Transforming Relations
Transforming Relations is a collection of original essays on the history of Jews and Christians in antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the modern era that honors the influential work of Michael A. Signer (1945-2009). Reflecting the breadth of Signer's research and pedagogical interests, the essays treat various aspects of the Jewish-Christian relationship through the centuries, from the divine law in antiquity to philosemitism in contemporary Christianity, from scriptural interpretation in the twelf...
Die Krakauer Juedische Reformgemeinde 1864-1874 (Europaische Hochschulschriften. Reihe III, Geschichte Und Ih, #818)
by Hanna Kozinska-Witt
Krakau gilt als eines der altesten Zentren des osteuropaischen Judentums. Das 19. Jahrhundert, das auch Krakauer Juden unter osterreichischer Herrschaft die volle politische Gleichberechtigung brachte, eroffnete dem aus der Aufklarung und den verschiedenen Emanzipationsbestrebungen hervorgegangenen Reformjudentum neue Wege. In diesem Buch wird die fruhe Geschichte der Krakauer Reform an Hand der aufbewahrten Archivalien und zahlreicher Presseberichte mikrohistorisch aufgearbeitet."
Darwin provoked Jewish as well as Christian thinkers so that many felt obliged to establish oppositional, alternative, synthetic, or complimentary models relating Jewish religion to his theory of natural selection. This book examines a range of leading nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American progressive Jewish thinkers, with the primary focus being rabbis Kohler, Wise, Hirsch, Krauskopf, and Hahn, although many others are covered. Key themes include the widespread commitment to universa...
Every year, Jews, and the folks who love them, gather around the Seder table with family and friends to read from the Haggadah, the story of Jewish ancestors who were enslaved in Egypt and their journey to freedom. It's a time not only to remember the past but also to make the Seder experience relevant, relatable, and personal, incorporating new and up-to-date interpretations and interests. It doesn't matter if you've read the entire Talmud ten times in Aramaic or if your religious education c...
'A deeply humane, learned and personal reflection on Jewish identity' Rowan Williams 'This inspiring book has made me a better Jew, one who understands more, who knows more' Daniel Finkelstein ‘This remarkable book takes us on a journey: geographic, historical, cultural, philosophical, political, autobiographical and, yes, religious' Michael Marmot Being Jewish Today gives an account of both the journey of a particular British Jew and the journey of millions of women and men through today’s p...
David Friedl nder (Deutsch-J dische Autoren Des 19. Jahrhunderts / Werkausgaben, #4)
The Making of a Reform Jewish Cantor (A Helen B. Schwartz Book in Jewish Studies)
by Judah M Cohen
The Making of a Reform Jewish Cantor provides an unprecedented look into the meaning of attaining musical authority among American Reform Jews at the turn of the 21st century. How do aspiring cantors adapt traditional musical forms to the practices of contemporary American congregations? What is the cantor's role in American Jewish religious life today? Cohen follows cantorial students at the School of Sacred Music, Hebrew Union College, over the course of their training, as they prepare to beco...
The Rise of Reform Judaism (JPS Anthologies of Jewish Thought)
by W.Gunther Plaut
This fiftieth anniversary edition of W. Gunther Plaut's classic volume on the beginnings of the Jewish Reform Movement is updated with a new introduction by Howard A. Berman. The Rise of Reform Judaism covers the first one hundred years of the movement, from the time of the eighteenth-century Jewish Enlightenment leader Moses Mendelssohn to the conclusion of the Augsburg synod in 1871. In these pages the founders who established liberal Judaism speak for themselves through their journals and pa...