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Jewish identity in the postmodern age : scholarly and personal reflections / edited by Charles Selengut.

Contributor(s): Selengut, Charles
Material type: TextTextPublisher: St. Paul, Minn. : Paragon House, 1999Edition: First editionDescription: vi, 273 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1557787743 (alk. paper); 1557787751 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Jews -- Identity -- Congresses | Judaism -- 20th century -- CongressesDDC classification: 305.892/4 LOC classification: DS143 | .J457 1999Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Introduction: the dilemmas of Jewish identity / Charles Selengut -- The choosing, not the chosen people / Yudit Kornberg Greenberg -- The Jewish community in America: it is the safest of times and the most dangerous of times / Carol Poll -- A nation which denies its Jewish destiny / Moshe Simon -- Rabbi Abraham I. Kook, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Dr. Isaac Breuer on Jewish identity and the Jewish national revival / Lawrence Kaplan -- The fence and the neighbor: Levinas, Leibowitz and Israel among the nations / Adam Zachary Newton -- Women and feminism: a major role in molding Jewish identity / Livia Bitton-Jackson -- Jewish identity and the teaching of chosenness / Joshua Golding -- Liberal politics and American Jewish identity / Edward Shapiro -- Worshipping mamon: the pursuit of affluence and the assimilation of modern orthodox Jewry / Joseph A. Rapaport -- Deomcracy, nationalism and religion: are we witnessing the death of classical religious Zionism? / Gilbert N. Kahn -- Reflections on identity and memory / Richard L. Rubenstein -- Yachas Cham and my search for Jewish wholeness / Walter Ruby -- From Rogers to Rubenstein / Betty Rogers Rubenstein -- The predicament of the postmodern American Jew / Tzvee Zahavy -- The state of Anglo-Jewry: an international perspective / Elkan D. Levy -- Jewish survival: operation educate / Douglas M. Bloomfield.

"A new ERA book"--Spine.

"The essays gathered in this volume were first prepared in conjunction with a conference on the theme 'Contemporary reflections on Jewish identity' sponsored by the Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace in Ariel, Israel"--Introduction.

Introduction: the dilemmas of Jewish identity / Charles Selengut -- The choosing, not the chosen people / Yudit Kornberg Greenberg -- The Jewish community in America: it is the safest of times and the most dangerous of times / Carol Poll -- A nation which denies its Jewish destiny / Moshe Simon -- Rabbi Abraham I. Kook, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Dr. Isaac Breuer on Jewish identity and the Jewish national revival / Lawrence Kaplan -- The fence and the neighbor: Levinas, Leibowitz and Israel among the nations / Adam Zachary Newton -- Women and feminism: a major role in molding Jewish identity / Livia Bitton-Jackson -- Jewish identity and the teaching of chosenness / Joshua Golding -- Liberal politics and American Jewish identity / Edward Shapiro -- Worshipping mamon: the pursuit of affluence and the assimilation of modern orthodox Jewry / Joseph A. Rapaport -- Deomcracy, nationalism and religion: are we witnessing the death of classical religious Zionism? / Gilbert N. Kahn -- Reflections on identity and memory / Richard L. Rubenstein -- Yachas Cham and my search for Jewish wholeness / Walter Ruby -- From Rogers to Rubenstein / Betty Rogers Rubenstein -- The predicament of the postmodern American Jew / Tzvee Zahavy -- The state of Anglo-Jewry: an international perspective / Elkan D. Levy -- Jewish survival: operation educate / Douglas M. Bloomfield.

Includes bibliographical references.

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