Response to modernity : a history of the Reform Movement in Judaism / Michael A. Meyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meyer, Michael A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reform Judaism--History.

Reform Judaism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (512 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Comprehensive and balanced history of the Reform Movement. The movement for religious reform in modern Judaism represents one of the most significant phenomena in Jewish history during the last two hundred years. It introduced new theological conceptions and innovations in liturgy and religious practice that affected millions of Jews, first in central and Western Europe and later in the United States. Today Reform Judaism is one of the three major branches of Jewish faith. Bringing to life the ideas, issues, and personalities that have helped to shape modern Jewry, Response to Modernity offers a comprehensive and balanced history of the Reform Movement, tracing its changing configuration and self-understanding from the beginnings of modernization in late 18th century Jewish thought and practice through Reform's American renewal in the 1970s.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Preface: Considerations of Historiography

Prologue: The Question of Precedents

1. Adapting Judaism to the Modern World

2. Ideological Ferment

3. Growth and Conflict on German Soil

4. European Diffusion

5. Consolidation and Further Advance

6. America: The Reform Movement's Land of Promise

7. "Classical" Reform Judaism

8. Reorientation

9. An International Movement

10. The New American Reform Judaism

Epilogue: In Quest of Continuity

Appendix: The Platforms of American Reform Judaism

Notes

Bibliographical Essay

Index

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J

K

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M

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O

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Y

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Notes:

Previously published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1988, in series: Studies in Jewish history.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814337554

0814337554

OCLC:

794443556