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Modern Judaism
An Oxford Guide

Edited by Nicolas de Lange and Miri Freud-Kandel

Price: £26.00 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-926287-8
Publication date: 20 January 2005
472 pages, 246x189 mm

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A comprehensive, multi-disciplinary volume of newly-commissioned chapters that will serve as a main course text for the study of Modern/Contemporary Judaism
Includes surveys of current thought in central areas of Modern Jewish Studies, alongside focused chapters on key areas
Includes a section on Area Studies which highlights the geographical, political and cultural diversity that is a prominent feature of Judaism today and examines the distinctive features of some of the most populous regions of the Jewish world

A comprehensive, multi-disciplinary, multi-authored guide to contemporary Jewish life and thought, focusing on social, cultural and historical aspects of Judaism alongside theological issues. This volume includes 38 newly-commissioned essays, including contributions from leading specialists in their fields. This book covers the major areas of thought in contemporary Jewish Studies, including considerations of religious differences, sociological, philosophical, and gender issues, geographical diversity, inter-faith relations, and the impact of the Shoah (the Holocaust) and the modern state of Israel.

Readership: Suitable for all undergraduate students studying Modern Judaism. Also for the general reader looking for a comprehensive guide to Modern Judaism.

Contents

1. General Introduction , The Editors

2. Demographic Issues , Uzi Rebhun

Part One. Historical Issues

3. Enlightenment and Emancipation , Lois Dubin

4. Persecution , Robert van Pelt

5. A National Home , Emmanuele Ottolenghi

Part Two. Issues of Religion and Modernity

6. Modernist Movements , Miri Freud-Kandel

7. Traditional Strands , Eliezer Don-Yehiya

8. Humanist and Secular Judaisms , Yaakov Malkin

Part Three. Local Issues

9. American Jewry , Chaim I. Waxman

10. Israeli Jewry , Eran Kaplan

11. French Jewry , Paula Hyman

12. British Jewry , Miri Freud-Kandel

13. Jewry in the Former Soviet Union , John Klier

Part Four. Social Issues

14. Survey , Harvey Goldberg

15. Jewish Identity , Steven M. Cohen

16. Fundamentalism , Nurit Stadler

Part Five. Religious Issues

17. Survey , Harvey Goldberg

18. Prayer and Worship , Ruth Langer

19. Authority of Texts , Nicholas de Lange

20. The Future of Jewish Observance , Jeremy Wanderer

Part Six. Theological Issues

21. Survey , Norbert M. Samuelson

22. Revelation , David Novak

23. Covenant , Peter Ochs

Part Seven. Philosophical Issues

24. Survey , Kenneth Seeskin

25. The Problem of Evil , Daniel Rynhold

26. Jewish Ethics in a Modern World , Michael Zank

Part Eight. Halakhic Issues

27. Survey , Jonathan Cohen

28. Halakhah and Israel , Daniel Sinclair

29. Contemporary Issues in Halakhah , Steven H. Resnicoff

Part Nine. Gender Issues

30. Survey , Susannah Heschel

31. The Changing Role of Woman , Judith Baskin

32. Models of Jewish Manhood , Daniel Boyarin

Part Ten. Judaism and the Other

33. As Others See Jews , Elliot Horowitz

34. Jewish-Christian Relations , M. M. Tolstoy

35. Jewish-Muslim Relations , Reuven Firestone

Part Eleven. Emerging Issues

36. Post-Zionism , Emmanuele Ottolenghi

37. Sexuality , Steven Greenberg

Authors, editors, and contributors

Edited by Nicolas de Lange, Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge University and
Miri Freud-Kandel, Lecturer in Modern Judaism, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Oxford University

Links to web resources and related information

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Non-Christian religions
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Modern JudaismAn Oxford Guide

Modern Judaism
An Oxford Guide