Cultural disjunctions : post-traditional Jewish identities /

Contemporary Jews variously configure their identity, which is no longer necessarily defined by an observance of the Torah and God's commandments. Indeed, the Jews of modernity are no longer exclusively Jewish. They are affiliated with many communities, vocational, professional, political and c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mendes-Flohr, Paul R. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2021]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : discontinuous identities, dialectical imponderables
  • Post-traditional Jewish identities
  • Jewish cultural memory : its manifold configurations
  • Jewish learning, Jewish hope
  • Post-traditional faith
  • Within and beyond borders
  • In praise of discontent
  • Coda.