The Way Into the Varieties of Jewishness

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ISBN: 9781580233675 | 1580233678
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Copyright: 8/1/2008

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The Way Into... Series offers an accessible and highly usable "guided tour" of the Jewish faith, people, history and beliefs-in total, an introduction to Judaism that will enable you to understand and interact with the sacred texts of the Jewish tradition.

About The Way Into...	p. i
Timeline	p. vi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Ancient Jews, Homeland, and Exiles	p. 7
Memories Out of Biblical Texts	p. 8
The Early Jews: Hill Country Tribes and Ancient Israelites	p. 13
Kings and Kingdoms	p. 15
Divided Jewish Nations	p. 18
Diaspora Judaism, and a Chance to Return	p. 20
Characteristics of Early Jewishness	p. 21
Democratization and a Tradition of Sacred Interpretation	p. 23
Jewish Encounters with Western Cultures	p. 27
Hellenizers, Hasmoneans, and Jewish Pietists	p. 28
Pharisees and Sadduccees	p. 31
The Essenes	p. 33
Rabbinic Judaism and the Written "Oral" Law	p. 34
Magic, Messianism, and Early Christians	p. 36
Mirror, Mirror: Early Jewishness and Later Jews	p. 39
The Wandering Jews	p. 44
Peoplehood and Jewish Culture in the Diaspora	p. 44
The Jewish Calendar and Life Cycle	p. 46
Jewish Integration on the Iberian Peninsula	p. 48
Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition	p. 56
Jewish Culture in Medieval Christian Europe	p. 61
The Jewish Experience in the Transition toward Modernity	p. 66
Sephardi Jews Strike Out for New Homes	p. 69
Trauma and Messianism in Polish Jewish Life	p. 71
Hasidic and Mitnagdic Jewish Rivalry	p. 72
Emancipating into Modern Jewishness	p. 76
Piecemeal Emancipation and the "Brutal Bargain"	p. 76
Western Europe's Haskalah: Rationalism and the Jewish Enlightenment	p. 80
The Reformer's Challenge	p. 86
Traditionalists Who Synthesized-or Rejected-Modernity	p. 88
East European Haskalah: Secular Modern Movements and a Jewish Enlightenment	p. 92
Zionism and the "New Jew"	p. 97
Exodus to America-Another Kind of Zion	p. 100
Reforming American Judaism	p. 105
A Large Movement with a Wide Tent	p. 105
Custom-Making American "Classic" Reform Judaism	p. 109
East European Jews-and Influence-Enter American Reform	p. 114
The 1960s Bring New-and Old-Styles of Worship and Practice	p. 120
Contemporary Developments: Choosing Covenantal Judaism-or Not	p. 124
Shades of American Orthodoxy	p. 127
Dressing to Accommodate-or Resist-American Culture	p. 130
Centrist Orthodoxy	p. 132
Modern Orthodoxy	p. 133
Ultra-Orthodoxy	p. 136
The Evolution of American Modern and Antimodern Orthodox Models	p. 140
Synthesizing America into Orthodox Lives	p. 146
Day Schools and the Text-Based Revolution	p. 149
Triumphalism-and Tension	p. 151
Conservative Judaism at the Crossroads	p. 153
Conservative "Folk" and "Elites"	p. 154
American Conservative Judaisms Evolve	p. 158
A Conservative Jewish Empire at Midcentury	p. 161
Challenge and Change: Civil Rights	p. 165
Gender Egalitarianism and Conservative Judaism	p. 166
From Comfort to Discomfort in the Center	p. 169
Conservation or Transformation in the Twenty-First Century?	p. 170
An American Kaleidoscope: Reconstructionist, Renewal, and Secular Forms of American Jewishness	p. 173
Reconstructing American Jewish Life	p. 174
Renewing Jewish Spirituality	p. 179
Secular and Cultural Jews	p. 182
Jewish Secular Socialism	p. 185
Secular Social Activism	p. 186
American Secular Jewishness	p. 187
Jews by Choice	p. 192
Converts in the Jewish Community	p. 192
Three Types of Converts	p. 194
Historical Jewish Approaches to Conversion	p. 197
Contemporary Communal Conversations about Conversion	p. 202
Conversion and Jewish Identification	p. 206
Conclusion: Diversity and the Future of the Jewish Renaissance	p. 209
Social Networks and the Jewish Enterprise	p. 211
The Hyphenation of American-Jewish Values	p. 213
Creating Ethnic Capital	p. 215
Jewish Ethnic Capital and the Melting Pot	p. 216
Jewish Counterculturalism	p. 218
A Jewish Renaissance	p. 221
Learning from Each Other	p. 224
Notes	p. 228
Glossary	p. 241
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 255
Index	p. 257
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