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Arnold M. Eisen

Rethinking Modern Judaism

Ritual, Commandment, Community

347 pages, 8 halftones  6 x 9  © 1998
Series: Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism

Cloth $42.50

ISBN: 9780226195285   Published August 1998

Paper $28.00

ISBN: 9780226195292   Published December 1999

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1: Founding Theories of Modernity and the Critique of Jewish Practice
2: Twentieth-Century Theories of Modernity and the Study of Jewish Practice
3: The Distinctiveness of Modern Jewish Practice
4: The Politics of Jewish Ritual Observance
5: New Reasons for Old Commandments: The Strategy of Symbolic Explanation
6: Nostalgia as Modern Jewish Mitzvah
7: Buber, Rosenzweig, and the Authority of the Commandments
8: The Reconstruction of Jewish Tradition in Twentieth-Century America
Conclusion
Notes
Index
Awards
  • Koret Jewish Book Award
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