After emanicipation : Jewish religious responses to modernity / David Ellenson.

Author/creator Ellenson, David Harry
Format Book
Publication InfoCincinnati : Hebrew Union College Press, ©2004.
Description547 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Judaism resurgent? American Jews and the evolving expression of Jewish values and Jewish identity -- Jacob Katz on the origins and dimensions of Jewish modernity: the centrality of the German experience -- Max Weber on Judaism and the Jews: a reflection on the position of Jews in the modern world -- Emancipation and the directions of modern Judaism: the lessons of Melitz Yosher -- A disputed precedent: the Prague Organ in nineteenth-century central European legal literature and polemics -- Samuel Holdheim and Zacharias Frankel on the legal character of Jewish marriage: an overlooked debate in nineteenth-century liberal Judaism -- Traditional reactions of modern Jewish reform: the paradigm of German Orthodoxy -- The Rabbiner-Seminar Codicil: an instrument of boundary maintenance -- The Israelitische Gebetbücher of Abraham Geiger and Manuel Joël: a study in nineteenth-century German-Jewish communal liturgy and religion -- The prayers for rain in the Siddurim of Abraham Geiger and Isaac Mayer Wise: an exploration into the relationship between Reform Jewish thought and liturgical practice -- German Jewish Orthodoxy: tradition in the context of culture -- Gemeindeorthodoxie in Weimar, Germany: the approaches of Nehemiah Anton Nobel and Isak Unna -- The curriculum of the Jewish Theological Seminary in historical and comparative perspective: a prism on the emergence of American Jewish religious denominationalism -- Women and the study of Torah: a responsum by Rabbi Zalman Sorotzkin of Jerusalem -- Gender, Halakhah, and women's suffrage: responsa of the first three chief rabbis on the public role of women in the Jewish state -- Parallel worlds: Wissenschaft and Psak in the Seridei Eish -- A Jewish legal authority addresses Jewish-Christian dialogue: two responsa of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein -- Jewish legal interpretation and moral values: two responsa by Rabbi Ḥayim David Halevi on the obligations of the Israeli government towards its minority population -- Interpretive fluidity and Psak in a case of Pidyon Shevuyim: an analysis of a modern Israeli responsum as illuminated by the thought of David Hartman -- Artificial fertilization and procreative autonomy: two contemporary responsa -- A new rite from Israel: reflections on Siddur Vaʼani Tefillati of the Masorti (Conservative) Movement -- David Hartman on Judaism and the modern condition: a review essay of A heart of many rooms, and Israelis and the Jewish Tradition -- Marcia Falk's The book of blessings: the issue is theological.
General noteIncludes index.
LCCN 2004047372
ISBN0878202234 (alk. paper)

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