Suchergebnisse

Introduction: Continuities and discontinuities in the formation of a transoceanic diaspora, 1391-1789 / David Graizbord -- Who were the Jews of the pre-modern siaspora? / Jonathan Ray -- Ḥayei ha-Torah (The Life of Torah): rabbinic culture and the pre-modern heritage preserved and adapted / David Graizbord -- Eretz Yisrael (The Land of Israel): the homeland, its Jews, and their orienting influence / David Graizbord -- 'Umot ha-'Olam (The Nations of the Earth): relations with the other(s) -- Iberian Watersheds: the crisis of judeoconversos and the evolution of anti-Jewish bigotry / David Graizbord -- Iberian judeoconversos and Jews in medieval and early modern Iberian polemical tracts / Axel Kaplan-Szyld -- Jews and their non-Jewish hosts in an evolving diaspora / David Graizbord -- Kol Yisrael 'Arevim Zeh la-Zeh ("All Israel are Mutually Responsible"): self-government, economy, and the rise of new diasporic centers -- The Jews of the Italian Peninsula / Serena di Nepi -- The rise of new diasporic centers / Jessica Vance Roitman -- Tsena u-Re'ena (Go Out and See): the world of Jewish books / Noam Sienna -- Ḳabalah (Tradition): early modern Jewish mysticism as a devotional matrix of Jewish life / Roni Weinstein -- Minhagim: a window on popular culture / Yaron Nisenholz -- 'Erev Rav (A Mixed Multitude): class, gender, and ideological cleavages / Stanley Mirvis -- Ḥasidut and Haskalah (Pietism and Enlightenment): toward the watershed of modernity / Stanley Mirvis

"This book analyzes American Jewish millennials and explains their behavior in terms of the history of American Jewishness. The author shows that Zionism serves as a means by which American Jewish millennials depart from earlier American Judaism and construct alternate sense of purpose and solidarity"--Provided by publisher