Contention, Controversy, and Change : Evolutions and Revolutions in the Jewish Experience, Volume I / Eric Levine, Simcha Fishbane.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fishbane, Simcha, Editor.

Levine, Eric, Editor.

Series:

Touro College Press Books

Touro University Press

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judaism--History.

Judaism.

Judaism--Customs and practices.

Jews--Civilization.

Jews.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (371 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Conflict and change are fundamental elements of social reality and of the Jewish historical experience. This collection presents the work of a distinguished group of scholars exploring the themes of social, political, religious, intellectual, and institutional movements and change in Jewish history. These scholars demonstrate that social change throughout Jewish life has assumed many different manifestations, and can occur in revolutionary and dramatic ways as well as in more common gradual and evolutionary processes. In the first volume, the essays revolve around two themes: "Mobilizations and Contentious Politics," and "Social Trends, Communal and Institutional Change." The second volume is devoted to "Developments in Philosophy, Ideology, and Religious Practice." Taken together, these two volumes present scholarship rich with both historical and contemporary relevance, of interest to academics and students in Jewish studies and the social sciences, communal leaders and policy makers, and anyone intrigued by the Jewish experience.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Contributors

Foreword

Acknowledgments

I. Introduction

The Problematics of Jewish Collective Action: Community and Conflict and Change / Levine, Eric

II. Mobilizations, Contentious Politics, and Collective Action

Opportunity, Honor, and Action in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943 / Einwohner, Rachel L.

Musar and Modernity: The Case of Novaredok / Fishman, David E.

Exhibiting Dreyfus in America: The Jewish Museum of New York and the Soviet Jewry Movement / Katz, Maya Balakirsky

Ritualized Protest and Redemptive Politics: Cultural Consequences of the American Mobilization to Free Soviet Jewry / Kelner, Shaul

"A Strike in Heaven": The Montreal Rabbis' Walkout of 1935 and its Significance / Robinson, Ira

Between Militarism and Pacifism: Conscientious Objection and Draft Resistance in Israel / Zemlinskaya, Yulia

III. Social Trends, Communal and Institutional Change

Israeli and American Organizational Responses to Wife Abuse Among the Orthodox / Farber, Roberta Rosenberg

American Jewish Hospitals and "The Jewish Problem" in American Medical Education / Halperin, Edward C.

Emancipation, Modernity, and Jewish Identity in America / Verbit, Mervin F.

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

1-61811-463-8

OCLC:

1135579089