Table of Contents

The Editors: General Introduction
1: Uzi Rebhun: Demographic Issues
Historical Issues
2: Lois Dubin: Enlightenment and Emancipation
3: Robert Jan van Pelt: Persecution
4: Emmanuele Ottolenghi: A National Home
5: Emmanuele Ottolenghi: Post-Zionism
Issues of Religion and Modernity
6: Miri Freud-Kandel: Modernist Movements
7: Eliezer Don-Yehiya: Traditionalist Strands
8: Yaakov Malkin: Humanist and Secular Judaisms
9: George Wilkes: Jewish Renewal
Local Issues
10: Chaim Waxman: American Jewry
11: Eran Kaplan: Israeli Jewry
12: Paula Hyman: French Jewry
13: Miri Freud-Kandel: British Jewry
14: John Klier: Jewry in the Former Soviet Union
Social Issues
15: Harvey Goldberg: Survey
16: Ezra Kopelowitz: Jewish Identity
17: Nurit Stadler: Fundamentalism
Religious Issues
18: Ruth Langer: Prayer and Worship
19: Nicholas de Lange: Authority of Texts
20: Jeremy Wanderer: The Future of Jewish Practice
Theological Issues
21: Norbert Samuelson: Survey
22: David Novak: Revelation
23: Peter Ochs: Covenant
Philosophical Issues
24: Kenneth Seeskin: Survey
25: Daniel Rynhold: The Problem of Evil
26: Michael Zank: Jewish Ethics in a Modern World
Halakhic Issues
27: Joanathan Cohen: Survey
28: Daniel Sinclair: Halakhah and Israel
29: Steven H. Resnicoff: Contemporary Issues in Halakhah
Gender Issues
30: Susannah Heschel: Survey
31: Judith Baskin: The Changing Role of the Woman
32: Mark Solomon: Sexuality
Judaism and the Other
33: Elliot Horowitz: As Others See Jews
34: MargieTolstoy: Jewish-Christian Relations
35: Reuven Firestone: Jewish-Muslim Relations

Promotional Information

A comprehensive, multi-disciplinary volume of newly-commissioned chapters that will serve as a main course text for the study of Modern/Contemporary Judaism.

About the Author

Nicholas De Lange is Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. He is also a Fellow of Wolfson College and Director of Studies for Gonville and Caius College. His research interests include medieval Hebrew literature and manuscripts, contemporary Jewish theology and Jewish-Christian relations. Following a Research Fellowship in the Faculty of Divinity at University of Cambridge, Miri Freud-Kandel moved to
Oxford to take up a lectureship in Modern Judaism and a Junior Research Fellowship at Wolfson College. Her research interests include the theological development of Orthodox Judaism, particularly in
Britain.