Contention, Controversy, and Change : : Evolutions and Revolutions in the Jewish Experience, Volume I /

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

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....

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

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