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This cutting-edge volume addresses central questions and issues animating Judaism, Jewish identity, and Jewish society in the 21st Century in a global, integrated, and forward-looking way, through the prism of three contemporary sets of issues: identities and geographies; structures and power; and knowledge and performances.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
Keren Eva Fraiman & Dean Phillip Bell Part I: Identities and Geographies 1. Who is a Jew in the 21st Century?: The Fractalization of Jewish Identity
David Gottlieb 2. The Polarizing Politics of Peoplehood: Judaism and Collective Identity in the 21st Century
Noam Pianko 3. The Future of Jewish Demography
Sergio DellaPergola 4. Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Israeli Society
Sammy Smooha 5. Hebrew and Jewish Diaspora Languages
Sarah Bunin Benor 6. We Are All Jews: The Jewish Other and the Other as Jew in Sartre, Levinas, and Blanchot
Michael Portal and Claire Elise Katz Part II: Structures and Power 7. Powerful and Powerless: Jews, Government, and Race in Contemporary America
Marc Dollinger 8. Israel: Internal, Regional, and International Issues and Challenges
Ehud Eiran 9. Memory, Memorialization, and the Shoah after "the End of History"?
Manuela Consonni 10. The Institutionalization of American Jewry
Ari Y. Kelman 11. Economics and American Judaism in the 21st Century
Carmel U. Chiswick 12. Transmuted Chosenness: "The Jewish Family" as Functional Religion in the U.S.
Lilah Shapiro 13. Gender Matters: Intermarried Jewish Men, Identity, and Parenting in an Age of Pluralism
Keren R. McGinity 14. As If Forced by a Demon: Traditional Orthodox and Sexual Modesty Codes and Modern Times
Simcha Feuerman Part III. Knowledge and Performance 15. The Bible in the 21st Century
Leonard J. Greenspoon 16. The Talmud Today
Mira Beth Wasserman 17. 21st Century Rituals and Customs
Amy K. Milligan 18. A Digital Revolution?: Jewish Sacred Literature in the 21st Century
Joseph A. Skloot 19. 21st Century Jewish Canons
Claire E. Sufrin 20. God, Covenant, and Authority
William Plevan 21. New Horizons of Revelation on the Axis of 21st Century Jewish Theology
Miriam Feldmann Kaye 22. Jewish Life and Planet Earth in the 21st Century
Nigel Savage 23. The Sounds of 21st Century Judaism
Judah M. Cohen and Gordon Dale 24. Jewish Literature and Jews and Literature
Josh Lambert 25. Looking Jewish in Century 21
Larry Silver. Bibliography
Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Keren Eva Fraiman is Dean/Chief Academic Officer and Associate Professor of Israel Studies at Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership, Chicago, USA.
Dean Phillip Bell is President/Chief Executive Officer and Professor of Jewish History at Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership, Chicago, USA.
Zusammenfassung
This cutting-edge volume addresses central questions and issues animating Judaism, Jewish identity, and Jewish society in the 21st Century in a global, integrated, and forward-looking way, through the prism of three contemporary sets of issues: identities and geographies; structures and power; and knowledge and performances.
