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The uses of tradition : Jewish continuity in the modern era / edited by Jack Wertheimer.

Contributor(s): Wertheimer, Jack
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1998Distributor: Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by Harvard University PressCopyright date: ©1992Edition: Paperback editionDescription: xxi, 510 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0674931580 (pbk.); 9780674931589 (pbk.); 0674931572 (cloth); 9780674931572 (cloth)Subject(s): Judaism -- History -- Modern period, 1750- | Judaism -- 20th century | Judaism -- Customs and practices -- History -- 20th century | Orthodox Judaism -- History | Jews -- Cultural assimilation | Jewish way of life | Judaism -- United StatesDDC classification: 296/.09/03 Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
German Jewish Orthodoxy : tradition in the context of culture / David Ellenson -- The emergence of ultra-Orthodoxy : the invention of a tradition / Michael K. Silber -- Preserving tradition in the land of revolution : the religious leadership of Soviet Jewry, 1917-1930 / David E. Fishman -- Religious responses among North African Jews in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Harvey E. Goldberg -- The Ḥazon Ish : Ḥaredi critic of traditional Orthodoxy / Lawrence Kaplan -- The lost Kiddush cup : changes in Ashkenazic Ḥaredi culture : a tradition in crisis / Menachem Friedman -- Traditionalism and village Jews in nineteenth-century Western and Central Europe : local persistence and urban nostalgia / Paula E. Hyman -- Self-image through objects : toward a social history of Jewish art collecting and Jewish museums / Richard I. Cohen -- S. Ansky and the paradigm of return / David G. Roskies -- Modern students of Midrash Halakhah : between tradition and wissenschaft / Jay M. Harris -- The retrieval of innocence and tradition : Jewish spiritual renewal in an age of liberal individualism / Paul Mendes-Flohr -- 'Merry-Chanuka' : the changing holiday practices of American Jews, 1880-1950 / Jenna Weissman Joselit --
Reinventing Miriam's well : feminist Jewish ceremonials / Shulamit S. Magnus -- Ritual and role transition : adult bat mitzvah as a successful rite of passage / Stuart Schoenfeld -- Midrash and modernity : can midrash serve a contemporary religious discourse? / Barry W. Holtz -- The Ḥavurah as a context for adult Jewish education / Joseph Reimer -- Tradition, Judaism, and the Jewish religion in contemporary Israeli society / Charles S. Liebman -- Constructing the usable past : the idea of 'tradition' in twentieth-century American Judaism / Arnold M. Eisen -- Tradition and modernity reconsidered / Michael A. Meyer -- The reappropriation of Jewish tradition in the modern era / Charles S. Liebman -- Postmodern or neo-medieval times? / Ivan G. Marcus.

"Most contribution to this volume were first presented at the Henry N. Rapaport Memorial Conference held in November 1989 at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America."--Acknowledgments.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

German Jewish Orthodoxy : tradition in the context of culture / David Ellenson -- The emergence of ultra-Orthodoxy : the invention of a tradition / Michael K. Silber -- Preserving tradition in the land of revolution : the religious leadership of Soviet Jewry, 1917-1930 / David E. Fishman -- Religious responses among North African Jews in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Harvey E. Goldberg -- The Ḥazon Ish : Ḥaredi critic of traditional Orthodoxy / Lawrence Kaplan -- The lost Kiddush cup : changes in Ashkenazic Ḥaredi culture : a tradition in crisis / Menachem Friedman -- Traditionalism and village Jews in nineteenth-century Western and Central Europe : local persistence and urban nostalgia / Paula E. Hyman -- Self-image through objects : toward a social history of Jewish art collecting and Jewish museums / Richard I. Cohen -- S. Ansky and the paradigm of return / David G. Roskies -- Modern students of Midrash Halakhah : between tradition and wissenschaft / Jay M. Harris -- The retrieval of innocence and tradition : Jewish spiritual renewal in an age of liberal individualism / Paul Mendes-Flohr -- 'Merry-Chanuka' : the changing holiday practices of American Jews, 1880-1950 / Jenna Weissman Joselit --

Reinventing Miriam's well : feminist Jewish ceremonials / Shulamit S. Magnus -- Ritual and role transition : adult bat mitzvah as a successful rite of passage / Stuart Schoenfeld -- Midrash and modernity : can midrash serve a contemporary religious discourse? / Barry W. Holtz -- The Ḥavurah as a context for adult Jewish education / Joseph Reimer -- Tradition, Judaism, and the Jewish religion in contemporary Israeli society / Charles S. Liebman -- Constructing the usable past : the idea of 'tradition' in twentieth-century American Judaism / Arnold M. Eisen -- Tradition and modernity reconsidered / Michael A. Meyer -- The reappropriation of Jewish tradition in the modern era / Charles S. Liebman -- Postmodern or neo-medieval times? / Ivan G. Marcus.

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