The wondering Jew : Israel and the search for Jewish identity / Micah Goodman, translated by Eylon Levy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goodman, Micah, author.

Contributor:

Levy, Eylon, translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judaism--Social aspects.

Judaism.

Jews--Israel--Identity.

Jews.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Haven, Connecticut ; London, England : Yale University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

Text in English, translated from the Hebrew.

Summary:

A celebrated Israeli author explores the roots of the divide between religion and secularism in Israel today, and offers a path to bridging the divide Zionism began as a movement full of contradictions, between a pull to the past and a desire to forge a new future. Israel has become a place of fragmentation, between those who sanctify religious tradition and those who wish to escape its grasp. Now, a new middle ground is emerging between religious and secular Jews who want to engage with their heritage—without being restricted by it or losing it completely. In this incisive book, acclaimed author Micah Goodman explores Israeli Judaism and the conflict between religion and secularism, one of the major causes of political polarization throughout the world. Revisiting traditional religious sources and seminal works of secularism, he reveals that each contains an openness to learn from the other’s messages. Goodman challenges both orthodoxies, proposing a new approach to bridge the divide between religion and secularism and pave a path toward healing a society torn asunder by extremism.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Introduction: A Twenty- First-Century Dilemma

PART I THE CLASH OF IDENTITIES THAT RUPTURED ISRAELI JUDAISM

Introduction

1 The Great Revolt

2 The New Orthodoxy

PART II ALTERNATIVE SECULARISM

3 Cultural Secularism

4 Mystical Secularism

5 Halakhic Secularism

6 Is Secular Judaism Still Judaism?

PART III ALTERNATIVE RELIGIOSITY

7 Messianic Religious Zionism

8 Non- Diasporic Judaism

9 Sephardic Rabbis and Traditionalist Judaism

PART IV TOWARD A REVITALIZED JUDAISM

10 Parallel Worlds, Parallel Divisions

11 Self- Confidence and Fears About Identity

12 The Israeli Middle Ground

Afterword: A Digital- Free Sabbath

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

0-300-25599-3

OCLC:

1204139875