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Modern Judaism : an Oxford guide / edited by Nicholas de Lange [and] Miri Freud-Kandel.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 459 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781429460194
  • 1429460199
  • 0191532320
  • 9780191532320
  • 9780199262878
  • 019926287X
  • 128134625X
  • 9781281346254
  • 9786611346256
  • 6611346252
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Modern Judaism.DDC classification:
  • 296/.09/03 22
LOC classification:
  • BM42 .M63 2005eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
Online resources:
Contents:
Demographic issues / Uzi Rebhun -- Enlightenment and emancipation / Lois C. Dubin -- Persecution / Robert Jan van Pelt -- A national home / Emanuele Ottolenghi -- Post-Zionism / Emanuele Ottolenghi -- Modernist movements / Miri Freud-Kandel -- Traditionalist strands / Eliezer Don-Yehiya -- Humanistic and secular Judaisms / Yaakov Malkin -- Jewish renewal / George R. Wilkes -- American Jewry / Chaim I. Waxman -- Israeli Jewry / Eran Kaplan -- French Jewry / Paula E. Hyman -- British Jewry / Miri Freud-Kandel -- Jewry in the former Soviet Union / John Klier -- Social issues: survey / Harvey E. Goldberg -- Jewish identities / Ezra Kopelowitz -- Fundamentalism / Nurit Stadler -- Prayer and worship / Ruth Langer -- he authority of texts / Nicholas de Lange -- The future of Jewish practice / Jeremy Wanderer -- Theological issues: survey / Norbert M. Samuelson -- Revelation / David Novak -- Covenant / Peter Ochs -- Philosophical issues: survey / Kenneth Seeskin -- The problems of evil / Daniel Rynhold -- Jewish ethics in a modern world / Michael Zank -- Halakhic issues: survey / Jonathan Cohen -- Halakhah and Israel / Daniel Sinclair -- Contemporary issues in halakhah / Steven H. Resnicoff -- Gender issues: survey / Susannah Heschel -- The changing role of the woman / Judith R. Baskin -- Sexuality / Mark Solomon -- As others see Jews / Elliot Horowitz -- Jewish-Christian relations / Margie Tolstoy -- Jewish-Muslim relations / Reuven Firestone.
Summary: "A multi-disciplinary, multi-authored guide to Jewish life and thought. This book covers the major areas of thought in 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"--Provided by publisher
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)186607

"A multi-disciplinary, multi-authored guide to Jewish life and thought. This book covers the major areas of thought in 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"--Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Demographic issues / Uzi Rebhun -- Enlightenment and emancipation / Lois C. Dubin -- Persecution / Robert Jan van Pelt -- A national home / Emanuele Ottolenghi -- Post-Zionism / Emanuele Ottolenghi -- Modernist movements / Miri Freud-Kandel -- Traditionalist strands / Eliezer Don-Yehiya -- Humanistic and secular Judaisms / Yaakov Malkin -- Jewish renewal / George R. Wilkes -- American Jewry / Chaim I. Waxman -- Israeli Jewry / Eran Kaplan -- French Jewry / Paula E. Hyman -- British Jewry / Miri Freud-Kandel -- Jewry in the former Soviet Union / John Klier -- Social issues: survey / Harvey E. Goldberg -- Jewish identities / Ezra Kopelowitz -- Fundamentalism / Nurit Stadler -- Prayer and worship / Ruth Langer -- he authority of texts / Nicholas de Lange -- The future of Jewish practice / Jeremy Wanderer -- Theological issues: survey / Norbert M. Samuelson -- Revelation / David Novak -- Covenant / Peter Ochs -- Philosophical issues: survey / Kenneth Seeskin -- The problems of evil / Daniel Rynhold -- Jewish ethics in a modern world / Michael Zank -- Halakhic issues: survey / Jonathan Cohen -- Halakhah and Israel / Daniel Sinclair -- Contemporary issues in halakhah / Steven H. Resnicoff -- Gender issues: survey / Susannah Heschel -- The changing role of the woman / Judith R. Baskin -- Sexuality / Mark Solomon -- As others see Jews / Elliot Horowitz -- Jewish-Christian relations / Margie Tolstoy -- Jewish-Muslim relations / Reuven Firestone.

Print version record.

English.