Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Jews. --- Jews --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Die Arbeit bietet die erste umfangreiche, empirisch fundierte Religionsgeschichtsschreibung der jüdischen Gemeinden in China und Hong Kong nach der Kulturrevolution. Zahlreiche Synagogen entstehen, das jüdisch-religiöse Leben pluralisiert und partikularisiert sich wie vorher noch nie, trotz chinesischer Vorsicht gegenüber ausländischen Religionen und geschichtlicher Ereignisse wie der Übergabe Hong Kongs an die VR China. Zugleich ist das Werk auch die erste religionswissenschaftliche Beschäftigung mit Religion und Expatriates, m.a.W. mit Religion unter den Bedingungen kurzfristiger, nicht auf Integration hin ausgerichteter Migration. Die aufgeführten religiösen Transformationen beweisen, dass die religiöse Einstellung der Menschen in der Ferne eine Eigendynamik entwickelt und sich nicht nur als Nebenwirkung im Prozess der Verfolgung anderer Zielsetzungen wie die Integration oder der Kampf um staatliche Anerkennung verändert. Die Ergebnisse werfen auch allgemein ein neues Licht auf diasporabezogene Prozesse und erweitern klassische Konzepte wie ,Heimat' oder ,diasporisches Bewusstsein'.

Jews --- Social conditions. --- China --- Ethnic relations. --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Focusing on a set of Jewish communities, Robert Chazan tells how, by the eleventh century, French Jews had created for themselves a role as local merchants and moneylenders in adapting to the political, economic, and social limits imposed on them. French society, striving to become more powerful and civilized, was willing to extend aid and protection to the Jews in return for general stimulation of trade and urban life and for the immediate profit realized from taxation. While the authorities were relatively successful in protecting the Jews from others, there was no power to impose itself between the Jews and their protectors. The political and social well-being of the Jews was, therefore, dependent on the will of the governing authorities who taxed their holdings and regulated their activities. During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the position of the Jews was constantly under attack by reform elements in the church concerned with Jewish moneylending and blasphemous materials in Jewish books; these reformers were eventually devoted to a serious missionizing effort within the Jewish community. The Jews' situation was further complicated by deep popular animosity, expressing itself in a damaging set of slanders and occasionally in physical violence. Despite the impressive achievements of the Jews in medieval northern France, by the thirteenth century their community was increasingly constricted; and in 1306, they were expelled from royal France by Philip IV. Overcoming the handicap of a lack of copious source material, Chazan analyzes the Jews' political status, their relations with key elements of Christian society, their demographic development, their economic outlets, their internal organization, and their attitudes toward the Christian environment. As it highlights aspects of French society from an unusual perspective, Medieval Jewry in Northern France should be of special interest to the historian of medieval France as well as to the student of Jewish history. This story is also significant for all who are fascinated by the capacity of human groups to respond and adapt creatively to a hostile and limiting environment.

Jews --- History. --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- European history

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This book looks at the philosophical consideration of Jewish existence in our time, as reflected in Jewish education, its alternative visions, its purposes and instrumentalities, the values it should serve, and the personal and social character it ought to foster. Prevalent conceptions and practices of Jewish education are neither sufficiently reflective nor thoroughgoing enough to meet the multiple challenges that the world now poses to Jewish existence and continuity. New efforts are needed to develop an education of the future that will honor the riches of the Jewish past and grasp the opportunities of fruitful interactions with the general culture of the present. To promote such efforts, six leading scholars in this book formulate their variant visions of an ideal Jewish education for the contemporary world. This book also translates these visions into educational practice and, finally, articulates a vision abstracted from a case study of a school's ongoing practice.

Jews --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Education --- Philosophy. --- Arts and Humanities --- Religion

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This collection of newly-commissioned essays covers the major areas of thought in contemporary Jewish studies, including considerations of religious differences, sociological, philosophical and gender issues, geographical diversity and inter-faith relations.

Judaism. --- Jews. --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Jews --- Religions --- Religion --- History