Changing the Immutable
Subtitle: How Orthodox Judaism Rewrites Its History
Publisher: Littman Library of Jewish
Published: March 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781904113607
Subjects: Historiography; Jewish Studies; Social Science; Sociology
Description: "A consideration of how segments of Orthodox society rewrite the past by eliminating that which does not fit in with their contemporary world-view. This wide-ranging and original review of how this policy is applied in practice adds a new perspective to Jewish intellectual history and to the understanding of the contemporary Jewish world"--