566369206  

The boundaries of Judaism / Donniel Hartman

Reprinted

Englisch

London [u.a.] : Continuum, 2008

IX, 193 S.

978-0-8264-9664-5

978-0-8264-9663-8

0-8264-9664-4

0-8264-9663-6

Introduction; Chapter 1: Pluralism, Tolerance and Deviance; Chapter 2: Deviance, Boundaries and Marginalization in Rabbinic Literature; Chapter 3: Intolerable Deviance and its Forms of Marginalization in Medieval Halakhic Writing; Chapter 4: Deviance, Boundaries and Marginalization in the Responsa of the Hatam Sofer; Chapter 5: Deviance, Boundaries and Marginalization in the Responsa of Moshe Feinstein; Chapter 6: Towards a Modern Theory of Boundaries.

*Judentum / Religiöse Identität / Ethnische Identität

*Sofer, Moses -- 1762-1839 ; Feinstein, Moses -- 1895-1986

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: DS143

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 296;

Aiming to take readers beyond the divisions that characterize modern Jewry, this book explores the ever contentious question of "who is a Jew." It provides insights into how Jewish law has erected boundaries to govern and maintain the collective identity of the Jewish people.

The factionalism and denominationalism of modern Jewry makes it supremely difficult to create a definition of the Jewish people. Instead of serving as a uniting force around which community is formed, Judaism has itself become a source of divisions. Consequently, attempts to identify beliefs or practices essential for membership in the Jewish people are almost doomed to failure. Aiming to take readers beyond the divisions that characterize modern Jewry, this book explores the ever contentious question of "who is a Jew."