Studies in Contemporary Jewry Volume XVII: Who Owns Judaism? Public Religion and Private Faith in America and Israel

by Lederhendler, Eli

• ISBN13: 9780195148022
• ISBN10: 0195148029
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-12-20
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Bringing together contributions from established scholars as well as promising younger academics, the seventeenth volume of this established series offers a broad-ranging view of why Judaism, a religion whose observance is more honored in the breach in most western Jewish communities, hasgarnered attention, authority, and controversy in the late twentieth century. The volume consisders the ways in which theological writings, sweeping social change, individual or small-group needs, and intra-communal diversity have re-energized Judaism even amidst secular trends in America andIsrael.

Table of Contents

Symposium
Who Owns Judaism? Public Religion and Private Faith in America and Israel
Introduction: The ``Problem of Judaism'' Today-Beyond Assimilation and Nationalism	3	(10)
Eli Lederhendler
Who Has the Right to Change Tradition? Evolving Conceptions of Religious Authority and Their Implications for the Jewish People	13	(21)
Ezra Kopelowitz
Modernists vs. Traditionalists: Competition and Legitimacy within American Conservative Judaism	34	(22)
Alan Silverstein
Judaism, Exile, and the State of Israel in Postwar American Jewish Theological Discourse	56	(18)
Shalom Ratzabi
Uzi Meshulam's ``Mishkan Ohalim'': A Contemporary Apocalyptic Messianic Sect in Israel	74	(14)
Motti Inbari
Beyond Wissenschaft: The Resurrection of Resurrection in Jewish Thought Since 1950	88	(13)
Neil Gillman
Religiosity and Ethnicity: Jewish Identity Trends in the United States	101	(30)
Steven M. Cohen
Women's Transformations of Public Judaism: Religiosity, Egalitarianism, and the Symbolic Power of Changing Gender Roles	131	(25)
Sylvia Barack Fishman
Judaism Resurgent? American Jews and the Evolving Expression of Jewish Values and Jewish Identity in Modern American Life	156	(19)
David Ellenson
Frankfurter Among the Anarchists: The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti	175	(20)
Michael Alexander
Review Essays
Asymmetries in America: Recent Work on Jews and Blacks	195	(12)
Stephen J. Whitfield
Sand and Iron	207	(5)
Aharon Klieman
Jews, Intellectuals, and the Dreyfus Affair	212	(7)
Jonathan Judaken
The Decline and Rise of German Antisemitism	219	(1)
Oded Heilbronner
Book Reviews (arranged by subject)
Antisemitism, Holocaust, and Genocide
Zerstorte Nachbarschaften. Christen und Juden in Badischen Landgemeinden	219	(10)
Ulrich Baumann
Oded Heilbronner
The Holocaust and History: The Known, the Unknown, the Disputed and the Reexamined	229
Michael Berenbaum
Abraham Peck
Dan Michman
Katholizismus und Antisemitismus im Deutschen Kaiserreich	219	(13)
Olaf Blaschke
Oded Heilbronner
The Nazis' Last Victims: The Holocaust in Hungary	232	(4)
Randolph L. Braham
Scott Miller
Andras Kovacs
How Silent Were the Churches? Canadian Protestantism and the Jewish Plight during the Nazi Era	236
Alan Davies
Marilyn F. Nefsky
Haim Genizi
Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany	219	(19)
Marion Kaplan
Oded Heilbronner
Studying the Holocaust: Issues, Readings and Documents	238
Ronnie S. Landau
Konrad Kwiet
Die Entwicklung des politischen Antisemitismus in Deutschland Zwischen 1881 und 1912. Eine wahlgeschichtliche Untersuchung	219	(1)
Stefan Scheil
Oded Heilbronner
Antisemitische Kriminalitat und Gewalt. Judenfeindschaft in der Weimarer Republik	219	(21)
Dirk Walter
Oded Heilbronner
Demonizing the Other: Antisemitism, Racism, and Xenophobia	240
Robert S. Wistrich
Gavin Langmuir
Bibliography, Language, Literature, and the Arts
Blacks and Jews in Literary Conversation	195	(49)
Emily Miller Budick
Stephen J. Whitfield
Jewish Icons: Art and Society in Modern Europe	244
Richard I. Cohen
David Biale
Birth of a National Icon: The Literary Avant-Garde and the Origins of the Intellectual in France	212	(34)
Venita Datta
Jonathan Judaken
The Periodical Publications of the Jewish Labour and Revolutionary Movements in Eastern and Southeastern Europe, 1877-1916: An Annotated Bibliography	246	(1)
Avraham Greenbaum
Zachary M. Baker
A History of the Ararat Publishing Society	246
Avraham Greenbaum
Zachary M. Baker
Mutual Reflections: Jews and Blacks in American Art	195	(55)
Milly Heyd
Stephen J. Whitfield
Max Lerner: Pilgrim in the Promised Land	250
Sanford Lakoff
Fred Siegel
A Right to Sing the Blues: African Americans, Jews, and the American Popular Song	195	(1)
Jeffrey Melnick
Stephen J. Whitfield
Facing Black and Jew: Literature as Public Space in Twentieth-Century America	195	(57)
Adam Zachary Newton
Stephen J. Whitfield
In Search of American Jewish Culture	252	(3)
Stephen J. Whitfield
Eli Lederhendler
History and the Social Sciences
Profiles of a Lost World: Memoirs of East European Jewish Life Before World War II	255
Hirsz Abramowicz
Theodore R. Weeks
Strangers and Neighbors: Relations between Blacks and Jews in the United States	195	(61)
Maurianne Adams
John Bracey
Stephen J. Whitfield
Uncertain Travelers: Conversations with Jewish Women Immigrants to America	256
Marjorie Agosin
Ruth Gay
How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says about Race in America	195	(63)
Karen Brodkin
Stephen J. Whitfield
Russia's First Modern Jews: The Jews of Shklov	258
David E. Fishman
Mordechai Zalkin
Nancy L. Grant, Harold M. Kletnick, and Glenna Rae McNeil (eds.), African Americans and Jews in the Twentieth Century: Studies in Convergence and Conflict	195	(66)
V. P. Franklin
Stephen J. Whitfield
The Politics and Public Culture of American Jews	261	(1)
Arthur A. Goren
Hasia R. Diner
Blacks and Jews on the Couch: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Black-Jewish Conflict	262
Alan Helmreich
Paul Marcus
Richard H. King
Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race	195	(17)
Matthew Frye Jacobson
Stephen J. Whitfield
Les intellectuels face a l' affair Dreyfus alors et aujourd'hui	212	(52)
Roselyn Koren
Dan Michman
Jonathan Judaken
The Jews of Hungary: History, Culture, Psychology	264	(2)
Raphael Patai
Shaul Stampfer
Of Moses and Marx: Folk Ideology and Folk History in the Jewish Labor Movement	266
David P. Shuldiner
Jack Jacobs
Durkheim and the Jews of France	212	(56)
Ivan Strenski
Jonathan Judaken
Religion, Thought, and Education
Freud and the Legacy of Moses	268	(3)
Richard J. Bernstein
Maren Niehoff
(God) After Auschwitz: Tradition and Change in Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought	271	(2)
Zachary Braiterman
Michael Berenbaum
Modernity, Culture and ``the Jew''	273	(1)
Bryan Cheyette
Laura Marcus
Sander L. Gilman
The Death of Death: Resurrection and Immortality in Jewish Though	274	(3)
Neil Gillman
Edward K. Kaplan
Science, Jews, and Secular Culture: Studies in Mid-Twentieth Century American Intellectual History	277
David A. Hollinger
Alan Wald
Why Did Freud Reject God? A Psychoanalytic Interpretation	268	(12)
Ana-Maria Rizzuto
Maren Niehoff
Zionism, Israel, and the Middle East
Jehuda Reinharz, and Anita Shapira (eds.), Zionism and Religion	280	(1)
Shmuel Almog
Bernard (Baruch) Susser
The Exodus Affair: Holocaust Survivors and the Struggle for Palestine	281	(3)
Aviva Halamish
Henry Near
Zionism and the Creation of a New Society	284	(2)
Ben Halpern
Jehuda Reinharz
Gabriel Sheffer
The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel's Soul	286
Yoram Hazony
Michael Berenbaum
Empires in the Sand: The Struggle for Mastery in the Middle East, 1789-1923	207	(83)
Efraim Karsh
Inari Karsh
Aharon Klieman
The Israeli Labor Party: In the Shadow of the Likud	290	(1)
Neill Lochery
Gabriel Sheffer
Moshe Sharett: Biography of a Political Moderate	291
Gabriel Sheffer
Ian S. Lustick
The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World	207	(1)
Avi Shlaim
Aharon Klieman
Zionism and the Foundations of Israeli Diplomacy	207	(90)
Sasson Sofer
Aharon Klieman
Contents for Volume XVIII	297	(2)
Note on Editorial Policy	299