Recovering Jewishness : Modern Identities Reclaimed / Frederick S. Roden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roden, Frederick S., 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Identity.

Jews.

Judaism--History--Modern period, 1750-.

Judaism.

History.

Jewish converts.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Judaism and secularism.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Judaism--Modern period.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 277 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara : Praeger, [2016]

Contents:

Part 1 The Making of Modern Jewish Identity: "Race" versus "Religion" and the Mission of Judaism 15

1 Jews and Modernity: German and American Contexts 17

2 The Development of a Reform Theology and Practice 31

3 The Mission of Judaism: Proselytism and Conversion at the Turn of the Century 53

Part 2 Modernity Redefined: Nazism's Ethnic and Cultural Legacies 75

4 Mischlingkeit: Nazi Racial Law and the Invention of Mixed Identity 77

5 Contested Identities and Christian Representations 105

6 Reluctant Awakenings: Imperatives to Jewishness 131

Part 3 Post-Holocaust Jewish Identities 159

7 Being and Believing in the Aftermath of the Shoah 161

8 The New Proselytes and "Jews by Choice": From Mission of Israel to Missionary Judaism 177

9 Turns and Returns to Judaism: Modern and Postmodern Possibilities 197.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-270) and index.

ISBN:

9781440837746

1440837740

1440837759

9781440837753

OCLC:

922639639