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"The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have been a period of mass production and proliferation of Jewish ideas, and have witnessed major changes in Jewish life and stimulated major debates. The New Jewish Canon offers a conceptual roadmap to make sense of such rapid change. With over eighty excerpts from key primary source texts and insightful corresponding essays by leading scholars, on topics of history and memory, Jewish politics and the public square, religion and religiosity, and identities and communities, The New Jewish Canon promises to start conversations from the seminar room to the dinner table. The New Jewish Canon is both text and textbook of the Jewish intellectual and communal zeitgeist for the contemporary period and the recent past, canonizing our most important ideas and debates of the past two generations; and just as importantly, stimulating debate and scholarship about what is yet to come"-- Provided by publisher.

Title The New Jewish canon : ideas & debates 1980-2015 / edited by Yehuda Kurtzer and Claire E. Sufrin.
Contributors Kurtzer, Yehuda (editor)
Sufrin, Claire E. (editor)
Publisher Boston : Academic Studies Press
Creation Date 2020
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index.
Content The New Jewish Canon -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction--The State of Jewish Ideas: Towards a New Jewish Canon -- I. Jewish Politics and the Public Square -- 1. Michael Walzer, Exodus and Revolution -- 2. George Steiner, "Our Homeland, the Text," 1985
Judith Butler, "Remarks to Brooklyn College on BDS," 2013 -- 3. Jonathan Woocher, Sacred Survival -- 4. Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949 and The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited Ari Shavit, "Survival of the Fittest? An Interview with Benny Morris" and "Lydda, 1948" -- 5. Irving Greenberg vs. Meir Kahane, Public Debate at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale -- 6. Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Judaism, Human Values, and the Jewish State -- 7. Israeli Knesset Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty Aharon Barak, "A Judge on Judging: The Role of a Supreme Court in a Democracy" -- 8. Aharon Lichtenstein, "On the Murder of Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin z"l" -- 9. Aviezer Ravitzky, Messianism, Zionism, and Jewish Religious Radicalism -- 10. The Israeli Supreme Court sitting as the High Court of Justice: Horev v. Minister of Transportation, 1997 The Israeli Supreme Court sitting as the High Court of Justice: Baruch Marzel v. Jerusalem District Police Commander, Mr. Aharon Franco, 2002 -- 11. Samuel G. Freedman, Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry -- 12. Breaking the Silence Testimonies -- 13. Steven M. Cohen and Jack Wertheimer, "Whatever Happened to the Jewish People?" -- 14. Yitzhak Shapira and Yosef Elitzur, Torat HaMelekh -- 15. Moshe Halbertal, "The Goldstone Illusion" -- 16. Peter Beinart, "The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment" -- 17. Daniel Gordis, "When Balance Becomes Betrayal" Sharon Brous, "Lowering the Bar" -- 18. Matti Friedman, "An Insider's Guide to the Most Important Story on Earth" -- II. History, Memory, and Narrative -- 1. David Hartman, "Auschwitz or Sinai?" -- 2. Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory -- 3. Emil Fackenheim, To Mend the World -- 4. Robert M. Cover, "The Supreme Court, 1982 Term--Foreword: Nomos and Narrative" -- 5. Kahan Commission -- 6. Amos Oz, In the Land of Israel -- 7. David Biale, Power and Powerlessness in Jewish History -- 8. Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech -- 9. Primo Levi, The Drowned and the Saved -- 10. Irving (Yitz) Greenberg, "The Third Great Cycle of Jewish History" -- 11. Deborah Lipstadt, Denying the Holocaust Yaffa Eliach, There Once Was a World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok -- 12. Haym Soloveitchik, "Rupture and Reconstruction" -- 13. Naomi Seidman, "Elie Wiesel and the Scandal of Jewish Rage" -- 14. Dabru Emet -- 15. Jonathan D. Sarna, American Judaism: A History -- 16. David Weiss Halivni, Breaking the Tablets: Jewish Theology After the Shoah -- 17. Ruth Wisse, "How Not to Remember and How Not to Forget" -- 18. Yossi Klein Halevi, Like Dreamers -- III. Religion and Religiosity -- 1. Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Halakhic Man -- 2. Rabbi Yehoshua Yeshaya Neuwirth, Shemirath Shabbath Kehilchathah -- 3. The Complete Artscroll Siddur -- 4. David Hartman, A Living Covenant: The Innovative Spirit in Traditional Judaism -- 5. Neil Gillman, Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theology for the Modern Jew Eugene Borowitz, Renewing the Covenant: A Theology for the Postmodern Jew -- 6. Rachel Adler, "In Your Blood, Live: Re- visions of a Theological Purity" -- 7. Rodger Kamenetz, The Jew in the Lotus: A Poet's Rediscovery of Jewish Identity in Buddhist India -- 8. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, Genesis: The Beginning of Desire -- 9. Abraham Joshua Heschel, Susannah Heschel (ed.), Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity -- 10. Noam Zion and David Dishon, A Different Night: The Family Participation Haggadah -- 11. Mendel Shapiro, "Qeri'at Ha-Torah by Women: A Halakhic Analysis" -- 12. Jonathan Sacks, The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations -- 13. Rav Shagar, Broken Vessels -- 14. Arthur Green, Radical Judaism: Rethinking God and Tradition Daniel Landes, "Hidden Master" Arthur Green and Daniel Landes, "God, Torah, and Israel: An Exchange" -- 15. Elie Kaunfer, Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us About Building Vibrant Jewish Communities -- IV. Identities and Comm -- 1. Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Letter to the Jewish Community of Teaneck -- 2. Blu Greenberg, On Women and Judaism: A View from Tradition -- 3. Harold Kushner, When Bad Things Happen to Good People Alan Lew, This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation -- 4. Evelyn Torton Beck (ed.), Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology Susannah Heschel (ed.), On Being a Jewish Feminist -- 5. Paul Cowan with Rachel Cowan, Mixed Blessings: Overcoming the Stumbling Blocks in an Interfaith Marriage -- 6. Judith Plaskow, Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective -- 7. Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Deborah, Golda, and Me: Being Female and Jewish in America -- 8. Barry Kosmin, Highlights of the CJF 1990 National Jewish Population Survey "A Portrait of Jewish Americans," Pew Research Center -- 9. Joseph Telushkin, Jewish Literacy Paula Hyman, "Who is an Educated Jew?" Vanessa Ochs, "Ten Jewish Sensibilities" -- 10. Yaakov Levado, "Gayness and God: Wrestlings of an Orthodox Rabbi" -- 11. Leonard Fein, "Smashing Idols and Other Prescriptions for Jewish Continuity" -- 12. Steven M. Cohen and Arnold M. Eisen, The Jew Within: Self, Family, and Community in America -- 13. A. B. Yehoshua, "The Meaning of Homeland" -- 14. Elliot N. Dorff, Daniel S. Nevins, and Avram I. Reisner, "Homosexuality, Human Dignity and Halakhah: A Combined Responsum for the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards" -- 15. Noah Feldman, "Orthodox Paradox" Jay Lefkowitz, "The Rise of Social Orthodoxy: A Personal Account" -- 16. Tamar Biala and Nechama Weingarten- Mintz (eds.), Dirshuni: Midrashei Nashim -- 17. Leon Wieseltier, "Language, Identity, and the Scandal of American Jewry" -- 18. Ruth Calderon, "The Heritage of All Israel" -- 19. Rick Jacobs, "The Genesis of Our Future" -- Contributing Authors -- Permissions -- Index
Series Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah
Extent xxvii, 463 pages
24 cm.
Language English
National Library system number 997008883950005171

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