One people? : tradition, modernity, and Jewish unity
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One people? : tradition, modernity, and Jewish unity
（The Littman library of Jewish civilization）
Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1993
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-243) and index
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One People? is the first book-length study of the major problem confronting the Jewish future: the availability or otherwise of a way of mending the schisms between Reform and Orthodox Judaism, between religious and secular Jews in Israel, and between Israel itself and the diaspora-all of which have been deepened by the fierce and continuing controversy over the question of 'who is a Jew?'
One People? is a study of the background to this and related controversies. It traces the fragmentation of Jewry in the wake of the Enlightenment, the variety of Orthodox responses to these challenges, and the resources of Jewish tradition for handling diversity. Having set out the background to the intractability of the problems, it ends by examining the possibilities within Jewish thought that might make for convergence and reconciliation.
The Chief Rabbi employs a variety of disciplines-history, sociology, theology, and halakhic jurisprudence-to clarify a subject in which these dimensions are inextricably interwoven. He also explores key issues such as the underlying philosophy of Jewish law, and the nature of the collision between tradition and modern consciousness.
Written for the general reader as much as the academic one, this is a lucid and thought-provoking presentation of the dilemmas of Jewish Orthodoxy in modernity.
Table of Contents
Preface
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1 The Crisis of Contemporary Jewish Thought
Babel Inverted * Interpeting the Holocaust * The Significance of Israel * Understanding Peoplehood * Strategies of Jewish Thought * Beyond Pessimism and Optimism
2 The Birth of the Adjectival Jew
Secularization and the Persistence of Religion * Accommodation or Resistance? * The Jewish Experience of Modernity * The Adjectival Jew * Judaism and Denomination * Denomination and Mutual Misunderstanding * The Secularization of Unity * Orthodoxy and Jewish Unity * A Religious Idea in a Secular Age
3 Orthodoxy, History, and Culture
Conserving the Covenant * Interpeting Change * Developments and Variations * Torah as Code or Culture * Dual Sensibilities * Derekh eretz: Jewish or Secular? * Principle and Policy
4 Orthodoxy and Jewish Peoplehood
English and French Models of Emancipation * Eastern Europe * East European Echoes * The Hungarian and German Experience * Consequences of Secession * Contrary Forces
5 Tradition and Diversity
Aggadic Pluralism * Alternative Interpretations * The Search for Authority * Halakhic Universalism * The Search for Stringency * Moderation as a Religious Norm * Beyond Sectarianism
6 Inclusivism Halakhic
Inclusivism * Inclusivism: The Rationale of Covenant * The Cognitive Impact of Social Change * Inclusivity and the Desire to be Included * Inclusivism and Post-Holocaust Theologies
7 A Collision of Consciousness
Pluralism and Tradition * The Social Context of Pluralism * Halakhic Argument, Halakhic Decision * Pluralism or Inclusivism? * The Modern Self * The Traditional Jewish Self * The Autonomous Self and Judaism * Integrity and Function * Integrity and Tradition * The Paradox of Integrity
8 Schism?
Rosenzweig and Fackenheim * Hirschensohn and Kook * Two Jewries? * Resolutions * A Divided Unity
9 The Future of a People
The Rejection of Rejection * An Idea in Crisis * Against Convental Dualism * The Third Crisis * Pluralism, Exclusivism, Inclusivism * Inclusivist Imperatives
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