Although the ideas of ""tradition"" and ""modernity"" may seem to
be directly opposed, David Ellenson, a leading contemporary scholar
of modern Jewish thought, understood that these concepts can also
enjoy a more fluid relationship. In honor of Ellenson, editors
Michael A. Meyer and David N. Myers have gathered contributors for
Between Jewish Tradition and Modernity: Rethinking an Old
Opposition to examine the permutations and adaptations of these
intertwined forms of Jewish expression. Contributions draw from a
range of disciplines and scholarly interests and range in subject
from the theological to the liturgical, sociological, and literary.
The geographic and historical focus of the volume is on the United
States and the State of Israel, both of which have been major sites
of inquiry in Ellenson's work. In twenty-two essays, contributors
demonstrate that modernity did not simply replace tradition in
Judaism but rather entered into a variety of relationships with it:
adopting or adapting certain elements, repossessing rituals that
had once been abandoned, or struggling with its continuing
influence. In four parts - Law, Ritual, Thought, and Culture -
contributors explore a variety of subjects, including the role of
reform in Israeli Orthodoxy, traditions of twentieth-century
bar/bat mitzvah, end-of-life ethics, tensions between Zionism and
American Jewry, and the rise of a 1960s New York Jewish
countrerculture. An introductory essay also presents an
appreciation of Ellenson's scholarly contribution. Bringing
together leading Jewish historians, anthropologists, sociologists,
philosophers and liturgists, Between Jewish Tradition and Modernity
offers a collective view of a historically and culturally
significant issue that will be of interest to Jewish scholars of
many discplines. Contributors Include: Adam S. Ferziger, Jack
Wertheimer, Jonathan D. Sarna, Deborah E. Lipstadt, Michael A.
Meyer, Steven M. Lowenstein, William Cutter, Riv-Ellen Prell,
Carole B. Balin, Arnold J. Band, Paula E. Hyman, Zvi Zohar, Elliot
N. Dorff, Isa Aron, Dalia Marx, Arnold M. Eisen, Michael Marmur,
Rachel Adler, Lewis M. Barth, Lawrence A. Hoffman, Wendy I.
Zierler.
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