Research Catalog

Title

Jewry between tradition and secularism : Europe and Israel compared / edited by Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Thomas Gergely, and Yosef Gorny.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ben Rafael, Eliezer.
• Gergely, Thomas.
• Gorni, Yosef.

Description

xiii, 321 p.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Jewish identities in a changing world, 1570-7997 ; v. 6

Subject

• Jews > Europe > Identity
• Jews > Israel > Identity
• Judaism > Europe
• Judaism > Israel
• Orthodox Judaism > Israel > Relations > Nontraditional Jews
• Secularism > Israel

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-312) and indexes.

Contents

Preface: Judaism and the culture of memory / Thomas Gergely -- Introduction: European Jewry and Klal Yisrael / Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Thomas Gergely, and Yosef Gorny -- Is the French model in decline? / Pierre Birnbaum -- Case of Belgium / Jean-Philippe Schreiber -- Identity of Dutch Jews / Ludo Abicht -- Russian-Jewish immigration to Germany / Julius H. Schoeps, Willi Jasper, and Olaf Glöckner -- Religiosity, praxis, and tradition in contemporary Hungarian Jewry / András Kovács -- Being Jewish in Romania after the second world war / Carol Iangu -- Jewish identity, memory, and anti-Semitism / Maurice Konopnicki -- Siamese twins: religion and secularism in Jewish national thought / Yosef Gorny -- Israeli identity and mission in Buber's thought / Shalom Ratzabi -- Sovereignty, voluntarism, and Jewish identity: Nathan Rotenstreich / Avi Bareli -- On religious-secular tensions / Avi Sagi -- Religious-secular cleavage in contemprary Israel / Yochanan Peres -- On European Jewish Orthodoxy, Sephardic tradition, and the Shas movement / Zvi Zohar -- Ultra-Orthodox, Orthodox, and secular women in college / Lior Ben-Chaim Rafael -- Challenge of secularism to Jewish survival in Abba Hillel Silver's thinking / Ofer Shiff -- Identities of Jewish American women / Suzanne Vromen -- Jews and secularization: a challenge or a prospect? / Guy Haarscher -- Submission and subversion before the law / Rivon Krygier -- Tradition of diaspora and political reality of the state of Israel / David Meyer -- Diaspora museum and Israeli-Jewish identity / Dina Porat -- Jewish transnational community and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem / Uri Cohen -- Contemporary dilemmas of identity: Israel and the diaspora / Eliezer Ben-Rafael -- Was the Shoah the "sanctification of God"? / Thomas Gergely.

Call Number

*PYC 06-1965

ISBN

9004151400 (hardback)

LCCN

• 2006047458
• 9789004151406

OCLC

69983546

Title

Jewry between tradition and secularism : Europe and Israel compared / edited by Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Thomas Gergely, and Yosef Gorny.

Imprint

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.

Series

Jewish identities in a changing world, 1570-7997 ; v. 6

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-312) and indexes.

Added Author

Ben Rafael, Eliezer.

Gergely, Thomas.

Gorni, Yosef.

Other Standard Identifier

9789004151406

Research Call Number

*PYC 06-1965