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Author Michael, Meyer A.

Title Between Jewish tradition and modernity : rethinking an old opposition / Edited by Michael A. Meyer and David N. Myers.

Publication Info. Detroit, MI : Wayne State University Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (pages cm)
Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Contents part 1 LAW -- 1. Caring for an Intermarried Jew by Converting His Partner: Rabbi Uzziel's Earliest Responsum on Giyur (Salonica, c. 1922) / Zvi Zohar -- 2. Gaining Moral Guidance from the Jewish Tradition: Four Examples to Test David Ellenson's Approach and Mine / Elliot N. Dorff -- 3. The Role of Reform in Israeli Orthodoxy / Adam S. Ferziger -- 4. Between "West Point Standards" and Life in the Trenches: The Halakhic Dilemmas of Orthodox Outreach Workers / Jack Wertheimer -- 5. The Touro Monument Controversy: Aniconism vs. Anti-Idolatry in a Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Jewish Religious Dispute / Jonathan D. Sarna -- pt. 2 RITUAL -- 6. Reverse Engineering the Twentieth-Century Bar/Bat Mitzvah / Isa Aron -- 7. "And It Not Be Stilled": The Legacy of Debbie Friedman / Deborah E. Lipstadt -- 8. From the Rhine Valley to Jezreel Valley: Innovative Versions of the Mourners' Kaddish in the Kibbutz Movement / Dalia Marx -- 9. New Waters in an Old Vessel: A History of Mikveh in Modern Judaism / Michael A. Meyer -- 10. German Jewry and Dutch Jewry: Two Separate Paths to Modernity / Steven M. Lowenstein -- pt. 3 THOUGHT -- 11. Zionism, American Jewry, and the "Negation of Diaspora" / Arnold Eisen -- 12. Traditional Exemplars in a Time of Crisis / Michael Marmur -- 13. Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Rav J. B. Soloveitchik's Perspective on Gender / Rachel Adler -- 14. The Tendency of Stories and the Ethics of Life's Endings / William Cutter -- 15. Thoughts on Forgiveness in Psychoanalysis and Judaism / Lewis M. Barth -- pt. 4 CULTURE -- 16. Ethnicity, Religion, and Spirituality in Postwar Jewish America / Lawrence A. Hoffman -- 17. Complicating a Jewish Modernity: The Jewish Theological Seminary, Columbia University, and the Rise of a Jewish Counterculture in 1968 / Riv-Ellen Prell -- 18. Reform Rabbis, Betty Friedan, and the Uses of "Tradition" / Carole B. Balin -- 19. On Memento: Remaking Memory from the Outside In / Wendy Zierler -- 20. At the Centenary of Agnon's "Ve-hayah he'akov le-mishor": A New Reading / Arnold J. Band.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Judaism and secularism.
Judaism -- 21st century.
Orthodox Judaism -- Relations -- Nontraditional Jews.
Judaism -- History -- Modern period, 1750-
Jews -- Identity.
RELIGION / Judaism / General.
Interfaith relations. (OCoLC)fst01353343
Jews -- Identity. (OCoLC)fst00983278
Judaism. (OCoLC)fst00984280
Judaism and secularism. (OCoLC)fst01745113
Judaism -- Modern period. (OCoLC)fst01907048
Nontraditional Jews. (OCoLC)fst01937527
Orthodox Judaism. (OCoLC)fst01048493
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Project Muse.
Other Form: Print version: 9780814338599 0814338593 (OCoLC)870987721
ISBN 9780814338605 (electronic bk.)
0814338607 (electronic bk.)
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