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The uncovered head : Jewish culture: new perspectives / Yedidya Itzhaki ; translated by Nahum Steigman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Hebrew Publication details: Newark : University of Delaware Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (257 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781611490374
  • 1611490375
  • 1280659874
  • 9781280659874
  • 9786613636805
  • 6613636800
Uniform titles:
  • Be-rosh galui. English
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Uncovered head.DDC classification:
  • 296.09/05 22
LOC classification:
  • BM45 .I89 2011eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Introduction -- Identity -- Secular identity -- Jewish identity -- Moving toward Jewish pluralism -- Judaism and Jewry today -- Secular reading of Jewish culture.
Summary: Surveying the evolution of the Jewish people and its culture and thought throughout the ages, this book describes the momentous results of Jewry's encounter with European Modernism. It traces how, over the last two-and-a-half centuries, pluralism and secularism first took hold in the Jewish world and then expanded until they are now the dominant feature and the driving force in contemporary Judaism. These issues are illuminated with a wide selection of works from the Jewish literature and thought.
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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)465387

"Surveying the evolution of the Jewish people and its culture and thought throughout the ages, this book describes the momentous results of Jewry's encounter with European Modernism. It traces how, over the last two-and-a-half centuries, pluralism and secularism first took hold in the Jewish world and then expanded until they are now the dominant feature and the driving force in contemporary Judaism. These issues are illuminated with a wide selection of works from the Jewish literature and thought"--Data view.

Translated from Hebrew.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-252) and index.

Introduction -- Identity -- Secular identity -- Jewish identity -- Moving toward Jewish pluralism -- Judaism and Jewry today -- Secular reading of Jewish culture.

Surveying the evolution of the Jewish people and its culture and thought throughout the ages, this book describes the momentous results of Jewry's encounter with European Modernism. It traces how, over the last two-and-a-half centuries, pluralism and secularism first took hold in the Jewish world and then expanded until they are now the dominant feature and the driving force in contemporary Judaism. These issues are illuminated with a wide selection of works from the Jewish literature and thought.

English.