In Pursuit of Godliness and a Living Judaism

The Life and Thought of Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis

Edward M. Feinstein (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2020
Turner Publishing Company (Verlag)
978-1-68442-434-4 (ISBN)

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“This is a loving, sophisticated, illuminating, outstanding depiction of a brilliant intellectual/spiritual/moral leader who deserves just such a treatment. This book will serve as testimony and inspiration for the new generation… a tour de force articulation of a truly great life.” – Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg

A comprehensive biography about the life and work of Rabbi Harold Shulweis who was essential in the renewal of Jewish life in post-war America.

Harold Schulweis was a dominant figure in the renewal of Jewish life in the post-war generation of American Jewry. Widely regarded as the most successful and influential pulpit rabbi of his generation, he shaped an extraordinary career as pulpit rabbi, theologian, public intellectual, and communal leader. His innovations in synagogue practice reshaped congregations across the continent introducing synagogue-based havurot, “para-rabbinics” and para-professional counseling programs, outreach to alienated Jews and “unchurched” Christians, opening the traditional synagogue to gay and lesbian Jews and their families, and welcoming families of children with special needs. With Leonard Fein, Schulweis founded Mazon, the Jewish communal response to hunger. He launched The Foundation for the Righteous – recognizing Christians who rescued Jews during the Holocaust – an effort chronicled on the CBS news program “60 Minutes.” In the closing years of his career, he initiated the Jewish World Watch – a communal response to the incidence of genocide worldwide.

Rabbi Edward Feinstein is senior rabbi of Valley Beth Shalom in Encino, California. He is an instructor in the Ziegler Rabbinical School of American Jewish University and the Wexner Heritage Program. He is the author of Tough Questions Jews Ask: A Young Adult's Guide to Building a Jewish Life (Jewish Lights) and Capturing the Moon; and the editor of Jews and Judaism in the 21st Century: Human Responsibilities, the Presence of God, and the Future of the Covenant (Jewish Lights). He contributed to May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing in Judaism—Yizkor; Who by Fire, Who by Water—Un'taneh Tokef and We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism—Ashamnu and Al Chet (all Jewish Lights).

Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One: The American Jewish Experience
Chapter 1The American Rabbi, a Brief History
1.1The First American Rabbis
1.2The Golden Age of the American Rabbinate, 1918–1950
1.3The New Rabbinate, the New Synagogue,
the New Judaism
1.4Zionism and Power
1.5Political Power
1.6The Dynamic Rabbinate

Chapter 2Three Languages, Three Voices
2.1Identity: Speaking Three Languages
2.2Formation
2.3Family
2.4Oakland, California, 1952–1970
The Theological Voice
The Prophetic Voice
The Voice of Community Building
New Narratives
2.5Transition

Chapter 3Encino, 1970
3.1The Resurgence of Los Angeles Jewry
3.2A Congregation of Newcomers
3.3The Suburban Paradise
3.4Hear Me Roar
3.5Is That All There Is?
3.6Encino Jews
Part Two: Three Rabbinic Voices
Chapter 4The Theological Voice
4.1The Rabbi as Theologian
4.2The Theologian as Rabbi
4.3The Failure of Theodicy
Classical Metaphysical Theologies:
Aquinas and Maimonides
Hartshorne’s Process Theology
Personalist Theologies: Buber and Barth
The Eternal Question—Why Me?
4.4Predicate Theology
Sources
Answering Evil
Revelation
Oneness
Prayer
Godliness or Goodness?
I Seek a God I Can’t Believe In
4.5Two Names for God
4.6God and the Holocaust

Chapter 5The Prophetic Voice
5.1The Rabbi as Prophet
5.2The 1970s: The Holocaust Dybbuk
5.3The 1980s: Out of the Cave
5.4The 1990s: The Stenosis of Halachah
5.52000: The Duty to Obey, the Duty to Disobey

Chapter 6The Voice of Community Building
6.1The Psychological Jew
6.2Mediating Structures: The Synagogue Havurah
6.3Mediating Structures: Para-Rabbinics
6.4Poetry
6.5Reinventing the Rabbinate
6.6Shaping New Narratives
Epilogue
A Note on Sources
Works Cited

Erscheinungsdatum	10.01.2020
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Paducah, KY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-68442-434-8 / 1684424348
ISBN-13	978-1-68442-434-4 / 9781684424344
Zustand	Neuware