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"Who Is A Jew?" Reflections...
Jewish identity is a perennial concern, as Jews seek to define the major features and status of those who "belong," while at the same time draw distinctions between individuals and groups on the "inside" and those on the "outside." From a variety of perspectives, scholarly as well as confessional, there is intense interest among non-Jewish and Jewish commentators alike in the basic question, "Who is a Jew?"This collection of articles draws diverse historical, cultural, and religious insights from scholars who represent a wide range of academic and theological disciplines. Some of the authors d
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monografia Rebiun29843722 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun29843722 m o d cr#-n--------- 150630t20142014inu o 00 0 eng d 2015410410 1-61249-345-9 UPVA 997927811003706 UAM 991007723828104211 CBUC 991009637727506719 CBUC 991003535358306714 CBUC 991000752899306712 CBUC 991010498467706709 UCAR 991008233441404213 CBUC 991010498467706709 CBUC 991012944081206708 CBUC 991010498467706709 CUNEF 991000374652708131 MdBmJHUP MdBmJHUP eng 305.892/4 23 "Who Is A Jew?" Reflections on History, Religion, and Culture editor, Leonard J. Greenspoon (The Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization) Lafayette, Indiana Purdue University Press West 2014 Lafayette, Indiana Lafayette, Indiana Purdue University Press West 2014 1 online resource (323 p.) 1 online resource (323 p.) Text txt computer c online resource cr Studies in Jewish civilization 1070-8510 volume 25 "Proceedings of the twenty-fifth annual symposium of the Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization and the Harris Center for Judaic Studies, October 28-29, 2012"--First preliminary page Includes bibliographical references Cover; Copyright; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Editor's Introduction; Contributors; Traces of Race: Defining Jewishness in America; It's All in the Memes; Judging and Protecting Jewish Identity in Shaare Tefila Congregation v. Cobb; Who Is a Jew? Reflections of an American Jewish Lawyer on the British Supreme Court Ruling Invalidating Jewish Religious Law; Inventing Jewish History, Culture, and Genetic Identity in Modern New Mexico; "Jewish Genes": Ancient Priests and Modern Jewish Identity; Conversion in Transition: Practical, Conceptual, and Halachic Changes in Israel Who Is a Jew in Israel?Who Should Be a Jew? Conversion in the Diaspora and in the Modern Nation-State; Who Is a Samaritan?; The Bene Israel and the "Who Is a Jew" Controversy in Israel; Have We Ever Known What a Jew-or Judaean-Is?; Will the "Real" Jew Please Stand Up! Karaites, Israelites, Kabbalists, Messianists, and the Politics of Identity; German-Jewish Identity: Problematic Then, Problematic Now; "I Sometimes Think That I Grew Up on a Different Planet": The Assimilated Jewish Community of the Warsaw Ghetto in the Letters of Wanda Lubelska and Hala Szwambaum Creating a Community: Who Can Belong to the Reform Synagogue?The Birthright Israel Generation: Being a Jewish Young Adult in Contemporary America Jewish identity is a perennial concern, as Jews seek to define the major features and status of those who "belong," while at the same time draw distinctions between individuals and groups on the "inside" and those on the "outside." From a variety of perspectives, scholarly as well as confessional, there is intense interest among non-Jewish and Jewish commentators alike in the basic question, "Who is a Jew?"This collection of articles draws diverse historical, cultural, and religious insights from scholars who represent a wide range of academic and theological disciplines. Some of the authors d English Jews- Identity Jews- Identity- Congresses Conference proceedings Electronic books Greenspoon, Leonard J. Leonard Jay) edt University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Harris Center for Judaic Studies Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization Klutznick-Harris Symposium 25th :. 2012 :. Omaha, Neb.) 1-55753-692-9 Studies in Jewish civilization 25