Pledges of Jewish allegiance
Subtitle: conversion, law, and policymaking in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Orthodox responsa
By: David Ellenson and Daniel Gordis
Contributors: Gordis, Daniel, author
Series: Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture; Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780804778053
Subjects: Conversion; Judaism; Jews; History and criticism; Jewish law; Orthodox Judaism; Responsa; Identity; History
Description: This title explores how, since the late 1700s, when the Jewish community ceased to be a semiautonomous political unit in Western Europe and the United States and individual Jews became integrated into broader society, questions surrounding Jewish status and identity occupied a prominent and contentious place in Jewish legal discourse.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-197) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Who is a Jew? What is a Jew? : Jewish identity, Jewish status, and the challenge of conversion; title: Conversion in Jewish tradition : an introduction to the classical sources; title: Trends in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century German Orthodox responses to conversion and intermarriage; title: Hungarian and Central European writings on conversion and intermarriage; title: Europe and the United States in the modern period; title: Israel : conversion to Judaism in a Jewish society.