The Oxford Handbook Of Jewish Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies reflects the current state of scholarship in the field as analyzed by an international team of experts in the different and varied areas represented within contemporary Jewish Studies. Unlike recent attempts to encapsulate the current state of Jewish Studies, the Oxford Handbook is more than a mere compendium of agreed facts; rather, it is an exhaustive survey of current interests and directions in the field.

Martin Goodman is Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Oxford. Jeremy Cohen is Professor of Jewish Studies at Tel Aviv University. David Sorkin is Professor of Jewish History at the University of Wisconsin.

List of Contributors

ix

List of Abbreviations

xii

Preface

xiii

The Nature of Jewish Studies

1

(13)

Martin Goodman

Biblical Studies and Jewish Studies

14

(22)

Alan Cooper

Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period

36

(17)

Martin Goodman

The Literature of the Second Temple Period

53

(26)

John J. Collins

Historiography on the Jews in the `Talmudic Period': 70--640 CE

79

(36)

Seth Schwartz

Classical Rabbinic Literature

115

(26)

Catherine Hezser

The Narratives of Medieval Jewish History

141

(12)

Joseph Dan

Medieval Jewry in Christendom

153

(40)

Ram Ben-Shalom

Medieval Jewry in the World of Islam

193

(26)

Mark R. Cohen

Rabbinic Literature in the Middle Ages: 1000--1492

219

(22)

Israel Ta-Shma

The Study of Hebrew Literature of the Middle Ages: Major Trends and Goals

241

(54)

Tova Rosen

Eli Yassif

Medieval Karaism

295

(32)

Meira Polliack

Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries Since 1492

327

(36)

Sarah Abrevaya Stein

European Jewry in the Early Modern Period: 1492--1750

363

(13)

Elisheva Carlebach

Western and Central European Jewry in the Modern Period: 1750--1933

376

(20)

David Rechter

Eastern European Jewry in the Modern Period: 1750--1939

396

(16)

Michael Stanislawski

The Holocaust

412

(33)

Saul Friedlander

Settlement and State in Eretz Israel

445

(26)

S. Ilan Troen

American Jewish History

471

(20)

Hasia Diner

The Hebrew Language

491

(24)

Pablo-Isaac Halevi

Modern Hebrew Literature

515

(26)

Glenda Abramson

Yiddish Studies

541

(31)

Cecile E. Kuznitz

Judaeo-Spanish Studies

572

(29)

Ora R. Schwarzwald

Judaeo-Arabic and Judaeo-Persian

601

(20)

Geoffrey Khan

Other Diaspora Jewish Literatures Since 1492

621

(22)

Ilan Stavans

Halacha and Law

643

(37)

Bernard Jackson

B. Lifshitz

A. Gray

D. B. Sinclair

Bible Interpretation

680

(25)

Michael Fishbane

Mysticism

705

(28)

Philip S. Alexander

Jewish Liturgy and Jewish Scholarship: Method and Cosmology

733

(23)

Lawrence A. Hoffman

Jewish Philosophy and Theology

756

(14)

Paul Mendes-Flohr

Jewish Women's Studies

770

(27)

Tal Ilan

Demography

797

(27)

Sergio Della Pergola

Art, Architecture, and Archaeology

824

(28)

Lee I. Levine

Music

852

(18)

Philip V. Bohlman

Jewish Theatre

870

(41)

Ahuva Belkin

Gad Kaynar

Jewish and Israeli Film Studies

911

(32)

Moshe Zimerman

Anti-Semitism Research

943

(13)

Wolfgang Benz

Jewish Folklore and Ethnography

956

(19)

Galit Hasan-Rokem

Modern Jewish Society and Sociology

975

(28)

Harvey E. Goldberg

Index

1003

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The Oxford Handbook Of Jewish Studies

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