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New Jews : the end of the Jewish diaspora
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ISBN: 0814705367 1429414227 9781429414227 0814740170 9780814740170 0814740189 9780814740187 9780814705360 Year: 2005 Publisher: New York : New York University Press,

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For many contemporary Jews, Israel no longer serves as the Promised Land, the center of the Jewish universe and the place of final destination. In New Jews, Caryn Aviv and David Shneer provocatively argue that there is a new generation of Jews who don't consider themselves to be eternally wandering, forever outsiders within their communities and seeking to one day find their homeland. Instead, these New Jews are at home, whether it be in Buenos Aires, San Francisco or Berlin, and are rooted within communities of their own choosing. Aviv and Shneer argue that Jews have come to the end of their diaspora; wandering no more, today's Jews are settled.In this wide-ranging book, the authors take us around the world, to Moscow, Jerusalem, New York and Los Angeles, among other places, and find vibrant, dynamic Jewish communities where Jewish identity is increasingly flexible and inclusive. New Jews offers a compelling portrait of Jewish life today.

Remembering Abraham : culture, memory, and history in the Hebrew Bible.
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ISBN: 0195177967 9780195177961 0199784620 1423756509 9786611197094 019803959X 1281197092 Year: 2005 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press

To the end of the earth : a history of the crypto-Jews of New Mexico
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ISBN: 1281776335 9786613791016 0231503180 9780231503181 9780231129367 023112936X 9780231129374 0231129378 Year: 2005 Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press,

Why aren't Jewish women circumcised? : gender and covenant in Judaism
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ISBN: 1282356283 9786612356285 052092049X 1598755897 9780520920491 1423717279 9781423717270 9781598755893 9780520212503 0520212509 9780520244580 0520244583 9781282356283 6612356286 Year: 2005 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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Why aren't Jewish women circumcised? This improbable question, first advanced by anti-Jewish Christian polemicists, is the point of departure for this wide-ranging exploration of gender and Jewishness in Jewish thought. With a lively command of a wide range of Jewish sources-from the Bible and the Talmud to the legal and philosophical writings of the Middle Ages to Enlightenment thinkers and modern scholars-Shaye J. D. Cohen considers the varied responses to this provocative question and in the process provides the fullest cultural history of Jewish circumcision available.

Jewish law and identity : academic essays
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ISBN: 1596890479 1596890460 9781596890473 9781596890466 Year: 2005 Volume: 2 Publisher: Cheltenham : Hermit Kingdom Press,

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