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The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies (Paperback, New ed)
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The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies (Paperback, New ed)
Series: Oxford Handbooks
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The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies is part of a major new series
of Oxford Handbooks. The volume on Jewish Studies reflects the aim
of the series to produce distinctive and original surveys of
today's interests and directions in the Humanities and Social
Sciences. The Handbook covers all the main areas currently taught
and researched as part of Jewish Studies in universities in Europe,
the United States, and Israel. The span of the volume
chronologically and geographically is thus enormous, but all
contributors have in common their expertise in the study of the
history, literature, religion, and culture of the Jews. Jewish
Studies is a comparatively young discipline which has grown over
the past fifty years in a somewhat undisciplined way. In a period
of great upheaval for Jews following the Holocaust, the creation of
the State of Israel, the emergence of new forms of dialogue between
Jews and Christians, deepening divisions between secular and
religious Jews, and unprecedented assimilation by diaspora Jews to
the wider culture, the study of Jewish traditions and history has
rarely been dispassionate. This is a good time to examine where we
are and where the subject is going. There have been some attempts
in recent years to encapsulate current conclusions about particular
aspects of Jewish Studies, but these other works aim to provide
compendia of agreed facts rather than a survey of interests and
directions such as is found in the Oxford Handbook. The Handbook
begins with an examination of Jewish Studies as an academic
discipline in its own right. The first half of the volume is
organized chronologically, followed by sections on languages and
literature, general aspects of religion, and other branches of
Jewish Studies which have each accumulated a considerable corpus of
scholarship over the past half-century. This substantial volume of
c.400,000 words reflects the current state of scholarship as
analysed by an international team of experts in the different and
varied fields represented within contemporary Jewish Studies.
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