Shalom Goldman

Jewish-Christian Difference and Modern Jewish Identity (eBook, ePUB)

Seven Twentieth-Century Converts

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is an exploration of what would seem to be a simple question, but is actually the object of a profound quest-"who is a Jew?" This is a deeply complex issue, both within Judaism, and in interactions between Jews and Christians. Jewish-Christian Difference and Modern Jewish Identity: Seven Twentieth-Century Converts contends that in the twentieth century the Jewish-Christian relationship has changed to the extent that definitions of Jewish identity were reshaped. The stories of the seven influential and creative converts that are related in this book indicate that the borders dividing the Jewish and Christian faiths are, for many, more fluid and permeable than ever before.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739196090
• Artikelnr.: 43976004

Autorenporträt

Shalom Goldman is professor of religion at Middlebury College.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: Demons' Wager
Chapter One: Who is a Jew?
Chapter Two: The Conversions of Ruth Ben David (1920-2000).
Chapter Three: Jean-Marie Lustiger, The "Jewish Cardinal: (1926-2007).
Chapter Four: Donato Manduzio and the Converts of San Nicandro: A Group
Conversion to Judaism in 1930s Italy (Donato Manduzio, 1885-1948).
Chapter Five: Happy About His Conversion, Miserable About His Apostasy: The
1945 Apostasy of Rabbi Zolli Revisited (Israel Zolli, 1881-1956).
Chapter Six: "Ruth From the Banks of the Volga": Elisheva Bikhovskhy
(Elizaveta Ivanova Zhirkova, 1888-1949).
Chapter Seven: Apostasy and Citizenship: The Case of Brother Daniel (Oswald
Rufeisen, 1922-1998).
Chapter Eight: Moishe Rosen, Founder of Jews For Jesus (1932-2010).
Epilogue