Jewish Identities: Fifty Intellectuals Answer Ben-Gurion

Name: Jewish Identities: Fifty Intellectuals Answer Ben-Gurion
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By Eliezer Ben-Rafael

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Who and what is a Jew? Is there any common denominator between an ultra-Orthodox rabbi of an Israeli North African community and a Berkeley academic of the Movement for a Secular and Humanistic Judaism? Do Jews the world over convergre and emphasize their unity or do they share contrasting concepts of collective identity? Part I of this book presents a systematic discussion of Jewish identities in this era of (post)modernity. The opportunity is offered by a set of invaluable texts, which appear in Part II. These texts about Jewish identity were invited, in 1958, by Ben-Gurion from 50 intellectuals - rabbis, writers, scientists and lawyers -, from the Diaspora and Israel, representative of the principal streams of contemporary Jewish thought.

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Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 394
Release Date:: 2002-09-12
Publication Date:: 2002-09-12
Publisher:: Brill
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 9004125353
ISBN13:: 9789004125353
Weight:: 848 g
Height:: 166 cm
Width:: 242 cm
Thickness:: 30 cm

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