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American Jewish Thought Since 1934
Writings on Identity, Engagement, and Belief
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American Jewish Thought Since 1934
Writings on Identity, Engagement, and Belief
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What is the role of Judaism and Jewish existence in America? And what role does America play in matters Jewish? This anthology considers these questions and offers a look at how the diverse body of Jewish thought developed within the historical and intellectual context of America.
In this volume, editors Michael Marmur and David Ellenson bring together the distinctive voices of those who have shaped the bold and shifting soundscape of American Jewish thought over the last few generations. The contributors tackle an array of topics including theological questions; loyalty and belonging; the significance of halakhic, spiritual, and ritual practice; secularization and its discontents; and the creative recasting of Jewish peoplehood. The editors are careful to point out how a plurality of approaches emerged in response to the fundamental ruptures and challenges of continuity posed by the Holocaust, the establishment of the state of Israel, and the civil rights movement in the twentieth century.
This volume also includes a wide swath of the most distinctive currents and movements over the last eighty years: post-Holocaust theology, secular forms of Jewish spirituality, ultra-orthodoxy, American neo-orthodoxy, neo-Hasidism, feminism and queer theory, diasporist critiques of Zionism, and Zionist militancy. This collection will serve as both a testament to the creativity of American Jewish thought so far, and as an inspiration for the new thinkers of its still unwritten future.
In this volume, editors Michael Marmur and David Ellenson bring together the distinctive voices of those who have shaped the bold and shifting soundscape of American Jewish thought over the last few generations. The contributors tackle an array of topics including theological questions; loyalty and belonging; the significance of halakhic, spiritual, and ritual practice; secularization and its discontents; and the creative recasting of Jewish peoplehood. The editors are careful to point out how a plurality of approaches emerged in response to the fundamental ruptures and challenges of continuity posed by the Holocaust, the establishment of the state of Israel, and the civil rights movement in the twentieth century.
This volume also includes a wide swath of the most distinctive currents and movements over the last eighty years: post-Holocaust theology, secular forms of Jewish spirituality, ultra-orthodoxy, American neo-orthodoxy, neo-Hasidism, feminism and queer theory, diasporist critiques of Zionism, and Zionist militancy. This collection will serve as both a testament to the creativity of American Jewish thought so far, and as an inspiration for the new thinkers of its still unwritten future.
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Index
Aaron, David, 301
abduction, 132
Abraham, 71–72, 223, 276–77
absence of God, 18–20
absolutism, 151–52, 219
abstraction, 82–83, 136
abuses of society, 223
abusing God, 183–84
accumulating revelation, 62–63, 65
Ackerman, Ari, 303
Adam Kadmon, 109–10
Adler, Rachel, xxiv, 213
African Diasporic Jews, 295–96
agency, 1, 34, 68, 83
agunah, 221, 222n12
Albanese, Catherine, 87n9
alef, 103–5
Aleph Kallah, 92–93
alienation, 69
Alitzer, Thomas J. J., 18n10, 19n13
Alpert, Rebecca, 30n23, 36–38
alternity, 80
Anielewicz, Mordecai, 177–78
Anshei Knesset HaGedolah, 107
An-sky, S., 195
antinomianism, 70, 76
anti-Semitism, 158, 209–11
anti-Zionism, 191, 209
Antler, Joyce, 213n1
Appiah, K. Anthony, 154
Aquinas, Thomas, 45
Arabs, 178–79, 180–81, 186–87, 192–95, 197–99
‘Arama, R. Isaac, 135
Arendt, Hannah, 147–49, 191
Aristotle, 23
Artson, Bradley Shavit, 301
Ashkenazic Jewry, 280, 292–94
Ashton, Dianne, 86, 303
atheism, 23n18, 37, 49
Athens, Greece, 142–44
authenticity, 31, 78, 86, 177, 236
authoritarian structure, 21
autochthony, 203
autonomism, 265n9
autonomy, 63, 66, 69, 70–74, 75–77, 116, 187
avodah, 109
Azikri, Eleazar, 244n26
Baeck, Leo, xxiv
bamot, 107
Barash, Jeffrey Andrew, 179n6
Barth, Karl, xx
Bat Kol, 110–11
Batnitzky, Leora, xxixn16
Baum, Charlotte, 213
Be’chol Lashon (In Every Tongue), 296
Begin, Menachem, 193
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I | God
- II | Revelation and Commandment
- III | Spirituality
- IV | Hermeneutics and Politics
- V | The Holocaust and Israel
- VI | Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality
- VII | Peoplehood
- Further Reading
- Index