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Social foundations of Judaism

Title
Social foundations of Judaism / editors, Calvin Goldscheider, Jacob Neusner.
Publication
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall, ©1990.

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Additional Authors
  • Goldscheider, Calvin.
  • Neusner, Jacob, 1932-2016.
Description
xvi, 288 pages; 23 cm
Subject
  • Judaism > History
  • Judaism > Social aspects
  • Jewish sociology
  • Judaism > United States
  • Judaism > Israel
  • Judaism
  • Israel
  • United States
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction : Social foundations of Judaism in classical and modern times : from content to context -- Part I : Formative and the classical ages of Judaism : 500 B.C. to A.D. 640, 640 to 1789 -- Religion and society in the formation of the Judaism of the Pentateuch / Jacob Neusner ; Religion and society in the law of the Mishnah / Jacob Neusner ; Social foundations of Medieval mysticism in Judaism / Ivan Marcus ; Religion and economics in Medieval Judaism / Jacob Katz ; Marxist view of Hassidism / Raphael Mahler -- Part II : Age of diversity : Judaisms and modernization, 1789- -- Judaic reformation as a sociopolitical process / Calvin Goldschieder and Alan Zuckerman ; Rise and reception of Zionism in the nineteenth century / Ben Halpern ; Judaism in America : the social crisis of freedom / Jacob Neusner -- Part III : Toward the twenty-first century : contemporary Judaisms in America and in the state of Israel -- Religion and ethnicity in the American Jewish community / Marshall Sklare ; Civil religion and the modern Jewish challenge / Jonathan Woocher ; Synagogue life in America / Samuel Heilman ; Ethnicity, American Judaism, and Jewish cohesion / Calvin Goldscheider ; Social foundation of Israeli Judaism / Shlomo Deshen ; Reform and conservative Judaism in Israel / Ephraim Tabory ; From religious Zionism to Zionist religion / Gideon Aran.
ISBN
  • 0138186839
  • 9780138186838
LCCN
89016274
OCLC
  • ocm20098747
  • 20098747
  • SCSB-1746964
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library