Sephardi Religious Responses/M

ISBN-13: 9783718656998 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 115 str.

Norman A. Stillman; N. Stillman;Stillman

Opis

Throughout the nineteenth century the entire structure of the Ashkenazi world crumbled. What remains of Ashkenazi Jewry today is split into irreconcilable religious camps on the one hand, and a large body of secularized Jews of greater or lesser ethnicity on the other. The Sephardi and Oriental Jews, who form the other great branch of world Jewry, had a very different encounter with the forces of modernity. This book examines some of their responses to its challenges. The Sephardi religious leaders, who had been historically more open to general culture, reacted with neither the anti-traditionalism of Reform Judaism nor the Ashkenazi ultra-Orthodox's uncompromising rejection of everything new. Their response was rather one of active and creative halakhic engagement coupled with a tolerant attitude toward the growing secularized elements of their communities. Much has been written on the social, economic, and political transformation of Sephardi and Oriental Jewry in the modern era. However, this is the first book in English devoted to the religious changes taking place in this important segment of Jewry which now constitutes the majority of Jews in the Jewish state.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 The Wind in the Palace: The Initial Responses of Sephardim and Ashkenazim Compared; Chapter 2 Modernist Traditionalists — Elijah Bekhor ?azzan & Raphael Aaron Ben Simeon: Their Thought and Oeuvre; Chapter 3 “My Heart’s in the East” — Sephardi Zionism; Chapter 4 After Modernity: Popular Reassertions, Ashkenazified Religiosity, and other Contemporary Trends;

O autorze

Authored by Stillman, Norman A.