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Religion or Ethnicity? - Jewish Identities in Evolution (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,992
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Religion or Ethnicity? - Jewish Identities in Evolution (Hardcover): Zvi Gitelman

Religion or Ethnicity? - Jewish Identities in Evolution (Hardcover)

Zvi Gitelman

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Can someone be considered Jewish if he or she never goes to synagogue, doesn't keep kosher, and for whom the only connection to his or her ancestral past is attending an annual Passover seder?

In Religion or Ethnicity? fifteen leading scholars trace the evolution of Jewish identity. The book examines Judaism from the Greco-Roman age, through medieval times, modern western and eastern Europe, to today. Jewish identity has been defined as an ethnicity, a nation, a culture, and even a race. Religion or Ethnicity? questions what it means to be Jewish. The contributors show how the Jewish people have evolved over time in different ethnic, religious, and political movements. In his closing essay, Gitelman questions the viability of secular Jewishness outside Israel but suggests that the continued interest in exploring the relationship between Judaism's secular and religious forms will keep the heritage alive for generations to come.

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Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: May 2009
First published: July 2009
Editors: Zvi Gitelman
Dimensions: 236 x 160 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-4450-2
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Jewish studies
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LSN: 0-8135-4450-5
Barcode: 9780813544502

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