Toleration Within Judaism - Couverture rigide

Goodman, Martin; David, Joseph E.; Kaiser, Corinna R.; Sullam, Simon Levis

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1906764174 ISBN 13 : 9781906764173

Editeur : The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2013

Synopsis

The Bible itself calls the Jewish people ‘a company of nations’, suggesting that difference within Judaism is not a new phenomenon. It has continued throughout Jewish history, and this volume investigates how and why such difference has been tolerated. Drawing on examples from different geographical areas and from ancient times to the present, the contributors consider why Jews sometimes attempt to impose constraints on other Jews or relate to them as if they were not Jews at all, but at other times recognize differences of practice and belief and develop ways of handling them. In doing so, they provide an insight into a history of Judaism as a complex web of interactions between groups of Jews despite grounds for mutual antagonism.

Substantial introductory chapters lay out the issues and provide an extensive survey of cases of toleration throughout the past two thousand years, outlining possible structural reasons for it. The eight chapters that follow each take a specific case of toleration within Judaism, attempting to explain it in light of the models outlined in the Introduction. Presented in chronological order, the cases have been selected to reflect a spectrum of responses, from grudging forbearance to enthusiastic welcome of difference. Covering both practice and theology, each case is presented in depth, with full documentation. The Conclusion provides an overview of the patterns of tolerance that have emerged and discusses the implications for writing the history of Judaism as a narrative more complex than either the tracing of a linear progression from the Bible to the present, with variations presented as deviations, or as a model of overlapping ‘Judaisms’.

This innovative volume sheds light on an important and overlooked aspect of the history of Judaism and should have broad appeal, not only for students and scholars of Judaism but for students of religious studies more generally.

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À propos de l'auteur

Martin Goodman is Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of Wolfson College, and a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Among his books on Jewish history are Rome and Jerusalem (2007) and Judaism in the Roman World: Collected Essays (2007). Joseph David is Senior Lecturer in Law and Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Sapir Academic College. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania, at Rutgers, and at New York University, and a sub-faculty member in the University of Oxford. He is the author of The Family and the Political: On Belonging and Responsibility in a Liberal Society (2012) and Between Logos and Nomos: Law and Theology in Medieval Jewish Thought (forthcoming). Corinna R. Kaiser has taught at the universities of Düsseldorf and Giessen, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rutgers, and the University of Oxford. She recently returned to Düsseldorf as a lecturer. She specializes in the cultural, ritual, and media history of the Jews in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She is assistant editor of The Jews in the Secret Nazi Reports on Popular Opinion in Germany, 1933 1945 (2010) and author of Gustav Landauer als Schriftsteller: Sprache, Schweigen, Musik (forthcoming). Simon Levis Sullam is Assistant Professor of Modern History at Ca Foscari, University of Venice. He has held visiting positions at Berkeley, at the European University Institute in Florence, and at the University of Oxford. His publications on Jewish history include a modern history of the Jews of Venice, Una Comunità Immaginata (2001), and (as co-editor) the multi-volume Storia della Shoah (2006 10).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1906764174
• ISBN 13: 9781906764173
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 246
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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