Jewish Secularity: The Search for Roots and the Challenges of Relevant Meaning

Heller, Zachary I. (Editor)/ Gordis, David M. (Editor)

ISBN 10: 076185794X / ISBN 13: 9780761857945

Verlag: Univ Pr of Amer, 2012

Beschreibung

130 pages. 9.00x6.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers x-076185794X

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Jewish Secularity: The Search for Roots and the Challenges of Relevant Meaning
• Verlag: Univ Pr of Amer
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 076185794X
• ISBN-13: 9780761857945
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: Brand New

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Inhaltsangabe

A growing number of Jews identify themselves as secular or “somewhat secular.” Is this expansive definition of Jewishness a new phenomenon? What are its roots? This insightful book provides an overview of a profound development in the evolving history of Jewish life in America.

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David M. Gordis is president of Hebrew College and professor emeritus of Rabbinics. He is the founding director of the National Center for Jewish Policy Studies and the initiator of the Interreligious Center on Public Life. An ordained rabbi, he is widely regarded for his classic Jewish scholarship, his communal leadership, and his extensive writings on Jewish life in America and Israel. Prior to assuming the presidency of Hebrew College in 1993, he served as vice president of the University of Judaism in Los Angeles (now renamed the American Jewish University) and as executive vice president of the American Jewish Committee. Zachary I. Heller served as associate director of the National Center for Jewish Policy Studies (successor to the Wilstein Institute) from 1996 until his death in 2010. He combined a career in the rabbinate with national and international Jewish communal leadership. He is the author of numerous articles in the fields of Jewish policy and bioethics and the editor of several volumes of Jewish policy studies.