Jewish identities : Fifty intellectuals answer Ben Gurion.

By: Ben-Rafael, EMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Leiden : BRILL, 2002Copyright date: ©2002Description: 1 online resource (421 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789047401452Subject(s): Ben-Gurion, David, -- 1886-1973 | Jews -- Identity | Jews -- Israel -- IdentityGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Jewish identities : Fifty intellectuals answer Ben GurionDDC classification: 305.892/4 LOC classification: DS143 -- .B46513 2002ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Preface -- PART ONE: WHAT IS A JEW? -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE: ENTERING THE MODERN ERA -- The Decline of a Caste -- Orthodoxy as Conservative Change -- Non-Orthodox Judaism -- The Enlightenment in Eastern Europe -- Zionism and the Bund -- The Space of Identities -- CHAPTER TWO: BEN-GURION'S CORRESPONDENTS -- A Phoenix Generation -- Three Syndromes -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER THREE: ISRAELI-JEWISH IDENTITIES -- Introduction -- Revolution, Unity, and Elitism -- The Role of Religion -- Ethnic Divides -- Ideological Controversies -- Confictual Multiculturalism -- CHAPTER FOUR: JEWISH IDENTITIES IN THE DIASPORA-THE CASE OF AMERICA -- Social Achievements and Demographic Risks -- A Religion of Congregations -- The Future at Issue -- Cultural Ethnicity -- CHAPTER FIVE: DIVERGENCE AND CONVERGENCE OF JEWISH IDENTITIES -- Beyond Traditional Identity -- After Migration, the Holocaust, and Establishment of the State -- At the Dawn of the 21st Century -- "Family Resemblance" and Tensions -- PART TWO: WHO IS A JEW? -- Preamble -- HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION -- The Starting Point -- The Ger before the Destruction of the First Temple -- From Ezra and Nehemiah to the End of the Second Temple Period -- Conversion as Entrance into Abraham's Covenant -- BEN-GURION'S QUERY -- THE LETTERS OF THE SAGES -- 1. Shmuel Yossef Agnon -- 2. Alexander Altmann -- 3. Henry Baruk -- 4. Shmuel Hugo Bergmann -- 5. Isaiah Berlin -- 6. Yehuda Bourla -- 7. Haim Hermann Cohn -- 8. Louis Eliezer Halevi Finkelstein -- 9. Felix Frankfurter -- 10. Solomon B. Freehof -- 11. Shlomo Goren -- 12. Aryeh Leib Grossnass, Meir Lew, Abraham Rappoport, Meir Halevy Steinberg and Morris Swift -- 13. Zecharya Hacohen -- 14. Shalom Yitzhak Halevi -- 15. Hayim Hazaz -- 16. Yitzhak Isaac Halevi Herzog -- 17. Abraham Joshua Heschel.
18. Joseph Shlomo Kahaneman -- 19. Yossef Kappah -- 20. Jacob Kaplan -- 21. Mordecai Menahem Kaplan -- 22. Yekhezkel Kaufmann -- 23. Aaron Kotler -- 24. Dante Lattes -- 25. Saul Lieberman -- 26. Yehuda Leib Hakohen Maimon -- 27. Moshe Maisels -- 28. André Neher -- 29. Salomon Rodrigues Pereira -- 30. Chaim Perelman -- 31. Simon H. Rifkind -- 32. Yecheskiel Sarne -- 33. Joseph Schecter -- 34. Menachem Mendel Schneerson -- 35. Sh. (Shalom Joseph Shapira) Shalom -- 36. Moshe Silberg -- 37. Akiva Ernst Simon -- 38. Leon (Arye) Simon -- 39. Joseph Dov Soloveitchik and Chaim Heller -- 40. Alfredo Shabtai Toaff -- 41. Elio Raffaelo Toaff -- 42. Ephraim A. Urbach -- 43. Yekhiel Weinberg -- 44. Tsevi (Harry A.) Wolfson -- 45. Aaron Zeitlin -- 46. Shlomo Y. Zevin -- Glossary of Hebrew Words -- A -- B -- D -- E -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- O -- P -- S -- T -- Y -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Ten years after the creation of the state of Israel, David Ben Gurion wrote to 50 of the best thinkers and researchers in the world asking "Who is a Jew?" This publication contains the letters that answered this question, the original text of Ben Gurion, and an analysis by Shalow Tasavi.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Preface -- PART ONE: WHAT IS A JEW? -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE: ENTERING THE MODERN ERA -- The Decline of a Caste -- Orthodoxy as Conservative Change -- Non-Orthodox Judaism -- The Enlightenment in Eastern Europe -- Zionism and the Bund -- The Space of Identities -- CHAPTER TWO: BEN-GURION'S CORRESPONDENTS -- A Phoenix Generation -- Three Syndromes -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER THREE: ISRAELI-JEWISH IDENTITIES -- Introduction -- Revolution, Unity, and Elitism -- The Role of Religion -- Ethnic Divides -- Ideological Controversies -- Confictual Multiculturalism -- CHAPTER FOUR: JEWISH IDENTITIES IN THE DIASPORA-THE CASE OF AMERICA -- Social Achievements and Demographic Risks -- A Religion of Congregations -- The Future at Issue -- Cultural Ethnicity -- CHAPTER FIVE: DIVERGENCE AND CONVERGENCE OF JEWISH IDENTITIES -- Beyond Traditional Identity -- After Migration, the Holocaust, and Establishment of the State -- At the Dawn of the 21st Century -- "Family Resemblance" and Tensions -- PART TWO: WHO IS A JEW? -- Preamble -- HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION -- The Starting Point -- The Ger before the Destruction of the First Temple -- From Ezra and Nehemiah to the End of the Second Temple Period -- Conversion as Entrance into Abraham's Covenant -- BEN-GURION'S QUERY -- THE LETTERS OF THE SAGES -- 1. Shmuel Yossef Agnon -- 2. Alexander Altmann -- 3. Henry Baruk -- 4. Shmuel Hugo Bergmann -- 5. Isaiah Berlin -- 6. Yehuda Bourla -- 7. Haim Hermann Cohn -- 8. Louis Eliezer Halevi Finkelstein -- 9. Felix Frankfurter -- 10. Solomon B. Freehof -- 11. Shlomo Goren -- 12. Aryeh Leib Grossnass, Meir Lew, Abraham Rappoport, Meir Halevy Steinberg and Morris Swift -- 13. Zecharya Hacohen -- 14. Shalom Yitzhak Halevi -- 15. Hayim Hazaz -- 16. Yitzhak Isaac Halevi Herzog -- 17. Abraham Joshua Heschel.

18. Joseph Shlomo Kahaneman -- 19. Yossef Kappah -- 20. Jacob Kaplan -- 21. Mordecai Menahem Kaplan -- 22. Yekhezkel Kaufmann -- 23. Aaron Kotler -- 24. Dante Lattes -- 25. Saul Lieberman -- 26. Yehuda Leib Hakohen Maimon -- 27. Moshe Maisels -- 28. André Neher -- 29. Salomon Rodrigues Pereira -- 30. Chaim Perelman -- 31. Simon H. Rifkind -- 32. Yecheskiel Sarne -- 33. Joseph Schecter -- 34. Menachem Mendel Schneerson -- 35. Sh. (Shalom Joseph Shapira) Shalom -- 36. Moshe Silberg -- 37. Akiva Ernst Simon -- 38. Leon (Arye) Simon -- 39. Joseph Dov Soloveitchik and Chaim Heller -- 40. Alfredo Shabtai Toaff -- 41. Elio Raffaelo Toaff -- 42. Ephraim A. Urbach -- 43. Yekhiel Weinberg -- 44. Tsevi (Harry A.) Wolfson -- 45. Aaron Zeitlin -- 46. Shlomo Y. Zevin -- Glossary of Hebrew Words -- A -- B -- D -- E -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- O -- P -- S -- T -- Y -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Ten years after the creation of the state of Israel, David Ben Gurion wrote to 50 of the best thinkers and researchers in the world asking "Who is a Jew?" This publication contains the letters that answered this question, the original text of Ben Gurion, and an analysis by Shalow Tasavi.

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