Contention, Controversy, and Change : : Evolutions and Revolutions in the Jewish Experience, Volume II / / 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 (285 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 -- IV. Developments in Philosophy, Ideology, and Religious Practice -- Moses Mendelssohn's Humanism / Gottlieb, Michah -- The Roots of Satmar Anti-Zionism: Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum, Zionism, and Hungarian Ultra-Orthodoxy / Kaplan, Zvi Jonathan -- The Late Zionism of Nathan Birnbaum: The Herzl Controversy Reconsidered / Olson, Jess -- Trade Unions, Strikes, and the Renewal of Halakhic Labor Law: Ideologies in the Rulings of Rabbis Kook, Uziel, and Feinstein / Brown, Benjamin -- Benjamin Brown / Basser, Herbert -- Behind the Purim Mask: The Symbolic Representation of the Rituals and Customs of Purim / Fishbane, Simcha -- Back to the Yeshiva: The Social Dynamics of an Orthodox Sabbath Morning Service / Fishbane, Simcha -- Historical Time and Liminal Time: A Chapter in Rabbinic Historiosophy / Rubin, Nissan -- Index