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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter ASP eBook Package 2016
• HerausgeberIn: Fishbane, Simcha,
• Author: Levine, Eric,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Touro University Press
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (370 p.)

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.

Table of 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