The Conversion of the Jews and Other Essays
Author: Mark Shechner
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780312046194
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Author: Mark Shechner
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780312046194
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mark Shechner
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1990-10-11
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 134921020X
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-03-07
Total Pages: 489
ISBN-13: 9004501770
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explores conversion experience in the ancient Mediterranean with attention to early Judaism, early Christianity, and philosophy in the Roman empire from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Author: Daniel C. Harlow
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2011-02-08
Total Pages: 543
ISBN-13: 0802866255
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on a conference held Apr. 4-5, 2008 at Amherst College.
Author: Krister Stendahl
Publisher:
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 133
ISBN-13: 9780334012221
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Walter Jacob
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780929699059
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis essays explore conversion to Judaism and the issues connected with it in the late twentieth century
Author: Theodor Dunkelgrün
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2020-03-06
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0812296753
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA formidable collection of studies on religious conversion and converts in Jewish history Theodor Dunkelgrün and Pawel Maciejko observe that the term "conversion" is profoundly polysemous. It can refer to Jews who turn to religions other than Judaism and non-Jews who tie their fates to that of Jewish people. It can be used to talk about Christians becoming Muslim (or vice versa), Christians "born again," or premodern efforts to Christianize (or Islamize) indigenous populations of Asia, Africa, and the Americas. It can even describe how modern, secular people discover spiritual creeds and join religious communities. Viewing Jewish history from the perspective of conversion across a broad chronological and conceptual frame, Bastards and Believers highlights how the concepts of the convert and of conversion have histories of their own. The volume begins with Sara Japhet's study of conversion in the Hebrew Bible and ends with Netanel Fisher's essay on conversion to Judaism in contemporary Israel. In between, Andrew S. Jacobs writes about the allure of becoming an "other" in late Antiquity; Ephraim Kanarfogel considers Rabbinic attitudes and approaches toward conversion to Judaism in the Middles Ages; and Paola Tartakoff ponders the relationship between conversion and poverty in medieval Iberia. Three case studies, by Javier Castaño, Claude Stuczynski, and Anne Oravetz Albert, focus on different aspects of the experience of Spanish-Portuguese conversos. Michela Andreatta and Sarah Gracombe discuss conversion narratives; and Elliott Horowitz and Ellie Shainker analyze Eastern European converts' encounters with missionaries of different persuasions. Despite the differences between periods, contexts, and sources, two fundamental and mutually exclusive notions of human life thread the essays together: the conviction that one can choose one's destiny and the conviction that one cannot escapes one's past. The history of converts presented by Bastards and Believers speaks to the possibility, or impossibility, of changing one's life. Contributors: Michela Andreatta, Javier Castaño, Theodor Dunkelgrün, Netanel Fisher, Sarah Gracombe, Elliott Horowitz, Andrew S. Jacobs, Sara Japhet, Ephraim Kanarfogel, Pawel Maciejko, Anne Oravetz Albert, Ellie Shainker, Claude Stuczynski, Paola Tartakoff.
Author: Wendy Mogel
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2008-12-02
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1416593063
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides parents with advice on using Jewish teachings from the Torah and Talmud to overcome struggles with raising children, nurture strengths and uniqueness, and encourage respectfulness towards their parents and others.
Author: Michal Kravel-Tovi
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2017-09-05
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 0231544812
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReligious conversion is often associated with ideals of religious sincerity. But in a society in which religious belonging is entangled with ethnonational citizenship and confers political privilege, a convert might well have multilayered motives. Over the last two decades, mass non-Jewish immigration to Israel, especially from the former Soviet Union, has sparked heated debates over the Jewish state’s conversion policy and intensified suspicion of converts’ sincerity. When the State Winks carefully traces the performance of state-endorsed Orthodox conversion to highlight the collaborative labor that goes into the making of the Israeli state and its Jewish citizens. In a rich ethnographic narrative based on fieldwork in conversion schools, rabbinic courts, and ritual bathhouses, Michal Kravel-Tovi follows conversion candidates—mostly secular young women from a former Soviet background—and state conversion agents, mostly religious Zionists caught between the contradictory demands of their nationalist and religious commitments. She complicates the popular perception that conversion is a “wink-wink” relationship in which both sides agree to treat the converts’ pretenses of observance as real. Instead, she demonstrates how their interdependent performances blur any clear boundary between sincere and empty conversions. Alongside detailed ethnography, When the State Winks develops new ways to think about the complex connection between religious conversion and the nation-state. Kravel-Tovi emphasizes how state power and morality is managed through “winking”—the subtle exchanges and performances that animate everyday institutional encounters between state and citizen. In a country marked by tension between official religiosity and a predominantly secular Jewish population, winking permits the state to save its Jewish face.
Author: Joseph Samuel Christian Frederick Frey
Publisher:
Published: 1837
Total Pages: 266
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