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After emancipation : Jewish religious responses to modernity /
Twenty three essays which are grouped into five sections. In the first, Ellenson reflects among other things upon the expression of Jewish values and Jewish identity in contemporary America. In the second section, he indicates how Jewish religious leaders in nineteenth century Europe labored to demo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cincinnati :
Hebrew Union College Press,
©2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Reflections on modernity: Judaism resurgent? : American Jews and the evolving expression of Jewish values and Jewish identity ; Jacob Katz on the origins and dimensions of Jewish modernity ; Max Weber on Judaism and the Jews
- The challenge of emancipation: Emancipation and the directions of modern Judaism : the lessons of Melitz Yosher ; A disputed precedent : the Prague Organ in nineteenth-century central European legal literature and polemics ; Samuel Holdheim and Zacharias Frankel on the legal character of Jewish marriage ; Traditional reactions of modern Jewish reform : the paradigm of German Orthodoxy ; The Rabbiner-Seminar Codicil : an instrument of boundary maintenance
- Denominationa responses: The Israelitische Gebetbücher of Abraham Geiger and Manuel Joël ; The prayers for rain in the Siddurim of Abraham Geiger and Isaac Mayer Wise ; German Jewish Orthodoxy : tradition in the context of culture ; Gemeindeorthodoxie in Weimar, Germany : the approaches of Nehemiah Anton Nobel and Isak Unna ; The curriculum of the Jewish Theological Seminary in historical and comparative perspective : a prism on the emergence of American Jewish religious denominationalism
- Modern responsa: Women and the study of Torah : a responsum by Rabbi Zalman Sorotzkin of Jerusalem ; Gender, Halakhah, and women's suffrage : responsa of the first three chief rabbis on the public role of women in the Jewish state ; Parallel worlds : Wissenschaft and Psak in the Seridei Eish ; A Jewish legal authority addresses Jewish-Christian dialogue : two responsa of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein ; Jewish legal interpretation and moral values : two responsa by Rabbi Ḥayim David Halevi on the obligations of the Israeli government towards its minority population ; Interpretive fluidity and Psak in a case of Pidyon Shevuyim : an analysis of a modern Israeli responsum as illuminated by the thought of David Hartman ; Artificial fertilization and procreative autonomy : two contemporary responsa
- New initiatives, new directions: A new rite from Israel : reflections on Siddur Vaʼani Tefillati of the Masorti (Conservative) Movement ; David Hartman on Judaism and the modern condition ; Marcia Falk's The book of blessings : the issue is theological.