Pledges of Jewish Allegiance: Conversion, Law, and Policymaking in Nineteenth- and Twentieth- Century Orthodox Responsa - Couverture rigide

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Ellenson, David; Gordis, Daniel

 
9780804778053: Pledges of Jewish Allegiance: Conversion, Law, and Policymaking in Nineteenth- and Twentieth- Century Orthodox Responsa
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ISBN 10 : 0804778051 ISBN 13 : 9780804778053
Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2012

Synopsis

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--culturally, socially, and politically--into broader society, questions surrounding Jewish status and identity have occupied a prominent and contentious place in Jewish legal discourse. This book examines a wide array of legal opinions written by nineteenth- and twentieth-century orthodox rabbis in Europe, the United States, and Israel. It argues that these rabbis' divergent positions--based on the same legal precedents--demonstrate that they were doing more than delivering legal opinions. Instead, they were crafting public policy for Jewish society in response to Jews' social and political interactions as equals with the non-Jewish persons in whose midst they dwelled.

Pledges of Jewish Allegiance prefaces its analysis of modern opinions with a discussion of the classical Jewish sources upon which they draw.

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À propos de l'auteur

David Ellenson, President and I. H. and Anna Grancell Professor of Jewish Religious Thought at Hebrew Union College-Jewish institute of Religion, is a distinguished rabbi, scholar, and leader of the Reform Movement. Daniel Gordis is President of the Shalem Foundation and Senior Fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem. He is a columnist for the Jerusalem Post and a frequent contributor to the New York Times and was the founding dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the University of Judaism.

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Éditeur
Stanford University Press
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0804778051
ISBN 13 
9780804778053
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Nombre de pages
216
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