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A vision of Jews, Judaism, and Jewishness for the 21st century

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Be the Jew You Make: Jews, Jewishness, and Judaism in
Postethnic America
2. Ethnicity, America, and the Future of the Jews: Felix Adler,
Mordecai Kaplan, and Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
3. Pragmatism and Piety: The American
Spiritual and Philosophical Roots of Jewish Renewal
4. Postmonotheism, Renewal, and a New American
Judaism
5. Hasidism, Mithnagdism, and Contemporary American
Judaism: Talmudism, (Neo) Kabbala, and (Post) Halakha
6. From the Historical Jesus to a New Jewish Christology:
Rethinking Jesus in Contemporary American Judaism
7. Sainthood, Selfhood, and the Ba'al Teshuva: ArtScroll's American
Hero and Jewish Renewal's Functional Saint
8. 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
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Shaul Magid is Jay and Jeannie Schottenstein Professor of Jewish Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. He is author of From Metaphysics to Midrash (IUP, 2008).

Reviews

"In every case, Shaul Magid's point is that the old paradigms for thinking about Jews and Judaism - specifically the ethnically inflected, assimilation-phobic, chosen/one God model - are dead. But all is not lost. He is optimistic that if we redefine the terms of Jewish survival, we will see just how much Jews have gained in these transformations." Lila Corwin Berman, Temple University