ISBN:
9781472962065
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (385 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.696
Keywords:
Jews-Identity
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Prefce -- Part One: Being Both Jew and Jewish Today: You Can't Ignore the Context -- 1 The particular journey -- The Story as Autobiography -- Section One the Journey: Less a Rooted than a Routed People -- The First Stage -- A Paradigm Shift -- The Second Stage -- Three Festivals of Pilgrimage -- Pesach/Passover -- Shavuot/Pentecost -- Sukkot/Tabernacles -- The Journey through the Land and Prophetic Challenge23 -- In Judah and Babylon -- Conflict with Greece: Learning from Hellenistic Culture -- The Third Stage -- The Journey into Exile -- The Third Sibling -- Babylon -- Spain -- Eastern Europe -- The Fourth Stage -- Entering the Modern World -- The Goldene Medina -- The Fifth Stage -- On the Far Side of the Abyss -- Section Two Characteristics of the Journey -- One: Provisionality -- Two: Liminality -- Three: The Paradoxical -- Four: Uncertainty -- Pluralism -- 2 The shared context -- Section One Environment and Terrain -- The 'Third Presence' -- The Modern Western World -- Empire of the West -- Christianity and its Offspring, Secularity -- Six Working Definitions -- Modern -- Western -- Civilization and culture -- Terrain and environment -- Section Two the Jewish Contribution -- Judaism and Western Culture before 1500 -- Judaism and Western Culture from 1800 to 1945 -- Jews Uncorked -- Section Three the Environment Today -- On the Far Side of the Abyss -- The Kulturschock and the Post-modern Western World -- The Post-modern Landscape -- Communications -- Economics -- Science and technology -- Philosophy -- How Does it Feel to be a Jew in Britain Today? -- Part Two Being a Jew Today: Identity and Peoplehood -- 3 Israel as People -- Section One Identity: Inner and Outer Definitions of Who is a Jew -- The Uniqueness of Jewish Identity: the Inner Definition.
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