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A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community

Mordecai M. Kaplan, Orthodoxy, and American Judaism

By: Jeffrey S. Gurock,Jacob J. Schacter

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A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community

Mordecai M. Kaplan, Orthodoxy, and American Judaism

By: Jeffrey S. Gurock,Jacob J. Schacter

The highly publicized obscenity trial of Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness (1928) is generally recognized as the crystallizing moment in the construction of a visible modern English lesbian culture, marking a great divide between innocence and deviance, private and public, New Woman and Modern Lesbian. Yet despite unreserved agreement on the importance of this cultural moment, previous studies often reductively distort our reading of the formation of early twentieth-century lesbian identity, either by neglecting to examine in detail the developments leading up to the ban or by framing events in too broad a context against other cultural phenomena. Fashioning Sapphism locates the novelist Radclyffe Hall and other prominent lesbians -- including the pioneer in women's policing, Mary Allen, the artist Gluck, and the writer Bryher -- within English modernity through the multiple sites of law, sexology, fashion, and literary and visual representation, thus tracing the emergence of a modern English lesbian subculture in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Drawing on extensive new archival research, the book interrogates anew a range of myths long accepted without question (and still in circulation) concerning, to cite only a few, the extent of homophobia in the 1920s, the strategic deployment of sexology against sexual minorities, and the rigidity of certain cultural codes to denote lesbianism in public culture.

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Columbia University Press

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0231106262

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9780231106269

Modern Orthodox Judaism: a Documentary History

By: Zev Eleff,Jacob J. Schacter

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Modern Orthodox Judaism: a Documentary History

By: Zev Eleff,Jacob J. Schacter

Modern Orthodox Judaism offers an extensive selection of primary texts documenting the Orthodox encounter with American Judaism that led to the emergence of the Modern Orthodox movement. Many texts in this volume are drawn from episodes of conflict that helped form Modern Orthodox Judaism. These include the traditionalists' response to the early expressions of Reform Judaism, as well as incidents that helped define the widening differences between Orthodox and Conservative Judaism in the early twentieth century. Other texts explore the internal struggles to maintain order and balance once Orthodox Judaism had separated itself from other religious movements. Zev Eleff combines published documents with seldom-seen archival sources in tracing Modern Orthodoxy as it developed into a structured movement, established its own institutions, and encountered critical events and issues--some that helped shape the movement and others that caused tension within it. A general introduction explains the rise of the movement and puts the texts in historical context. Brief introductions to each section guide readers through the documents of this new, dynamic Jewish expression.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0827612893

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Tradition and Crisis

Jewish Society at the End of the Middle Ages

By: Jacob Katz

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Tradition and Crisis

Jewish Society at the End of the Middle Ages

By: Jacob Katz

A new edition of Katz's study of European Jewish society at end of the Middle Ages. It taps into a rich source, the responsa literature of the Rabbinic establishment of the time, a time when self-governing communities of Jews dealt with their own civil and religious issues.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815628277

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9780815628279

A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community

Mordecai M. Kaplan, Orthodoxy, and American Judaism

By: Jeffrey S. Gurock,Jacob J. Schacter

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Mordecai M. Kaplan, Orthodoxy, and American Judaism

By: Jeffrey S. Gurock,Jacob J. Schacter

Mordecai Kaplan, the founder of the Reconstructionist movement, was the most influential and controversial radical Jewish thinker in the twentieth century. This book examines the intellectual influences that moved Kaplan from Orthodoxy and analyzes the combination of personal, strategic, and career reasons that kept Kaplan close to Orthodox Jews, posing a question crucial to the understanding of any religion: Can an established religious group learn from a heretic who has rejected its most fundamental beliefs?

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Columbia University Press

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0231504497

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9780231504492

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A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community

A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community

Modern Orthodox Judaism: a Documentary History

Modern Orthodox Judaism: a Documentary History

Tradition and Crisis

Tradition and Crisis

A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community

A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community

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