The Wiley-Blackwell History of Jews and Judaism (eBook)

Alan T. Levenson (Autor)

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2012
921 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-23293-4 (ISBN)

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In The Wiley-Blackwell History of Jews and Judaism, a team of internationally-renowned scholars offer a comprehensive and authoritative overview of Jewish life and culture, from the biblical period to contemporary times.

• Provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the main periods and themes of Jewish history, from Biblical Israel, through medieval and early modern periods, to Judaism since the Holocaust, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and Judaism today
• Brings together an international team of established and emerging scholars across a range of disciplines
• Discusses how to present Judaism - to both non-Jews and Jews - as a religious system on its own terms and with its own unique vocabulary
• Explores the latest scholarship on a range of issues, including folk practices, politics, economic structure, the relationship of Judaism to Christianity, and the nature of Zionism diaspora and its implications for contemporary Israel
• Considers Jewish historiography and the lives of ordinary people, the achievements of Jewish women, and the sustained interaction of Jews within the environments they inhabited
• Edited by a leading scholar in Jewish studies and history

Alan T. Levenson is Schusterman/Josey Professor of Jewish Intellectual and Religious History at the University of Oklahoma. His publications include Modern Jewish Thinkers: An Introduction (2006); Between Philosemitism and Antisemitism: German Defenses of Jews and Judaism (2004); The Story of Joseph: A Jewish Journey of Interpretation (2004); and The Making of the Modern Jewish Bible (2011).

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The Wiley-Blackwell History of Jews and Judaism presents a panoramic and comprehensive overview of the major aspects of Jewish life and culture, from the biblical period through to contemporary times. A collection of outstanding contributions from leading experts presents the latest scholarship on a range of questions relating to Jews, Jewish history, Judaism, folk practices, politics, economic structure, the relationship of Judaism to Christianity, and the manifold participation of Jews in general culture through various times and geographical locales. In addition, the book explores Jewish historiography and the lives of ordinary people, the achievements of Jewish women, and the sustained interaction of Jews within the environments they inhabited. In exploring the major periods and themes of Jewish history and the history of Judaism, the volume features a wide range of contemporary approaches that demonstrate the maturation of Jewish studies. Special attention is accorded to underrepresented eras, including the early modern and post-1945 periods of Jewish history in all their major dimensions. More contentious scholarly issues such as the relationship of Ancient Israel and the Hebrew Bible, or the nature of Zionism diaspora and its implications for contemporary Israel feature multiple essays that reveal varied points of view. Lively and informative, this essential single-volume reference reflects our current state of knowledge on the evolution of Jewish life and culture, from its ancient origins to the modern age.

Inhalt

Notes on Contributors ix

Preface xvii

Acknowledgments xix

Introduction 1

Part I Ancient Israel 13

1 What Is the Hebrew Bible? 15

Frederick E. Greenspahn

2 How "Historical" Is Ancient Israel? 25

Ehud Ben Zvi

3 Priests and Levites in the Hebrew Bible 35

Stephen A. Geller

4 How Unique Was Israelite Prophecy? 53

Jonathan StEURokl

5 Judaism after the Exile: The Later Books of the Bible 70

Daniel C. Snell

6 Translation: The Biblical Legacy to Judaism 83

Leonard Greenspoon

Part II From Ancient Israel to Rabbinic Jewry 99

7 Jews in the Land During the Second Temple Period 101

Steven Werlin

8 Jews in Egypt: The Special Case of the Septuagint 121

Peg Kershenbaum

9 Early Christianity in a Jewish Context 142

Julie Galambush

10 The Babylonian Consolidation of Rabbinic Judaism 156

Shai Secunda

Part III The Medieval World: Jews in Two Cultures 167

11 Jews in Christian Europe: Ashkenaz in the Middle Ages
169

Eva Haverkamp

12 The Jews in the Medieval Arabic-Speaking World 207

Norman (Noam) Stillman

13 Turning Point: The Spanish Expulsion 224

Jane S. Gerber

14 Medieval Jewish Mysticism 244

Hartley Lachter

Part IV The Early Modern Period
(Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries) 257

15 Judaism and Science in the Age of Discovery 259

Joseph M. Davis

16 A History of Hasidism: Origins and Developments 277

Gadi Sagiv

17 Jews and Judaism in the Early Modern New World: Central and
North America 291

Dean Phillip Bell

18 The Jews of the Ottoman Empire 309

Yaron Ayalon

Part V The Modern Period 325

19 How Jews Modernized: The Western Nations 327

Carsten Schapkow

20 The Zionist Movement and the Path to Statehood 343

Brian Amkraut

21 The Jews in the Land of the Russian Tsars 361

Jarrod Tanny

22 The Great Migration: 1881-1924 381

Jessica Cooperman

23 Polish Jewry between the World Wars 393

Sean Martin

24 Organized Movements of American Judaism: From 1880 to World
War II 409

Michael R. Cohen

25 Paths of Modernity: Jewish Women in Central Europe 422

Kerry Wallach

26 Antisemitism and Anti-Jewish Hostility 441

Richard S. Levy

Part VI Jews and Judaism since the Holocaust and the Birth of
Israel 459

27 The Existential Crisis of the Holocaust 461

Peter Haas

28 American Jews and the Jewish State 476

David Bamberger

29 Judaism(s) in Contemporary America 489

Dana Evan Kaplan

30 Traditional Judaism in the Twenty-First Century 514

Mark I. Dunaevsky

31 Contemporary American Jewish Culture 529

Ted Merwin

32 Israeli Culture from 1948 to the Present 548

Keren Rubinstein

33 The Israeli Economy 571

Paul Rivlin

34 Ethnic Diversity in Israel 586

Ari Ariel

Part VII Special Topics 601

35 The World of Jewish Music 603

Marsha Bryan Edelman

36 American Jewry's Identification with Israel: Problems
and Prospects 619

Laurence J. Silberstein

37 The Jewish Holy Days 643

Stanley Schachter

Index 661

Rezensionen

"Consequently, this book can serve as a useful addition
for undergraduates collections on Judaism and Jewish history and as
an introductory guide for advanced students. Summing Up:
Recommended. All levels/libraries."
(Choice, 1 December 2012)

"An excellent, comprehensive, and accessible overview of the major
trends, tensions, and transformations in Jewish history. This
volume, consisting of 37 readable essays by different authors,
places Jews and Judaism clearly in the context of the world around
them. This is a great starting point for undergraduates and adult
students of Jewish history."

--David Ariel, President of the Oxford Centre for
Hebrew and Jewish Studies

Edited by an international authority in modern Jewish history
and thought, Alan Levenson has assembled a collection of essays on
Jews and Judaism from Ancient Israel to 2010. He chose a wonderful
combination of veteran and emerging scholars. Their essays are
written with clarity, intelligence, and the most recent research.
Essay after essay is accessible yet scholarly. A fascinating and
comprehensive collection.

--Marc Lee Raphael, College of William and Mary

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Notes on Contributors

Brian Amkraut received his BA from Columbia University; his MA and PhD degrees from New York University in European history and Judaic Studies. Provost of Siegal College, he has served as Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at Oberlin College and at Northeastern University. His first book, titled Between Home and Homeland: Youth Aliyah from Nazi Germany, was recently published. He is currently completing a study of twenty-first-century Jewish life in America.

Ari Ariel completed his PhD in 2009 in the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. He is now a Dorot Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. His work focuses on ethnic, national, and religious identity among Middle Eastern Jewish communities in the Arab world and Israel.

Yaron Ayalon is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern history at Emory University. His research interests include social history of the early modern and modern Middle East, the Ottoman Empire, non-Muslims under Islamic rule, Sephardi Jewry, and natural disasters. He is currently writing a book about natural disasters in the Middle East, and serves as the editor for the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey section of the Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World. Ayalon has also taught Middle East and Jewish history at the University of Oklahoma. He earned a BA in education and Middle East history from Tel Aviv University in 2002, and a PhD in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University in 2009.

David Bamberger was a reader for the new Jewish Publication Society translation of the Torah prior to its original publication. He is the author of four best-selling textbooks for religious schools. His general history of the Jews, based on Abba Eban's My People, banned in the former Soviet Union, has been translated into Russian for use in both Russia and Israel. He has performed his original presentation, Rebecca Gratz: A Woman for All Seasons, in many cities including New York, St. Louis, and, for Gratz College, in Philadelphia. He is an active member of Beth Israel-The West Temple in Cleveland.

Dean Phillip Bell (PhD, University of California, Berkeley) is Dean, Chief Academic Officer and Professor of History at Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies in Chicago. He has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, Northwestern University, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, DePaul University, and the Hebrew Theological College. Bell is author of Jews in the Early Modern World (2008), Jewish Identity in Early Modern Germany: Memory, Power and Community (2007), Sacred Communities: Jewish and Christian Identities in Fifteenth-Century Germany (2001), and he is, with Stephen Burnett, co-editor of Jews, Judaism and the Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Germany (2006). His current research focuses on cultural and religious responses to natural disaster in early modern Germany.

Michael R. Cohen is the Director of Jewish Studies at Tulane University, and a Monroe Fellow at the New Orleans Gulf South Center at Tulane. He earned his PhD in American Jewish History from Brandeis University, and his current project, The Birth of Conservative Judaism: Solomon Schechter's Disciples and the Creation of an American Religious Movement (2012) argues that Conservative rabbis were the ones who were largely responsible for creating the movement. Cohen's work currently focuses on Jewish life in the South during Reconstruction, and he has also worked on New England Jewry. Cohen received his AB with honors from Brown University.

Jessica Cooperman is the Posen Foundation Teaching Fellow in Jewish Studies at Muhlenberg College, in Allentown, PA. She received her PhD in 2010 from New York University. Her research focuses on the Jewish Welfare Board and the World War I American military. She is working on a book that explores the impact of Jewish military service in World War I on the development of American conceptions of religious pluralism.

Joseph M. Davis is an Associate Professor at Gratz College in Philadelphia. He is the author of Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller: Portrait of the Seventeenth Century Rabbi (2001). A student of the late Professor Isadore Twersky, he has published numerous articles on Ashkenazic Jews of the sixteenth and seventeenth century.

Mark I. Dunaevsky is a Rabbi, lawyer, and independent scholar from Evanston, Illinois. He has degrees in philosophy and in law from Northwestern University, and smicha (rabbinical ordination) from the Brisk Rabbinical College in Chicago, Illinois.

Marsha Bryan Edelman holds degrees in general music, Jewish music, and Jewish studies from Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS). Professor Emeritas of Music and Education at Gratz College, she continues to serve there in several adjunct roles, and also teaches in the Miller Cantorial School at JTS. Dr Edelman has written and lectured extensively on a variety of topics relating to the nature and history of Jewish music. She is an active singer, arranger, and conductor, and has been associated with the Zamir Choral Foundation in various musical and administrative capacities since 1971.

Julie Galambush is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA. She is the author of Jerusalem in the Book of Ezekiel: The City as Yahweh's Wife and The Reluctant Parting: How the New Testament's Jewish Writers Created a Christian Book.

Stephen A. Geller is the Irma Cameron Milstein Professor of Hebrew Bible at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. He received his PhD from Harvard in 1976. He has also taught at York University in Toronto, Dropsie College in Philadelphia, and Brandeis University in Waltham, MA. He has worked in the field of biblical poetry and religion, and has published books and numerous articles in these areas, among them Sacred Enigmas. Literary Religion in the Hebrew Bible (1996) and, most recently, studies on the role of nature in biblical religion and other topics. He is currently working on a commentary on the Book of Psalms for the Hermeneia series.

Jane S. Gerber is Professor of History and Director of the Institute for Sephardic Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is a past President of the Association for Jewish Studies. She is the author of more than one hundred books, articles and reviews, including The Jews of Spain, which won the National Jewish Book Award in 1993, and Jewish Society in Fez. Her forthcoming books are The Portuguese Jewish Diaspora in the Caribbean, the proceedings of a conference held in Kingston, Jamaica in January 2010, and Cities of Splendor in the Shaping of Sephardic History. She has been a Visiting Professor at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Jewish Theological Seminary. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including as a finalist for Excellence in Teaching at Lehman College of CUNY. She received her BA from Wellesley College, an MA from Harvard University, and a PhD from Columbia University.

Frederick E. Greenspahn is Gimelstob Eminent Scholar of Judaic Studies at Florida Atlantic University. He has written numerous books and articles, including An Introduction to Aramaic and When Brothers Dwell Together, the Preeminence of Younger Siblings in the Hebrew Bible. He was president of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew and has served on the boards of the Association for Jewish Studies and the Society of Biblical Literature. He is currently editing the New York University Press series Jewish Studies in the 21st Century, and has also edited several books on interfaith relations.

Leonard Greenspoon holds the Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization at Creighton University. On the Creighton faculty since 1995, Greenspoon is also Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies and of Theology. From his days at a graduate student at Harvard University, he has been interested in translations of the Bible. He has edited or authored almost twenty books, written more than two hundred articles and book chapters, and penned hundreds of book reviews that deal with aspects of this fascinating subject. He has written on topics ranging from the earliest translation of the Bible (the Septuagint) to versions of the Bible composed as recently as this year.

Peter Haas received ordination at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, OH and then served as an active US Army chaplain for three years. Upon completion of active duty, Rabbi Haas enrolled in the graduate program in religion at Brown University, earning a PhD in Jewish Studies in 1980. He joined the faculty of the Department of Religious Studies at Case Western Reserve University in January, 2000, and was appointed Chair of the department in 2003. He also directs the Program in Judaic Studies. Professor Haas has published several books and articles dealing with moral discourse and with Jewish and Christian thought after the Holocaust.

Eva Haverkamp has been Professor for Medieval Jewish History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich (Germany) since 2009. She earned her PhD at the University of Constance in 1999 before becoming Assistant...

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.3.2012
• Reihe/Serie: The Wiley-Blackwell Histories of Religion
• Reihe/Serie: The Wiley-Blackwell Histories of Religion
• Reihe/Serie: The Wiley-Blackwell Histories of Religion
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Arab • Bible • Culture • Diaspora • Geschichte • Geschichte des Christentums • Hebrew • Historiography • History • History of Christianity • Holocaust • Israel • Jewish Studies • Judaism • Judentum • Religion & Culture • Religion & Theology • Religion u. Kultur • Religion u. Theologie • Women • Zionism • Zionism, diaspora, Hebrew, Bible, Israel, culture, Holocaust, historiography, Jewish Studies, women, Arab
• ISBN-10: 1-118-23293-3 / 1118232933
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-23293-4 / 9781118232934