ISBN:
9789047401452
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (421 pages)
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Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Print version Jewish identities : Fifty intellectuals answer Ben Gurion
DDC:
305.892/4
Keywords:
Ben-Gurion, David
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Jews Identity
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Jews Identity
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Ben-Gurion, David ; 1886-1973
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Jews ; Identity
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Jews ; Israel ; Identity
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Briefsammlung
Abstract:
Ten years after the creation of the state of Israel, David Ben Gurion wrote to 50 of the best thinkers and researchers in the world asking "Who is a Jew?" This publication contains the letters that answered this question, the original text of Ben Gurion, and an analysis by Shalow Tasavi.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Preface -- PART ONE: WHAT IS A JEW? -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE: ENTERING THE MODERN ERA -- The Decline of a Caste -- Orthodoxy as Conservative Change -- Non-Orthodox Judaism -- The Enlightenment in Eastern Europe -- Zionism and the Bund -- The Space of Identities -- CHAPTER TWO: BEN-GURION'S CORRESPONDENTS -- A Phoenix Generation -- Three Syndromes -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER THREE: ISRAELI-JEWISH IDENTITIES -- Introduction -- Revolution, Unity, and Elitism -- The Role of Religion -- Ethnic Divides -- Ideological Controversies -- Confictual Multiculturalism -- CHAPTER FOUR: JEWISH IDENTITIES IN THE DIASPORA-THE CASE OF AMERICA -- Social Achievements and Demographic Risks -- A Religion of Congregations -- The Future at Issue -- Cultural Ethnicity -- CHAPTER FIVE: DIVERGENCE AND CONVERGENCE OF JEWISH IDENTITIES -- Beyond Traditional Identity -- After Migration, the Holocaust, and Establishment of the State -- At the Dawn of the 21st Century -- "Family Resemblance" and Tensions -- PART TWO: WHO IS A JEW? -- Preamble -- HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION -- The Starting Point -- The Ger before the Destruction of the First Temple -- From Ezra and Nehemiah to the End of the Second Temple Period -- Conversion as Entrance into Abraham's Covenant -- BEN-GURION'S QUERY -- THE LETTERS OF THE SAGES -- 1. Shmuel Yossef Agnon -- 2. Alexander Altmann -- 3. Henry Baruk -- 4. Shmuel Hugo Bergmann -- 5. Isaiah Berlin -- 6. Yehuda Bourla -- 7. Haim Hermann Cohn -- 8. Louis Eliezer Halevi Finkelstein -- 9. Felix Frankfurter -- 10. Solomon B. Freehof -- 11. Shlomo Goren -- 12. Aryeh Leib Grossnass, Meir Lew, Abraham Rappoport, Meir Halevy Steinberg and Morris Swift -- 13. Zecharya Hacohen -- 14. Shalom Yitzhak Halevi -- 15. Hayim Hazaz -- 16. Yitzhak Isaac Halevi Herzog -- 17. Abraham Joshua Heschel.
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