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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Myers, David N., Editor.

Seidler-Feller, Shaul, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Jews--Civilization.

Jews.

Judaism--History.

Judaism.

Judaism--21st century.

Rabbinical literature--History and criticism.

Rabbinical literature.

Contemporary Judaism.

Ethics.

Feminist literary critique.

Hasidism.

History of Israel.

Holocaust.

Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Jewish law.

Jewish life.

Legal theory.

Talmud.

Torah.

antisemitism.

controversy.

demography.

festschrift.

folk art.

modern religion.

philosophy.

politics.

rabbinic literature.

religious practice.

sociology.

theology.

tradition.

zionism.

Local Subjects:

Bible.

Contemporary Judaism.

Ethics.

Feminist literary critique.

Hasidism.

History of Israel.

Holocaust.

Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Jewish law.

Jewish life.

Legal theory.

Talmud.

Torah.

antisemitism.

controversy.

demography.

festschrift.

folk art.

modern religion.

philosophy.

politics.

rabbinic literature.

religious practice.

sociology.

theology.

tradition.

zionism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (446 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Swimming against the Current comprises a collection of essays celebrating the career and achievements of Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller, who served as Executive Director of Hillel at UCLA for forty years and continues to be an influential leader in the Los Angeles and wider American Jewish community. These articles, like the honoree, challenge intellectual convention and accepted wisdom by breaking new ground in how they approach their subjects. They are divided into four categories that hold special interest for Seidler-Feller: Bible and Talmud, Jewish Thought and Theology, Modern Jewish History and Sociology, and Zionism and Jewish Politics. The volume also includes a sketch of Seidler-Feller’s life and work, a bibliography of his publications, and tributes by students and colleagues.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: A Portrait of Chaim Seidler-Feller

Bibliography of Publications by Chaim Seidler-Feller

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

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

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

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

Meira Wolkenfeld

Adam Greenwald

Mayim Bialik

Jonathan Jacoby

Laurie L. Levenson

Edward Feld

David Berner

Saul Andron

List of Contributors

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mai 2020)

ISBN:

1-64469-308-9

OCLC:

1152256811