Reflections on identity : the Jewish case /
This book deals with the meaning of identity in general and Jewish identity in particular. Different notions of Jewish identity have been formulated in the history of Jewish thought, many of them supporting a rigid and one-sided view of it. Relying on a cultural historical analysis of various theore...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Text translated from the Hebrew. |
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Brighton, Massachusetts :
Academic Studies Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | Emunot.
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| Summary: | This book deals with the meaning of identity in general and Jewish identity in particular. Different notions of Jewish identity have been formulated in the history of Jewish thought, many of them supporting a rigid and one-sided view of it. Relying on a cultural historical analysis of various theoretical and empirical dimensions of this concept, the book shows that the term Jewish identity denotes a field covering a broad range of options for Jewish existence. Common to all is the affirmation of Jewish identity, but not necessarily one single approach as the sole possible course of Jewish life. |
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| Item Description: | "This volume contains three chapters that were previously published in a Hebrew volume, but, otherwise, it is original and was not previously published in full elsewhere"--Publisher's email. |
| Physical Description: | viii, 213 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-208) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781618115348 1618115340 |