The Boundaries of Judaism.

The Boundaries of Judaism.

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 prac...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hartman, Donniel
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2007.
Series:Kogod library of Judaic studies.
Subjects:
Jews > Identity.
Jewish way of life.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Jewish way of life
Jews > Identity
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Modem Problem of ''Who are the Jews?''; 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 Mediaeval Halakhic Writing; Chapter 4 The Hatam Sofer and the Boundaries of Orthodoxy; Chapter 5 Moshe Feinstein and the Boundaries of Orthodoxy; Chapter 6 Towards a Contemporary Theory of Boundaries; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y.

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