American post-Judaism : identity and renewal in a postethnic society /

How do American Jews identify as both Jewish and American? American Post-Judaism argues that Zionism and the Holocaust, two anchors of contemporary American Jewish identity, will no longer be centers of identity formation for future generations of American Jews. Shaul Magid articulates a new, post-e...

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Main Author: Magid, Shaul, 1958-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, ©2013.
Series:Religion in North America.
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Table of Contents:
  • Be the Jew you make : Jews, Jewishness, and Judaism in postethnic America
  • Ethnicity, America, and the future of the Jews : Felix Adler, Mordecai Kaplan, and Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
  • Pragmatism and piety : the American spiritual and philosophical roots of Jewish renewal
  • Postmonotheism, renewal, and a new American Judaism
  • Hasidism, Mithnagdism, and contemporary American Judaism : Talmudism, (Neo) Kabbala, and (Post) Halakha
  • From the historical Jesus to a new Jewish Christology : rethinking Jesus in contemporary American Judaism
  • Sainthood, selfhood, and the Ba'al Teshuva: ArtScroll's American hero and Jewish Renewal's functional saint
  • Rethinking the Holocaust after post-Holocaust theology : uniqueness, exceptionalism, and the renewal of American Judaism
  • Epilogue. Shlomo Carlebach : an itinerant preacher for a post-Judaism age.