Religion or ethnicity? : Jewish identities in evolution / edited by Zvi Gitelman.

Other author Gitelman, Zvi Y.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2009.
Descriptionviii, 328 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects
Jews--Identity.
Jews--Civilization.
Humanistic Judaism.
Judaism and secularism.
Jews--Israel. --Identity.
Secularism--Israel.

Contents Jewish religion, Jewish ethnicity: the evolution of Jewish identities / Zvi Gitelman -- Secularism, hellenism, and rabbis in antiquity / Yaron Eliav -- What is a Judaism?: perspectives from Second Temple Jewish studies / Gabriele Boccaccini -- Crypto-Jewish criticism of tradition and its echoes in Jewish communities / Miriam Bodian -- Spinoza and the origins of Jewish secularism / Steven Nadler -- Yiddish schools in America and the problem of secular Jewish identity / David Fishman -- Beyond assimilation: introducing subjectivity to German-Jewish history / Scott Spector -- Jewish self-identification and West European categories of belonging from the Enlightenment to World War II / Todd Endelman -- People of the (secular) book: literary anthologies and the making of Jewish identity in postwar America / Julian Levinson -- Secular-Jewish identity and the condition of secular Judaism in Israel / Charles Liebman and Yaacov Yadgar -- Beyond the religious-secular dichotomy: masortim in Israel / Charles Liebman and Yaacov Yadgar -- What kind of Jewish state do Israelis want?: the nature and determinants of Israeli attitudes toward secularism and some comparisons with Arab attitudes toward the relationship between religion and politics / Mark Tessler -- The construction of 'secular' and 'religious' in modern Hebrew literature / Shachar Pinsker -- Jewish identity and secularism in post-Soviet Russia and Ukraine / Zvi Gitelman -- Judaism, community, and Jewish culture in American life: continuities and transformations / Calvin Goldscheider -- Beyond apikorsut: a Judaism for secular Jews / Adam Chalom -- The nature and viability of Jewish religious and secular identities / Zvi Gitelman.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2008016701
ISBN9780813544502 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0813544505 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9780813544519 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0813544513 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks DS143 .R374 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold