One People?: Tradition, Modernity, and Jewish UnityOne People? is a full-lenth study of the major problem confronting the Jewish future: the availability or otherwise of a way of mending the schisms between Reform and Orthodox Judaism, between religious and secular Jews in Israel and between Israel itself and the diaspora - all of which have been deepended by the continuing controversy over the question 'who is a Jew?'. This text is a study of the background to this and related controversies. It traces the fragmentation of Jewry in the wake of emancipation and enlightenment, the development of heterodox religious denominations and secular Zionism, the variety of Orthodox responses to these challenges and the resources of Jewish tradition for handling diversity. It sets out the intractability of the problem and ends by examining strands in both Orthodox Jewish thought that might make for convergence and conciliation. The analysis employs a variety of disciplines - history, sociology, theology and halakhic jurisprudence - to comment on a subject in which these dimensions are inextricably interwoven. It also explores key issues such as the underlying philosophy of Jewish law and the nature of the collision between tradition and modern consciousness in the clash of perceptions between Orthodox and Reform. Written for general readers as well as the academic, this book aims to present a thought-provoking presentation of the dilemmas of Jewish Orthodoxy in modernity. |
Contents
The Birth of the Adjectival Jew | 18 |
Orthodoxy History and Culture | 44 |
Orthodoxy and Jewish Peoplehood | 65 |
Copyright | |
7 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abraham accept aggadah argued argument assimilation become belief Berger biblical Christianity command concept conflict consciousness contemporary Jewish context conversion covenant covenantal da'at torah denomination derekh eretz diaspora divine emancipation ethics exile Fackenheim faith fundamental German halakhah halakhic halakhic authority halakhic system Hasidic Hirschensohn Holocaust Ibid idea ideologies inclusivism inclusivist individual integrity interpretation Irving Greenberg Isaac Jacob Jerusalem Jewish community Jewish history Jewish identity Jewish law Jewish peoplehood Jewish thought Jewish unity Jewish world Jewry Jonathan Sacks Joseph Soloveitchik keneset yisrael language less liberal Jew liberal Judaism Liebman Maimonides messianic Mishnah modern Moses Sofer movement Nachmanides nation nineteenth century non-Orthodox norm Orthodoxy pluralism pluralist political possible principle question rabbinic Judaism Reform Jews religion religious response Rosenzweig ruling Sabbath sages Samson Raphael Hirsch Sanh secular culture sense social society Soloveitchik survival synagogue talmudic talmudic tractate theology thinkers tion Torah torah im derekh tradition University Press yeshiva York