The second half of the twentieth century has been a time when American Jews have experienced a mi... more The second half of the twentieth century has been a time when American Jews have experienced a minimum of prejudice and almost all domains of life have been accessible to them, but it has also been a time of assimilation, of swelling rates of inter-marriage, and of large numbers ignoring their Jewishness completely. Jews have no trouble building synagogues, but they have all sorts of trouble filling them. The quality of Jewish education is perhaps higher than ever before, and the output of Jewish scholarship is overwhelming in its scope and quality, but most American Jews receive a minimum of religious education and can neither read nor comprehend the great corpus of Jewish literature in its Hebrew (or Aramaic) original. This is a time in America when there is no shame in being a Jew, and yet fewer American Jews seem to know what being a Jew means. This book is part of a stocktaking that has been occurring among Jews as the century in which their residence in America was firmly esta...
A discussion of the Zaddik/rebbe concept and description of a Hasidic court, and the history of a... more A discussion of the Zaddik/rebbe concept and description of a Hasidic court, and the history of and issues involved in succession, the role of charisma, branding, and inherited identity as well as the growing conservatism of Hasidism are discussed.
Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1996
... In his study of religion and politics in Iran, The Mantle of the Prophet, Roy Mottahe-deh quo... more ... In his study of religion and politics in Iran, The Mantle of the Prophet, Roy Mottahe-deh quotes a mullah who explains, "Remov-ing ... Hence, as Emmanuel Sivan observes in Radical Islam, both the Jews and Muslims in question, while sometimes activist and mili-tant, are in their ...
Page 1. TOWARD THE EUROPEAN JEWISH MODEL EDITED BY JACOB KATZ Page 2. Page 3. Page 4. Judaica His... more Page 1. TOWARD THE EUROPEAN JEWISH MODEL EDITED BY JACOB KATZ Page 2. Page 3. Page 4. Judaica History Toward Modernity The European Jewish Model Edited by Jacob Katz The contributors to this volume throw ...
The second half of the twentieth century has been a time when American Jews have experienced a mi... more The second half of the twentieth century has been a time when American Jews have experienced a minimum of prejudice and almost all domains of life have been accessible to them, but it has also been a time of assimilation, of swelling rates of inter-marriage, and of large numbers ignoring their Jewishness completely. Jews have no trouble building synagogues, but they have all sorts of trouble filling them. The quality of Jewish education is perhaps higher than ever before, and the output of Jewish scholarship is overwhelming in its scope and quality, but most American Jews receive a minimum of religious education and can neither read nor comprehend the great corpus of Jewish literature in its Hebrew (or Aramaic) original. This is a time in America when there is no shame in being a Jew, and yet fewer American Jews seem to know what being a Jew means. This book is part of a stocktaking that has been occurring among Jews as the century in which their residence in America was firmly esta...
The second half of the twentieth century has been a time when American Jews have experienced a mi... more The second half of the twentieth century has been a time when American Jews have experienced a minimum of prejudice and almost all domains of life have been accessible to them, but it has also been a time of assimilation, of swelling rates of inter-marriage, and of large numbers ignoring their Jewishness completely. Jews have no trouble building synagogues, but they have all sorts of trouble filling them. The quality of Jewish education is perhaps higher than ever before, and the output of Jewish scholarship is overwhelming in its scope and quality, but most American Jews receive a minimum of religious education and can neither read nor comprehend the great corpus of Jewish literature in its Hebrew (or Aramaic) original. This is a time in America when there is no shame in being a Jew, and yet fewer American Jews seem to know what being a Jew means. This book is part of a stocktaking that has been occurring among Jews as the century in which their residence in America was firmly esta...
The second half of the twentieth century has been a time when American Jews have experienced a mi... more The second half of the twentieth century has been a time when American Jews have experienced a minimum of prejudice and almost all domains of life have been accessible to them, but it has also been a time of assimilation, of swelling rates of inter-marriage, and of large numbers ignoring their Jewishness completely. Jews have no trouble building synagogues, but they have all sorts of trouble filling them. The quality of Jewish education is perhaps higher than ever before, and the output of Jewish scholarship is overwhelming in its scope and quality, but most American Jews receive a minimum of religious education and can neither read nor comprehend the great corpus of Jewish literature in its Hebrew (or Aramaic) original. This is a time in America when there is no shame in being a Jew, and yet fewer American Jews seem to know what being a Jew means. This book is part of a stocktaking that has been occurring among Jews as the century in which their residence in America was firmly esta...
A discussion of the Zaddik/rebbe concept and description of a Hasidic court, and the history of a... more A discussion of the Zaddik/rebbe concept and description of a Hasidic court, and the history of and issues involved in succession, the role of charisma, branding, and inherited identity as well as the growing conservatism of Hasidism are discussed.
Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1996
... In his study of religion and politics in Iran, The Mantle of the Prophet, Roy Mottahe-deh quo... more ... In his study of religion and politics in Iran, The Mantle of the Prophet, Roy Mottahe-deh quotes a mullah who explains, "Remov-ing ... Hence, as Emmanuel Sivan observes in Radical Islam, both the Jews and Muslims in question, while sometimes activist and mili-tant, are in their ...
Page 1. TOWARD THE EUROPEAN JEWISH MODEL EDITED BY JACOB KATZ Page 2. Page 3. Page 4. Judaica His... more Page 1. TOWARD THE EUROPEAN JEWISH MODEL EDITED BY JACOB KATZ Page 2. Page 3. Page 4. Judaica History Toward Modernity The European Jewish Model Edited by Jacob Katz The contributors to this volume throw ...
The second half of the twentieth century has been a time when American Jews have experienced a mi... more The second half of the twentieth century has been a time when American Jews have experienced a minimum of prejudice and almost all domains of life have been accessible to them, but it has also been a time of assimilation, of swelling rates of inter-marriage, and of large numbers ignoring their Jewishness completely. Jews have no trouble building synagogues, but they have all sorts of trouble filling them. The quality of Jewish education is perhaps higher than ever before, and the output of Jewish scholarship is overwhelming in its scope and quality, but most American Jews receive a minimum of religious education and can neither read nor comprehend the great corpus of Jewish literature in its Hebrew (or Aramaic) original. This is a time in America when there is no shame in being a Jew, and yet fewer American Jews seem to know what being a Jew means. This book is part of a stocktaking that has been occurring among Jews as the century in which their residence in America was firmly esta...
The second half of the twentieth century has been a time when American Jews have experienced a mi... more The second half of the twentieth century has been a time when American Jews have experienced a minimum of prejudice and almost all domains of life have been accessible to them, but it has also been a time of assimilation, of swelling rates of inter-marriage, and of large numbers ignoring their Jewishness completely. Jews have no trouble building synagogues, but they have all sorts of trouble filling them. The quality of Jewish education is perhaps higher than ever before, and the output of Jewish scholarship is overwhelming in its scope and quality, but most American Jews receive a minimum of religious education and can neither read nor comprehend the great corpus of Jewish literature in its Hebrew (or Aramaic) original. This is a time in America when there is no shame in being a Jew, and yet fewer American Jews seem to know what being a Jew means. This book is part of a stocktaking that has been occurring among Jews as the century in which their residence in America was firmly esta...
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