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Informationen zum Autor Gitelman, Zvi Klappentext In Religion or Ethnicity? fifteen leading scholars trace the evolution of Jewish identity. The book examines Judaism from the Greco-Roman age! through medieval times! modern western and eastern Europe! to today. Jewish identity has been defined as an ethnicity! a nation! a culture! and even a race. Zusammenfassung Features fifteen scholars who trace the evolution of Jewish identity. This book examines Judaism from the Greco-Roman age! through medieval times! to modern western! and eastern Europe onwards. Inhaltsverzeichnis Jewish religion, Jewish ethnicity: the evolution of Jewish identities / Zvi Gitelman Secularism, hellenism, and rabbis in antiquity / Yaron Eliav What is a Judaism?: perspectives from Second Temple Jewish studies / Gabriele Boccaccini Crypto-Jewish criticism of tradition and its echoes in Jewish communities / Miriam Bodian Spinoza and the origins of Jewish secularism / Steven Nadler Yiddish schools in America and the problem of secular Jewish identity / David Fishman Beyond assimilation: introducing subjectivity to German-Jewish history / Scott Spector Jewish self-identification and West European categories of belonging from the Enlightenment to World War II / Todd Endelman People of the (secular) book: literary anthologies and the making of Jewish identity in postwar America / Julian Levinson Secular-Jewish identity and the condition of secular Judaism in Israel / Charles Liebman and Yaacov Yadgar Beyond the religious-secular dichotomy: masortim in Israel / Charles Liebman and Yaacov Yadgar 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 The construction of 'secular' and 'religious' in modern Hebrew literature / Shachar Pinsker Jewish identity and secularism in post-Soviet Russia and Ukraine / Zvi Gitelman Judaism, community, and Jewish culture in American life: continuities and transformations / Calvin Goldscheider Beyond apikorsut: a Judaism for secular Jews / Adam Chalom The nature and viability of Jewish religious and secular identities / Zvi Gitelman...
