interpretation of 1 Corinthians 9:19-23. Paul's principle of accommodation is considered in light of the diversity of Second Temple Judaism and Jesus' example and rule of accommodation.

Author : Arthur G. Gish
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1610973631
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Muslim, Christian, Jew written by Arthur G. Gish and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A major challenge for people of faith is to resist the growing demonization of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism . . . I want to do something to build bridges between the three religions. I feel called to embody in my own life the healing, the reconciliation, the unity I long for between people of different religions." Art Gish became involved in the life and worship of all three religions; he considered himself a Christian, a Muslim, and a Jew, and worked at integrating those three perspectives into his life. Acknowledging that Judaism, Islam, and Christianity are all threatened by narrow-minded, violent extremists who put the particular interests of their own people above our common interests, he tells inspiring stories of open-minded Muslims, Jews, and Christians who struggle together for reconciliation and who confront injustices that spawn hostility. Gish looks not only at the disagreements but also at the unity of the three Abrahamic faiths. He writes, "When people cross boundaries, exciting things happen. Each time in Israel/Palestine that I experience Jews, Muslims, and Christians eating, working, laughing, and crying together, I sense a foretaste of the coming kingdom of God, a demonstration of how things could be, and one day will be."

Author : Micah Goodman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300255993
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wondering Jew written by Micah Goodman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebrated Israeli author explores the roots of the divide between religion and secularism in Israel today, and offers a path to bridging the divide Zionism began as a movement full of contradictions, between a pull to the past and a desire to forge a new future. Israel has become a place of fragmentation, between those who sanctify religious tradition and those who wish to escape its grasp. Now, a new middle ground is emerging between religious and secular Jews who want to engage with their heritage—without being restricted by it or losing it completely. In this incisive book, acclaimed author Micah Goodman explores Israeli Judaism and the conflict between religion and secularism, one of the major causes of political polarization throughout the world. Revisiting traditional religious sources and seminal works of secularism, he reveals that each contains an openness to learn from the other’s messages. Goodman challenges both orthodoxies, proposing a new approach to bridge the divide between religion and secularism and pave a path toward healing a society torn asunder by extremism.

Author : Selma Stern
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000675262
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Court Jew written by Selma Stern and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period of court absolutism and early capitalism extended from the end of the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. A new world view was created, along with a new type of individual possessing new economic orientations to the marketplace and new social attitudes deriving from such concerns. The unified political and religious world of medieval Europe broke into parts: national differentiation and religious options abounded. The autonomy of the nation-state created a need for new attitudes toward religious minorities, even despised ones such as the Jews. The court Jew phenomenon, as Selma Stern details, was inextricably linked to these larger developments, including the emancipation of Jews as a whole. Dr. Stern's work is an effort to reconstruct this unusual group of Jews who became politically and economically influential and through that mechanism were able to enhance Jewish community life as a whole. In his very existence the court Jew necessarily enlarged, beyond its original meaning, the concept of free expression in European societies.As the dominating idea of defending one church and one emperor collapsed under the weight of the new European system of power balances, a new conception of the Jew developed, one of a transforming agent in economic and political positions. With trade no longer condemned as sinful, collecting interest for loans no longer prohibited, and the merchant no longer compared to a thief, the Jewish money changer and tradesman came to be viewed in a more favorable light. In this new environment, the claims of Christianity remained supreme, but the rights of religious minorities were considered.At the time of the book's initial appearance, the Saturday Review hailed it as a "picturesque work giving evidence of great writing talent." The reviewer went on to note that "Dr. Stern's work provided exhaustive historical background of European Jewry - from 1650 to 1750 - that period during which the modern European genius emerged." Dr. Stern's work relies heavily upon European archives up to 1938, when the advances of Nazism made further work impossible. As a result, what was started in Europe was completed in America.