Studies in Judaism, Humanities, and the Social Sciences: 1.1
Author: Simcha Fishbane
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Published: 2017-12-06
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9781618117755
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Studies in Judaism, Humanities, and the Social Sciences
Author: Simcha Fishbane
Publisher:
Published: 2021-02-23
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9781644695678
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Studies in Judaism, Humanities, and the Social Sciences is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed annual review published by Academic Studies Press. The mission of the annual is to publish original works of interest on Judaism through the "eyes" of the social sciences. Its goal is to advance the systematic, scholarly, and social scientific study of Judaism, and to provide a forum for the discussion of methodologies, theories, and conceptual approaches across the many disciplines of social science. Articles are contemporary or historical in nature and can include case studies, historical studies, articles on new theoretical developments, results of research that advance our understanding of Judaism, and works on innovations in methodology. Studies in Judaism and the Social Sciences encourages contributions from the global community of scholars. All articles in this annual review undergo peer review, based on initial editor screening and refereeing by anonymous reviewers.
The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies
Author: Martin Goodman
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks Online
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 1060
ISBN-13: 9780199280322
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies reflects the current state of scholarship in the field as analyzed by an international team of experts in the different and varied areas represented within contemporary Jewish Studies. Unlike recent attempts to encapsulate the current state of Jewish Studies, the Oxford Handbook is more than a mere compendium of agreed facts; rather, it is an exhaustive survey of current interests and directions in the field.
Social Science and the Politics of Modern Jewish Identity
Author: Mitchell Bryan Hart
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780804738248
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book traces the emergence and development of an organized, institutionalized Jewish social science, and explores the increasing importance of statistics and other modes of analysis for Jewish elites throughout Europe and the United States. The Zionist movement provided the initial impetus as it looked to the social sciences to provide the knowledge of contemporary Jewish life deemed necessary for nationalist revival. The social sciences offered empirical evidence of the ambiguous condition of the Jewish diaspora, and also charted emancipation and assimilation, viewed as dissolutions of and threats to Jewish identity. Liberal, assimilationist scholars also utilized social science data to demonstrate the continuing viability of Jewish life in the diaspora. Jewish social science grew out of a sustained effort to understand and explain the effects of modernization on Jewry. Above all, Jewish scholars sought to give the enormous transformations undergone by Jewry in the nineteenth century a larger meaning and significance
What Were the Early Rabbis?
Author: Jack N. Lightstone
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2023-06-05
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1666762490
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Over the first eight centuries CE, the religious cultures of Middle Eastern, Mediterranean and many European lands transformed. Worship of "the gods" largely gave way to the worship of YHWH, the God of Israel, under Christianity and Islam, both developments of contemporary Judaism, after Rome destroyed Judaism's central shrine, the Jerusalem Temple, in 70 CE. But concomitant changes occurred within contemporary Judaism. The events of 70 wiped away well-established Judaic institutions in the Land of Israel, and over time the authority of a cadre of new "masters" of Judaic law, life, and practice, the "rabbis," took hold. What was the core, professional-like profile of members of this emerging cadre in the late second and early third centuries, when this group first attained a level of stable institutionalization (even if not yet well-established authority)? What views did they promote about the authoritative basis of their profile? What in their surrounding and antecedent sociocultural contexts lent prima facie legitimacy and currency to that profile? Geared to a nonspecialist readership, What Were the Early Rabbis? addresses these questions and consequently sheds light on eventual shifts in power that came to underpin Judaic communal life, while Christianity and Islam "Judaized" non-Jews under their expansive hegemonies.
New Humanities and Academic Disciplines
Author: Jacob Neusner
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2004-10-18
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 1592449530
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is about social change as it is even now being revealed in the creation of a new field of learning, in an unprecedented setting, and for an as-yet-unknown cultural and intellectual purpose. It is about how a field of learning moves from one kind of institution to another, is practiced by new people (women, not only men, and outsiders as well as insiders), and for new purposes (secular, not only religious) and in new ways. Out of these minute particulars, in our imagination we may reconstruct the whole of modern history -- the universe out of a grain of sand. Perhaps no group in the past two hundred years of revolutionary change has moved so far, so fast, and in so many directions as the Jews.... from the Introduction
Beyond the Synagogue
Author: Rachel B. Gross
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1479820512
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Exploring Mishnah's World(s)
Author: Simcha Fishbane
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-11-07
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 3030535711
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book provides a new conceptual and methodological framework the social scientific study of Mishnah, as well as a series of case studies that apply social science perspectives to the analysis of Mishnah's evidence. The framework is one that takes full account of the historical and literary-historical issues that impinge upon the use of Mishnah for any scholarly purposes beyond philological study, including social scientific approaches to the materials. Based on the framework, each chapter undertakes, with appropriate methodological caveats, an avenue of inquiry open to the social scientist that brings to bear social scientific questions and modes of inquiry to Mishnaic evidence.
Jews and Judaism in Modern China
Author: M. Avrum Ehrlich
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-09-10
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1135214433
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book brings together a series of original essays which explore the dynamics at work in two of the oldest, intact and starkly contrasting civilizations on earth. The book studies how they interact in modernity and how each civilization views the other, and analyses areas of cooperation between scholars, activists and politicians.
The Light of Learning
Author: Glenn Dynner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2024-01-02
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0197670636
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The available sources on Hasidic society at the turn of the twentieth century create an impression of discontented Jewish youth and panicked parents, but not inexorable crisis and decline. Though the First World War and post-war pogroms further destabilized Hasidic society, they inadvertently created opportunities for the reinvention and revitalization of traditionalist education. The challenges of the early twentieth century would prove more galvanizing than demoralizing for certain visionary, reform-minded Hasidic leaders"--
