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Jewish meaning in a world of choice : studies in tradition and modernity /

"Internationally recognized scholar David Ellenson shares twenty-three of his most representative essays, drawing on three decades of scholarship and demonstrating the consistency of the intellectual-religious interests that have animated him throughout his lifetime. These essays center on a de...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ellenson, David Harry, 1947- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : Philadelphia : University of Nebraska Press ; Jewish Publication Society, [2014]
Colección:JPS scholar of distinction series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1: Shaping Jewish life in an open society
  • A response by Modern Orthodoxy to Jewish religious pluralism: The case of Esriel Hildesheimer
  • German Orthodox Rabbinical writings on the Jewish textual education of Women: The views of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch and Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer
  • Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch to Lipman Phillip Prins of Amsterdam: An 1873 Responsum on education
  • An ideology for the liberal Jewish Day School: A philosophical -sociological investigation
  • Denominationalism: History and hopes
  • Integrity of reform within Kelal Yisra-el
  • Part 2: Searching for a balanced theology
  • A theology of fear: The search for a Liberal Jewish Paradigm
  • Eugene B. Borowitz: A tribute on the occasion of his 70th birthday
  • Heschel and the roots of Kavanah: Responsibility and Kavanah in postwar America
  • Rabbi Hayim David Halevia on Christians and Christianity: An analysis of selected legal writings of an Israeli authority
  • Interreligious learning and the formation of Jewish religious identity
  • A Zionist reading of Abraham Geiger and His Biblical sholarship
  • National sovereignty, Jewish identity, and the "Sake of Heaven": the impact of residence in Israel on Halakhic Rulings on conversion
  • The Talmudic Principle "If one comes forth to slay you, Forestall by slaying him" in Israeli Public Policy: A responsum by Rabbi Hayim David Halevi
  • The Rock from which they were cleft: A review-essay on Haim Amsalem's Zera Yisrael and Mekor Yisrael
  • Moshe Zemer's Halakhan Shefuya: An Israeli vision of reform and Halakhah
  • Reform Zionism today: A consideration of first principles
  • Part 4: Rabbis and the Rabbinate: Lezakot et Harabim
  • Wissenschaft des Judentums, historical consciousness, and Jewish Faith: The diverse paths of Frankel, Auerback, and Halevy
  • "Creative misreadings" in representative post-emancipation Halakhic writings on conversion and intermarriage
  • A portrait of the Poseq as modern religious leader: An analysis of selected writings of Rabbi Hayim david Halevi
  • Rabbi Eliezer Berkovits on conversion: An inclusive Orthodox approach
  • Transformation of the Rabbinate: Future directions and prospects.