Religion or ethnicity?
Subtitle: Jewish identities in evolution
By: edited by Zvi Gitelman.
Contributors: Gitelman, Zvi Y.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780813544502; 9780813544519
Subjects: Jews -- Identity; Jews -- Civilization; Humanistic Judaism; Judaism and secularism; Jews -- Israel -- Identity; Secularism -- Israel
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Jewish religion, Jewish ethnicity: the evolution of Jewish identities / Zvi Gitelman; title: Secularism, hellenism, and rabbis in antiquity / Yaron Eliav; title: What is a Judaism?: perspectives from Second Temple Jewish studies / Gabriele Boccaccini; title: Crypto-Jewish criticism of tradition and its echoes in Jewish communities / Miriam Bodian; title: Spinoza and the origins of Jewish secularism / Steven Nadler; title: Yiddish schools in America and the problem of secular Jewish identity / David Fishman; title: Beyond assimilation: introducing subjectivity to German-Jewish history / Scott Spector; title: Jewish self-identification and West European categories of belonging from the Enlightenment to World War II / Todd Endelman; title: People of the (secular) book: literary anthologies and the making of Jewish identity in postwar America / Julian Levinson; title: Secular-Jewish identity and the condition of secular Judaism in Israel / Charles Liebman and Yaacov Yadgar; title: Beyond the religious-secular dichotomy: masortim in Israel / Charles Liebman and Yaacov Yadgar; title: What kind of Jewish state do Israelis want?: the nature and determinants of Israeli attitudes toward secularism and some comparisons with Arab attitudes toward the relationship between religion and politics / Mark Tessler; title: The construction of 'secular' and 'religious' in modern Hebrew literature / Shachar Pinsker; title: Jewish identity and secularism in post-Soviet Russia and Ukraine / Zvi Gitelman; title: Judaism, community, and Jewish culture in American life: continuities and transformations / Calvin Goldscheider; title: Beyond apikorsut: a Judaism for secular Jews / Adam Chalom; title: The nature and viability of Jewish religious and secular identities / Zvi Gitelman.