Judaism’s Promise, Meeting the Challenge of Modernity

Seymour W. Itzkoff (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

218 Seiten

2015 | New edition
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4331-2626-0 (ISBN)

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Judaism’s Promise, Meeting The Challenge Of Modernity follows Seymour W. Itzkoff’s well-received three-book series, Who Are the Jews? Judaism’s Promise confronts the many revolutions that have reshaped Judaism over the centuries allowing it and its people a path of leadership into the modern world.

Judaism’s Promise, Meeting The Challenge Of Modernity follows Seymour W. Itzkoff’s well-received three-book series, Who Are the Jews? Judaism’s Promise, confronts the many revolutions that have reshaped Judaism over the centuries allowing it and its people a path of leadership into the modern world. It takes the writings of the Torah, Holy Scriptures, and Talmud seriously as exemplars of the human search for civilizational and moral intellectuality. The book’s basic concern is with the withering of Judaism as a force in contemporary Western civilization.
Sadly millions of Jews have left the faith. Others venture forth only hesitantly into a synagogue, now a bastion of fossilized ritual and conspicuous consumption. These millions needed more from the orthodoxy, and this book attempts to show them the way back by giving renewed life to the heritages of Judaism, and, consequently, to its meaning for the modern world. Judaism’s Promise argues for a return to the synagogue’s originating Hellenistic commitment «to come together» in intellectual and moral study. As Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan argued, Judaism must once more become in the 20–21st century the civilization that it once represented to the wider world, and not a fossilized ceremonialism.

Seymour W. Itzkoff was a professional cellist before completing his masters and doctoral degrees in philosophy at Columbia University. He is the author of twenty-three books in a variety of intellectual disciplines. He became an emeritus professor after thirty four years of teaching at Smith College.

Contents: The Future of the Jews? – Sources for the Religious – Torah/Law – Scriptures – Talmudic Republic – Haskalah: Crisis – Our Judaic Heritage – Holocaust: A Message for the Jews – Israel, Judaism: Our Contemporary World Malaise – Understanding Historical Judaism – Judaism Reconstituted – Values and the Future.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.3.2015
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 225 mm
Gewicht	350 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
	Sozialwissenschaften
Schlagworte	Enlightement • Holy Scriptures • Revolution • Torah
ISBN-10	1-4331-2626-5 / 1433126265
ISBN-13	978-1-4331-2626-0 / 9781433126260
Zustand	Neuware