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How have modern Jews appropriated traditional aspects of their culture and religion to sustain them in the modern world? Twenty-one distinguished scholars address this question by drawing on a range of disciplines: social and cultural history; ethnography; folklore; sociology; educational theory; and rabbinics. They examine Jewish communities from Russia to North Africa, from Israel to the United States. Among the subjects they explore are Jewish art, holiday practices, feminist ceremonies, adult education, and religious movements in Israel. This text demonstrates the persistance of tradition and the limits to continuity. It asks: how extensively can tradition be reinterpreted before it is subverted? At what point is creative reinvention an act of betrayal? How effectively can selective borrowing from tradition sustain a religious community?
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Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First Edition. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 510 pages; 1993 Jewish Theological Seminary of America. HC/DJ. Snugly bound and neat in glossy pictorial dust jacket. Trace handling evidence to the jacket edges. Contents clean, bright, and unmarked. Some b&w photos. NF/NF. Nº de ref. del artículo: 52941
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Hardbound. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Octavo in dust jacket, xxii, 509 pp., b/w photos, index Articles are "German Jewish Orthodoxy: Tradition in the Context of Culture," David Ellenson, "The Emergence of Ultra-Orthodoxy: The Invention of a Tradition," Michael K. Silber. "Preserving Tradition in the Land of Revolution: The Religious Leadership of Soviet Jewry, 1917-1930," David E. Fishman, "Religious Responses among North African Jews in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries," Harvey E. Goldberg, "The Hazon Ish: Haredi Critic of Traditional Orthodoxy," Lawrence Kaplan., "The Lost Kiddush Cup: Changes in Ashkenazic Haredi CultureA Tradition in Crisis," Menachem Friedman, "Traditionalism and Village Jews in Nineteenth-Century Western and Central Europe: Local Persistence and Urban Nostalgia," Paula E. Hyman, "Self-image through Objects: Toward a Social History of Jewish Art Collecting and Jewish Museums," Richard I. Cohen, "S. Ansky and the Paradigm of Return," David G. Roskies, "Modern Students of Midrash Halakhah: Between Tradition and Wissenschaft," Jay M. Harris, "The Retrieval of Innocence and Tradition: Jewish Spiritual Renewal in an Age of Liberal Individualism," Paul Mendes-Flohr, " 'Merry Chanuka': The Changing Holiday Practices of American Jews, 1880-1950,"Jenna Weissman Joselit, "Reinventing Miriam's Well: Feminist Jewish Ceremonials," Shulamit S. Magnus, "Ritual and Role Transition: Adult Bat Mitzvah as a Successful Rite of Passage," Stuart Schoenfeld, "Midrash and Modernity: Can Midrash Serve a Contemporary Religious Discourse?," Barry W. Holtz, "The Havurah as a Context for Adult Jewish Education," Joseph Reimer, "Tradition, Judaism, and the Jewish Religion in Contemporary Israeli Society," Charles S. Liebman, "Constructing the Usable Past: The Idea of 'Tradition' in Twentieth-Century American Judaism," Arnold M. Eisen, "Tradition and Modernity Reconsidered," Michael A. Meyer, "The Reappropriation of Jewish Tradition in the Modern Era," Charles S. Liebman, "Postmodern or Neo-Medieval Times?" Ivan G. Marcus. Nº de ref. del artículo: 97098
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