ISBN:
9780881236095
,
0881236098
Language:
English
Pages:
340 pages
,
23 cm
Year of publication:
2023
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Re-forming Judaism
DDC:
296.09
Keywords:
Jews History
;
Judaism History
;
Jewish philosophy History
;
Judaism Essence, genius, nature
;
Reform Judaism Essence, genius, nature
;
Jews History
;
Philosophy
;
Judaïsme - Histoire
;
Philosophie juive - Histoire
;
Judaïsme - Essence, esprit, nature
;
Judaïsme réformé - États-Unis - Essence, esprit, nature
;
Juifs - Histoire
;
Jewish philosophy
;
Judaism
;
Judaism - Essence, genius, nature
;
History
;
United States
Abstract:
"Throughout Jewish history, revolutionary events and subversive ideas have burst onto the scene, transforming everything in their path. Re-forming Judaism seeks to explore these ideas-and the individuals behind them-by delving into historical disruptions that led to lasting change in Jewish thought"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: Thinking about Continuity and Disruption / Rabbi Stanley M. Davids -- The Disruptive Prophets: Linking Action and Intention / Kristine Henriksen Garroway, PhD -- 586 bce: Defeat and the Emergence of Jewish Peoplehood / Jacob L. Wright, PHd -- Christianity: A Pauline Revolution / Rabbi Joshua D. Garroway, PhD -- Persecution, Martyrdom, and Divine Justice: How the Afterlife Came to Be / Rabbi Candice Levy, PhD -- They Are Israel: Nonbinary Gender Then and Now / Gwynn Kessler, PhD -- The Radical Rationalist: Maimonides Reshapes Rabbinic Discourse / Tamar Ron Marvin, PhD -- The Zohar Transformation: A New Understanding of Torah, God, and Humanity / Rabbi Lawrence A. Englander -- Sabbatianism: Convulsions and Creativity / Rabbi Stanley M. Davids -- Jewish Thought in the North African Sephardic Diaspora: A Hidden Transformation / Michal Ohana, PhD -- Haskalah in Berlin: Moses Mendelssohn, Immanuel Kant, and the Foundations of Reform Judaism / Yoav Schaefer -- Breaking the Chain: The Radical Thought of Rabbi Samuel Holdheim / Michael A. Meyer, PhD -- Sephardism and Modernity: Jewish Communities in Flux / Rabbi Marc D. Angel, PhD -- The Pittsburgh Platform of 1885: The American Reform Rabbis' Declaration of Independence / Rabbi Kari Tuling, PhD -- Power, Pragmatism, and Peoplehood: Mordecai Kaplan's Radical American Judaism / Rabbi Michael Marmur, PhD -- The Breakup: Rethinking American Jewish Literary History / Adam Rovner, PhD -- Liturgy as an Instrument of Intellectual Change: Between Comfort and Disruption / Rabbi Sonja K. Pilz, PhD -- Reform Jewry Sings a New Song: Disruptions and Innovations / Cantor Evan Kent, DMA -- The Gender Revolution: Disruptions of Jewish Feminism / Rabbi Elyse Goldstein -- Moving Beyond Post-Holocaust Theology: Critical Theory as a New Paradigm / Rabbi Jason Rodich -- Holocaust Testimony: Listening, Humanizing, and Sacralizing / Stephen D. Smith, PhD -- Inclusive Judaism: A Vision for the Future / Rabbi Nora Feinstein -- Afterword / Leah Hochman,
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