9789004125353 - Jewish Identities: Fifty Intellectuals Answer Ben-gurion Jewish Identities in a Changing World, 1 by Ben-rafael, Eliezer (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Octavo. xxvi, 394pp. Index. Dark over light blue boards, lettered in white. A fine, as new copy. Ten years after the creation of the state of Israel, David Ben Gurion wrote to 50 of the best thinkers and researchers in the world asking "Who is a Jew?" This publication contains the letters that answered this question, the original text of Ben Gurion, and an analysis by Shalow Tasavi. (OCLC) 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 converge 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. (Publisher) Contents: Foreword / Joseph Gorny -- pt. 1. What is a Jew? Entering the Modern Era. Ben-Gurion's Correspondents. Israeli-Jewish Identities. Jewish Identities in the Diaspora -- the Case of America. Divergence and Convergence of Jewish Identities -- pt. 2. Who is a Jew? Historical Introduction / Shalom Ratzaby. Ben-Gurion's Query. The Letters of the Sages. 1. Shmuel Yossef Agnon. 2. Alexander Altmann. 3. Henry Baruk. 4. Shmuel Hugo Bergmann. 5. Isaiah Berlin. 6. Yehuda Bourla. 7. Haim Hermann Cohn. 8. Louis Eliezer Halevi Finkelstein. 9. Felix Frankfurter. 10. Solomon B. Freehof. 11. Shlomo Goren. 12. Aryeh Leib Grossnass, Meir Lew, Abraham Rappoport, Meir Halevy Steinberg and Morris Swift. 13. Zecharya Hacohen. 14. Shalom Yitzhak Halevi. 15. Hayim Hazaz. 16. Yitzhak Isaac Halevi Herzog. 17. Abraham Joshua Heschel. 18. Joseph Shlomo Kahaneman. 19. Yossef Kappah. 20. Jacob Kaplan. 21. Mordecai Menahem Kaplan. 22. Yekhezkel Kaufmann. 23. Aaron Kotler. 24. Dante Lattes. 25. Saul Lieberman. 26. Yehuda Leib Hakohen Maimon. 27. Moshe Maisels. 28. Andre Neher. 29. Salomon Rodrigues Pereira. 30. Chaim Perelman. 31. Simon H. Rifkind. 32. Yecheskiel Sarne. 33. Joseph Schecter. 34. Menachem Mendel Schneerson. 35. Sh. (Shalom Joseph Shapira) Shalom. 36. Moshe Silberg. 37. Akiva Ernst Simon. 38. Leon (Arye) Simon. 39. Joseph Dov Soloveitchik and Chaim Heller. 40. Alfredo Shabtai Toaff. 41. Elio Raffaelo Toaff. 42. Ephraim A. Urbach. 43. Yekhiel Weinberg. 44. Tsevi (Harry A.) Wolfson. 45. Aaron Zeitlin. 46. Shlomo Y. Zevin. (OCLC).

Leiden, E.J.Brill, 2002. 394 pp. Very good copy. Clean, no name, underlinings or any other traces from former owner. Hardcover. 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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