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Leadership and Conflict - Tensions in Medieval and Modern Jewish History and Culture (Hardcover)
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Leadership and Conflict - Tensions in Medieval and Modern Jewish History and Culture (Hardcover)
Series: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
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This masterly collection of essays offers a multifaceted analysis
of how Jewish leaders in medieval and early modern times responded
to the challenges presented by a changing world. Based largely on
the study of sermons and response - genres that show them
addressing real situations in the lives of their people - the book
reveals how they handled intellectual, social, and political
diversity and conflict. As medieval Jews were exposed to new
philosophical ideas, many began to question and challenge
rabbinical leadership. Leadership and Conflict explores the process
by which these ideas became more accessible, the doubts that
consequently arose regarding certain biblical and rabbinic texts,
and the attempt by some leaders to ban the study of philosophical
texts altogether. The book also addresses the rhetoric of rebuke
used by preachers to criticize behavior within their community that
they considered to be a violation of Jewish law and tradition.
Another set of challenges to traditional Jewish life emerged from
political developments in the wider world, including the
unification of France, the Spanish Inquisition and Edict of
Expulsion, and the beginning of the Counter-Reformation. Leadership
and Conflict asks whether criticism of the talent and leadership of
rabbis in such times of crisis was justified. The final section of
the book is devoted to conflicting attitudes within Jewish society:
towards the Holy Land, exile and diasporic existence, and messianic
movements and personalities. Leadership and Conflict represents
three decades of scholarship by Professor Marc Saperstein, a
distinguished historian. Bringing his perceptive essays together in
a single volume allows a new generation of students and scholars to
have access to his insights and conclusions.
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