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This volume takes a fresh view of the role representations of the past play in the construction of Jewish identity. Its central theme is that the study of how Jews construct the past can help in interpreting how they understand the nature of their Jewishness. The individual chapters illuminate the ways in which Jews responded to and made use of the past. If Jews' choices of what to include, emphasize, omit, and invent in their representation of the past is a fundamental variable, then this volume contributes to the creation of a more nuanced approach to the construction of the histories of Jews and their thought.

Jews --- Identity, Jewish --- Jewish identity --- Jewishness --- Jewish law --- Jewish nationalism --- Identity. --- Ethnic identity --- Race identity --- Legal status, laws, etc.

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Jewish identity is a perennial concern, as Jews seek to define the major features and status of those who "belong," while at the same time draw distinctions between individuals and groups on the "inside" and those on the "outside." From a variety of perspectives, scholarly as well as confessional, there is intense interest among non-Jewish and Jewish commentators alike in the basic question, "Who is a Jew?"This collection of articles draws diverse historical, cultural, and religious insights from scholars who represent a wide range of academic and theological disciplines. Some of the authors d

Jews --- Identity, Jewish --- Jewish identity --- Jewishness --- Jewish law --- Jewish nationalism --- Identity. --- Identity --- Ethnic identity --- Race identity --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Social groups: religious groups & communities

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This book consists of a range of essays covering the complex crises, tensions and dilemmas but also the positive potential in the meeting of Jews with Western culture. In numerous contexts and through the work of fascinating individuals and thinkers, the work examines some of the consequences of political, cultural and personal rupture, as well as the manifold ways in which various Jewish intellectuals, politicians (and occasionally spies!) sought to respond to these ruptures and carve out new, sometimes profound, sometimes fanciful, options of thought and action. It also delves critically into the attacks on liberal and Enlightenment humanism. In almost all the essays the fragility of things is palpably present and the book touches on some of the ironies, problematics and functions of responses to that condition. The work mirrors the author's ongoing fascination with the always fraught, fragile and creatively fecund confrontation of Jews (and others) with European modernity, its history, politics, culture and self-definition. In a time of increasing anxiety and feelings of fragility, this work may be helpful in understanding how people at an earlier (and sometimes contemporary) period sought to come to terms with a similar predicament.

Jews --- Identity, Jewish --- Jewish identity --- Jewishness --- Jewish law --- Jewish nationalism --- Identity. --- Ethnic identity --- Race identity --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Germans. --- Holocaust. --- Intellectuals. --- Jews.

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Jews --- Judaism --- Antisemitism. --- Identity. --- Relations. --- Antisemitism --- Identity, Jewish --- Jewish identity --- Jewishness --- Jewish law --- Jewish nationalism --- Anti-Jewish attitudes --- Anti-Semitism --- Ethnic relations --- Prejudices --- Philosemitism --- Identity --- Relations --- Ethnic identity --- Race identity --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Jews - Identity. --- Judaism - Relations.

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Jews --- Jews. --- Identity --- Identity. --- Identity, Jewish --- Jewish identity --- Jewishness --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewish question --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnic identity --- Race identity --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Jewish law --- Jewish nationalism --- Legal status, laws, etc.