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Title

Conversion, intermarriage, and Jewish identity / edited by Adam Mintz and Marc D. Stern.

Publication

• Brooklyn, NY : KTAV Publishing House : Urim Publications, [2015]
• ©2015

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mintz, Adam
• Stern, Marc D.

Description

501 pages ; 24 cm.

Summary

"Questions of conversion have been amongst the most fraught issues on the internal Jewish agenda in Israel, the United States, and elsewhere. This monograph represents the first collection of essays and articles by leading scholars and rabbis on the topics of intermarriage, conversion, and Jewish identity"--

Series Statement

Orthodox Forum Series

Uniform Title

Orthodox Forum series.

Subject

• Intermarriage > Religious aspects > Judaism
• Conversion > Judaism
• Jews > Identity
• Interfaith marriage

Note

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part I. Intermarriage 1. Intermarriage in the Early Modern Period / Judith Bleich -- 2. Diagnosing Challenges to Contemporary Modern Orthodox Families / Sylvia Barack Fishman -- 3. Intermarriage and Jewish Communal Policy: Challenges to Orthodoxy / Steven Bayme -- Part II. Conversion in the State of Israel 4. From "Who Is a Jew" to "Who Should Be a Jew": The Current Debates on Giyur in Israel / Arye Edrei -- 5. Giyur in the Context of National Identity / Chaim I. Waxman -- Part III. History of Geirut 6. Conversion to Judaism in Tannaitic Halakhah / Lawrence H. Schiffman -- 7. Approaches to Conversion in Medieval European Rabbinic Literature: From Ashkenaz to Sefarad / Ephraim Kanarfogel -- 6. Conversion to Judaism in Tannaitic Halakhah / Lawrence H. Schiffman -- Part IV. Current Contemporary Halakhic Approaches to Geirut 8. Modern-day Ashkenazi Psak regarding the Nullification of Conversion / Yosef Zvi Rimon -- 9. Sephardic Approaches to Conversion / Richard Hidary -- 10. Geirus Procedures and Standards Network / Yosef Blau -- 11. The Contemporary Rabbinate and Conversion / Benjamin J. Samuels -- Part V. The Theological Foundations of Jewish Identity 12. "If You Were a Human Being" A Thought Experiment / Shalom Carmy -- Part VI. Orthodox Responses to New Paradigms of Jewishness 13. American Orthodox Responses to Intermarriage / Jonathan D. Sarna -- 14. The Jewish People - A Yawning Definitional Gap / Marc D. Stern -- 15. Actually Jewish: How Young American Jews See Their Status and How Orthodox Rabbis Respond / Yehuda Sarna.

ISBN

• 9789655241976 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9655241971 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2015012389

OCLC

• 905759397
• SCSB-11379423

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library