When Jews Argue

Between the University and the Beit Midrash
Herausgeber: Katz, Ethan B.; Ancselovits, Elisha; Dolgopolski, Sergey

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Produktbeschreibung

This book re-thinks the relationship between the world of the traditional Jewish study hall (the beit midrash) and the academy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 477g
• ISBN-13: 9781032427416
• ISBN-10: 1032427418
• Artikelnr.: 74064270

Autorenporträt

Ethan B. Katz teaches History and Jewish Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His previous books include The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France (2015) and Secularism in Question: Jews and Judaism in Modern Times (2015, co-edited with Ari Joskowicz). Sergey Dolgopolski is Gordon and Gretchen Gross Professor of Jewish Thought in the University at Buffalo SUNY. He has written Other Others: The Political After the Talmud (2018); The Open Past: Subjectivity and Remembering in the Talmud (2012); and What is Talmud? The Art of Disagreement (2009). Elisha Ancselovits teaches at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies and Yeshivat Maale Gilboa and is a fellow at Emory University's Center for the Study of Law and Religion. He has published widely in English and Hebrew and is completing a multi-volume history of Judaism through the lens of Jewish Law.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Engagement: Religious Devotion
Academic Relativism
and Beyond. 1. Terms: Is Jewish Studies Devotionist
Relativist
or Transcendentalist? 2. Philosophy: Moses Mendelssohn
Leo Strauss
and the Relativist/Devotionist Divide. 3. History: Devotionist Textual Scholarship and Historical Consciousness in Early Modern Responsa. 4. Law: The Mothers
the Mamzerim
and the Rabbis: A Post-Holocaust Halakhic Debate as Legal and Historical Source. 5. Language: Did the Medieval Grammarians' Scientific Approach to Hebrew Reject or Embrace Tradition? 6. Ethics: Debating the Proper Orientation of the Ethical Self in Rabbinic and Monastic Sources from Antiquity. 7. Pain: Milk and Blood
or the Critical Place of Suffering for Sages and Readers of the Talmud. 8. Consent: Coercion
Consent
and Self in the Redaction of a Bavli Sugya. 9. Feminism: Relativism and Devotion
the Yarmulke
and the Ex-Bais Yaakov Girl. 10. Postmodernism: The Soft Radicalism of Rav ShaGaR. 11. Education: A Case Study in Devotional and Relativist Learning in Early Childhood Religious Education. Afterword: Limits: Thesis
Antithesis
Synthesis.