Swimming Against the Current : Reimagining Jewish Tradition in the Twenty-First Century. Essays in Honor of Chaim Seidler-Feller / edited by Shaul Seidler-Feller and David N. Myers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Seidler-Feller, Shaul, editor.

Myers, David N., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judaism--History.

Judaism.

Judaism--21st century.

Jews--Civilization.

Jews.

Rabbinical literature--History and criticism.

Rabbinical literature.

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Seidler-Feller, Chaim, 1947-.

Seidler-Feller, Chaim.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (378 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Academic Studies Press, [2020]

Summary:

Swimming against theCurrent comprises essays celebrating theachievements of Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller. These articles, like the honoree,challenge intellectual convention and accepted wisdom, focusing on fourcategories: Bible and Talmud, Jewish Thought and Theology, ModernJewish History and Sociology, and Zionism and Jewish Politics.

Contents:

Cover

Half-Title Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Introduction: A Portrait of Chaim Seidler-Feller

Bibliography of Publications by Chaim Seidler-Feller

Part I: The Sources of the Tradition: Bible and Talmud

Order as Meaning: Juxtaposition in the Bible

Behind Every Great Prophet Is a Woman: The Women in Exodus 2 in Talmudic Interpretation

Study of Torah as a Discourse of Violence: Milḥamtah shel Torah, Variations on a Theme

Discipleship in Rabbinic Literature

Secular Legal Paradigms and Talmudic Law: Rav Tsa'ir on Legal Loopholes

Part II: Jewish Thought and Theology

Buber, Scholem, and the Me'or enayim: Another Perspective on a Great Controversy

On Not Finishing the Work: A Commentary on Avot 2:16

The Faith of Abraham

The Ascent and Decline of the "Historical Jew"

Divine Command Theory in Jewish Law and Ethics

Part III: Modern Jewish History and Sociology

Polio Season: Transformations of Philip Roth's "Jewish Mother" from Sophie Portnoy to Marcia Steinberg

Go to School, Work, Marry, Have Children, Be Jewish: Jewish Women and Jewish Men in the United States and Israel

The Day of Reckoning: Max Radin and the Rule of Law in International War Crimes

Antisemitism: Reflections and Ruminations

Part IV: Zionism and Jewish Politics

Sovereignty and Ethics in the Thought of Rabbi Ḥayyim David Halevi

Rabbi Shlomo Goren on the Maimonidean Law of Siege: An Essay on the Ethics of Jewish Warfare

Invoking the Indigenous, for and against Israel

Jewish Folk Art and Ideology: The Śimḥat Torah Flag through the Ages

Student Tributes

Meira Wolkenfeld

Adam Greenwald

Mayim Bialik

Jonathan Jacoby

Colleague Tributes

Laurie L. Levenson

Edward Feld

David Berner

Saul Andron

List of Contributors.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Seidler-Feller, Shaul Swimming Against the Current

ISBN:

9781644693759

1644693755

OCLC:

1152256811