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Piety and power : the world of Jewish fundamentalism
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ISBN: 0809076055 9780809076055 Year: 1993 Publisher: New York Hill and Wang


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The Eternal Dissident : Rabbi Leonard I. Beerman and the Radical Imperative to Think and Act
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ISBN: 0520969790 0520297458 9780520969797 Year: 2018 Publisher: Oakland University of California Press

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"The Eternal Dissident offers rare insight into one of the most inspiring and controversial Reform rabbis of the twentieth century, Leonard Beerman, renowned both for his eloquent and challenging sermons and for his unrelenting commitment to social action. Beerman was a man of powerful word and action--a probing intellectual and stirring orator, as well as a nationally known opponent of McCarthyism, racial injustice, and Israeli policy in the occupied territories. The shared source of Beerman's thought and activism was the moral imperative of the Hebrew prophets, which he believed bestowed upon the Jewish people the role of engaging in 'eternal dissident.' This volume brings Beerman to life through a selection of his most powerful writings, followed by commentaries from notable scholars, rabbis, and public personalities that speak to the quality and ongoing relevance of Beerman's work.


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De strijd om God : een geschiedenis van het fundamentalisme
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ISBN: 902343904X Year: 2000 Publisher: Amsterdam Bezige Bij

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Aan de hand van gedetailleerde en boeiende verhalen over uiteenlopende stromingen als het protestantse fundamentalisme in de Verenigde Staten, het joodse fundamentalisme in Israël en het moslimfundamentalisme in Egypte (soennitisch) en Iran (sjiitisch), toont Armstrong hoe verwant deze stromingen zijn. Ze maakt duidelijk hoe al deze strijdbare bewegingen voortkwamen uit angst voor de moderne wereld - en vaak uit vijandschap en bedreiging door mainstream society. Armstrong onderzoekt de westerse omhelzing van de rede als de enige weg naar waarheid, de fundamentalistische antwoorden daarop, en de eruit voortvloeiende culturele botsingen. Ze ziet de fundamentalistische bewegingen eerder als vernieuwend en modern dan als groeperingen die ons terug in de tijd willen werpen, en ziet hun falen vooral in religieuze termen.


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Hakol Kol Yaakov : The Joel Roth Jubilee Volume
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ISBN: 9004420460 Year: 2021 Publisher: Brill

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Hakol Kol Yaakov: The Joel Roth Jubilee Volume contains twenty articles dedicated to Rabbi Joel Roth, written by colleagues and students. Some are academic articles in the general area of Talmud and Rabbinics, while others are rabbinic responsa that treat an issue of contemporary Jewish law. In his career, Joel Roth has been known as a scholar and teacher of Talmud par excellence, and, without question, as the preeminent decisor of Jewish law for the Conservative movement of his generation. In the meticulous style and approach of the Talmud scholarship of his generation, Roth painstakingly and precisely assayed the vast array of rabbinic legal sources, and proceeded to apply these in pedagogy, in scholarship and particularly in the production of contemporary legal responsa. The articles in this volume reflect the unique and integrated voice and vision that Joel Roth has brought to the American Jewish community.

Humor, vrijheid en wijsheid van de joden
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ISBN: 9052401624 9789052401621 Year: 1992 Volume: vol *5 Publisher: Antwerpen Baarn Hadewijch


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The sons of scripture : the Karaites in Poland and Lithuania in the twentieth century
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ISBN: 3110425262 3110425254 3110487306 Year: 2015 Publisher: De Gruyter

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Drawing on the variety of archival sources in the host of European and Oriental languages, the book focuses on the history, ethnography, and convoluted ethnic identity of the Polish-Lithuanian Karaites. The vanishing community of the Karaites, a non-Talmudic Turkic-speaking Jewish minority that had been living in Eastern Europe since the late Middle Ages, developed a unique ethnographic culture and religious tradition. The book offers the first comprehensive study of the dramatic history of the Polish-Lithuanian Karaite community in the twentieth century. Especially important is the analysis of the dejudaization (or Turkicization) of the community that saved the Karaites from horrors of the Holocaust.

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