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Author: Shalom Lilker
Publisher: Associated University Presses
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780845347409
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study discusses questions surrounding kibbutz and Judaism through examination of different kibbutzim and Thier issues.
Author: Aryei Fishman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1992-06-25
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 052140388X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work in the field of intellectual history explores religious ideas which emerged in Jewish thought under the influence of secular ideologies, and in response to the social and cultural realities created by Jewish Emancipation, Zionism and socialism. By concentrating on the major Jewish Orthodox movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Professor Fishman examines the innovative mechanisms of traditional Judaism that were activated by these movements, as they strove to accommodate new realities. The study focuses specifically on the Religious Kibbutz Federation in Israel, which (in the process of building its self-contained pioneering settlements) developed a religious sub-culture that incorporated the central values of Jewish nationalism and socialism. Professor Fishman shows that - by creating the most far-reaching synthesis of modern, and traditional Jewish, culture at the community level - the settlements of the RKF may be regarded as a test case for the measure of the capacity of Judaism to adapt to modern life.
Author: Daniel Gavron
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780847695263
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on the human story, journalist Daniel Gavron movingly portrays the fears, regrets and hopes of members of kibbutzim ranging from traditional to modern and agricultural to urban.
Author: Rachel Biale
Publisher:
Published: 2020-04-14
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781942134633
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn informative memoir of kibbutz life that reveal a piece of Israel's early story that should not be forgotten.
Author: William F. S. Miles
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2008-06-05
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780791471043
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first book about the only two Reform Movement kibbutzim in Israel.
Author: Joseph Blasi
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-28
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 135148477X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJoseph Blasidocuments and describes the workings of an existing kibbutz society to provide a model for Utopian thinking and clear up confusion concerning Utopian values. He details the history and development of Kibbutz Vatik (a pseudonym), providing a systematic record of kibbutz culture: daily life and social arrangements, economic cooperation and work, politics, education, and attitudes of community members.Despite its advantages as a model Utopia, the kibbutz is not a perfect society. Having eliminated the most serious forms of social, economic, political, and educational fragmentation and violence, the communal group is left with the complicated and mounting problems of keeping a fellowship alive and well. Blasi assesses the community's advantages and disadvantages, illuminating the interlocking dilemmas that cut across social and political concerns.The Communal Experience of the Kibbutz updates our knowledge of kibbutz life in light of recent research. It gives a detailed account of the Utopian community in the kibbutz and its activities. The special quality of the kibbutz, Blasi argues, lies not so much in its proven success vis-a-vis other communal societies, but in that it is a communal alternative that most Western peoples can readily visualize as a real option.
Author: Yossi Katz
Publisher: Academic Studies PRess
Published: 2021-05-11
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 1644695782
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJudaism is a religion and a way of life that combines beliefs as well as practical commandments and traditions, encompassing all spheres of life. Some of the numerous precepts emerge directly from the Torah (the Law of Moses). Others are commanded by Oral Law, rulings of illustrious Jewish legal scholars throughout the generations, and rabbinic responsa composed over hundreds of years and still being written today. Like other religions, Judaism has also developed unique symbols that have become virtually exclusive to it, such as the Star of David and the menorah. This book argues that Judaism impacts human geography in significant ways: it shapes the environment and space of its believers, thus creating a unique “Jewish geography.”
Author: Šelomo A. Dešen
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9781412826747
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an unusual and extremely timely collective effort. It appears at a moment inwhich Israelis not only must confront their Arab neighbors, but must deal with one another as Jews possessing radically different views on the present and future of the Jewish tradition. With this seventh volume of the series, the Israeli Sociological Society has turned its attention to religion, an area that for many years has been of high importance, but low profile in Israeli affairs and in the wider Middle Eastern context. Chapters and contributors include: "Jewish Civilization: Approaches to Problems of Israeli Society" by Shmuel N. Eisenstadt; "Life Tradition and Book Tradition in the Development of Ultraorthodox Judaism" by Menachem Friedman; "Religious Kibbutzim: Judaism and Modernization" by Aryei Fishman; "The Religion of Elderly Oriental Jewish Women" by Susan Sered; and "Hanukkah and the Myth of the Maccabees in Ideology and in Society" by Eliezer Don-Yehiya. The increasing presence of religious activism in contemporary Israel, side by side with subtle changes in the religion of Israeli Sephardim, makes the topic of religion essential for an understanding of Israelâand much of the Middle East generally. Israeli Judaism is a significant work, and will be of interest to theologians, philosophers, sociologists, anthropologists, and political theorists.
Author: Abraham J Edelheit
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-09-10
Total Pages: 598
ISBN-13: 1000302776
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe momentous events of modern Jewish history have led to a proliferation of books and articles on Jewish life over the last 350 years. Placing modern Jewish history into both universal and local contexts, this selected, annotated bibliography organizes and categorizes the best of this vast array of written material. The authors have included all English-language books of major importance on world Jewry and on individual Jewish communities, plus books most readily available to researchers and readers, and a select number of pamphlets and articles. The resulting bibliography is also a guide to recent Jewish historiography and research methods.
Author: Michael Terry
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-02
Total Pages: 1768
ISBN-13: 1135941572
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Reader's Guide to Judaism is a survey of English-language translations of the most important primary texts in the Jewish tradition. The field is assessed in some 470 essays discussing individuals (Martin Buber, Gluckel of Hameln), literature (Genesis, Ladino Literature), thought and beliefs (Holiness, Bioethics), practice (Dietary Laws, Passover), history (Venice, Baghdadi Jews of India), and arts and material culture (Synagogue Architecture, Costume). The emphasis is on Judaism, rather than on Jewish studies more broadly.
