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Informationen zum Autor Sylvia Barack Fishman, PhD, a well-known author of many articles and books including Double or Nothing? Jewish Families and Mixed Marriage and Jewish Life and American Culture, is professor of contemporary Jewish life at Brandeis University, and codirector of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute. She speaks frequently at temples and Jewish communal events as well as at academic conferences. Klappentext Dr. Sylvia Barack Fishman helps us explore the religious and historical understanding of what it has meant to be Jewish from ancient times to the present controversy over ?Who is a Jew?? Beginning with the biblical period! this volume takes us period-by-period through Jewish history to reveal who the Jewish community included! and excluded! and discusses the fascinating range of historical conflicts that Jews have dealt with internally! including rationalists and ?Lithuanians against mystics and Hasidim! ? the Karaites! and Jews for Jesus. It will provide an understanding of how the Jewish people and faith developed! and of what the major religious differences are among Jewish movements today. Zusammenfassung An accessible introduction to the many ways Jews understand Jewishness and identify themselves and their communities-throughout history and today. For everyone who wants to understand the varieties of Jewish identity! its boundaries and inclusions! this book explores the religious and historical understanding of what it has meant to be Jewish from ancient times to the present controversy over "Who is a Jew?" Beginning with the biblical period! it takes readers era by era through Jewish history to reveal who the Jewish community included and excluded! and discusses the fascinating range of historical conflicts that Jews have dealt with internally. It provides an understanding of how the Jewish people and faith developed! and of what the major religious differences are among Jewish movements today. Inhaltsverzeichnis About The Way Into ... Timeline Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Ancient Jews, Homeland, and Exiles Memories Out of Biblical Texts The Early Jews: Hill Country Tribes and Ancient Israelites Kings and Kingdoms Divided Jewish Nations Diaspora Judaism, and a Chance to Return Characteristics of Early Jewishness Democratization and a Tradition of Sacred Interpretation Jewish Encounters with Western Cultures Hellenizers, Hasmoneans, and Jewish Pietists Pharisees and Sadduccees The Essenes Rabbinic Judaism and the Written "Oral" Law Magic, Messianism, and Early Christians Mirror, Mirror: Early Jewishness and Later Jews 2. The Wandering Jews Peoplehood and Jewish Culture in the Diaspora The Jewish Calendar and Life Cycle Jewish Integration on the Iberian Peninsula Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition Jewish Culture in Medieval Christian Europe The Jewish Experience in the Transition toward Modernity Sephardi Jews Strike Out for New Homes Trauma and Messianism in Polish Jewish Life Hasidic and Mitnagdic Jewish Rivalry 3. Emancipating into Modern Jewishness Piecemeal Emancipation and the "Brutal Bargain" Western Europe's Haskalah: Rationalism and the Jewish Enlightenment The Reformer's Challenge Traditionalists Who Synthesized-or Rejected-Modernity East European Haskalah: Secular Modern Movements and a Jewish Enlightenment Zionism and the "New Jew" Exodus to America-Another Kind of Zion 4. Reforming American Judaism A Large Movement with a Wide Tent Custom-Making American "Classic" Reform Judaism East European Jews-and Influence-Enter American Reform The 1960s Bring New-and Old-Styles of Worship and Practice Contemporary Developments: Choosing Covenantal Judaism-or Not 5. Shades of American Ortho...
