Secularism in question : Jews and Judaism in modern times / edited by Ari Joskowicz and Ethan Katz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Joskowicz, Ari, editor.

Katz, Ethan, editor, author.

Series:

Jewish culture and contexts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judaism and secularism--History.

Judaism and secularism.

Religion and sociology.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

vii, 409 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]

Contents:

Rethinking Jews and secularism / Ari Joskowicz and Ethan Katz

"Our Rabbi Baruch" : Spinoza and radical Jewish enlightenment / Daniel B. Schwartz

Reading Mendelssohn in late Ottoman Palestine : an Islamic theory of Jewish secularism / Jonathan Marc Gribetz

Tradition and the hidden: Hannah Arendt's secularization of Jewish mysticism / Vivian Liska

Messianism without messiah : messianism, religion, and secularization in modern Jewish thought / Christoph Schulte

In the name of the devil : reading Walter Benjamin's "Agesilaus Santander" / Galili Shahar

The secular and its dissonances in modern Jewish literature / Michal Ben-Horin

Civil society, secularization, and modernity among Jews in turn-of-the-century Eastern Europe / Scott Ury

Secular French nationhood and its discontents : Jews as Muslims and religion as race in occupied France / Ethan Katz

Galician Haskalah and the discourse of Schwärmerei / Rachel Manekin

Secularism and neo-orthodoxy : conflicting strategies in Modern Orthodox fiction / Eva Lezzi

Secularism and nationalism : the modern halakhic discourse on the identity and boundaries of the Jewish community / Arye Edrei

Between supersessionism and atavism : toward a neo-secular view of religion / David N. Myers

Secularism, the Christian ambivalence toward the Jews, and the notion of exile / Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin

"Eleven calendars" : beyond secular time / Andrea Schatz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780812247275

0812247272

OCLC:

904505700