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Rabbinic Creativity in the Modern Middle East provides a window for
readers of English around the world into hitherto almost
inaccessible halakhic and ideational writings expressing major
aspects of the cultural intellectual creativity of
Sephardic-Oriental rabbis in modern times. The text has three
sections: Iraq, Syria, and Egypt, and each section discusses a
range of original sources that reflect and represent the creativity
of major rabbinic figures in these countries. The contents of the
writings of these Sephardic rabbis challenge many commonly held
views regarding Judaism's responses to modern challenges. By
bringing an additional, non-Western voice into the intellectual
arena, this book enriches the field of contemporary discussions
regarding the present and future of Judaism. In addition, it
focuses attention on the fact that not only was Judaism a Middle
Eastern phenomenon for most of its existence but that also in
recent centuries important and interesting aspects of Judaism
developed in the Middle East. Both Jews and non-Jews will be
enriched and challenged by this non-Eurocentric view of modern
Judaic creativity.
Rabbinic Creativity in the Modern Middle East provides a window for
readers of English around the world into hitherto almost
inaccessible halakhic and ideational writings expressing major
aspects of the cultural intellectual creativity of
Sephardic-Oriental rabbis in modern times. The text has three
sections: Iraq, Syria, and Egypt, and each section discusses a
range of original sources that reflect and represent the creativity
of major rabbinic figures in these countries. The contents of the
writings of these Sephardic rabbis challenge many commonly held
views regarding Judaism's responses to modern challenges. By
bringing an additional, non-Western voice into the intellectual
arena, this book enriches the field of contemporary discussions
regarding the present and future of Judaism. In addition, it
focuses attention on the fact that not only was Judaism a Middle
Eastern phenomenon for most of its existence but that also in
recent centuries important and interesting aspects of Judaism
developed in the Middle East. Both Jews and non-Jews will be
enriched and challenged by this non-Eurocentric view of modern
Judaic creativity.
Of all Judaic rituals, that of giyyur is arguably the most radical:
it turns a Gentile into a Jew - once and for all and irrevocably.
The very possibility of such a transformation is anomalous,
according to Jewish tradition, which regards Jewishness as an
ascriptive status entered through birth to a Jewish mother.What is
the internal logic of the ritual of giyyur, that seems to enable a
Gentile to acquire an 'ascribed' identity? It is to this question,
and others deriving from it, that the authors address
themselves.Interpretation of a ritual such as giyyur is linked to
broad issues of anthropology, religion and culture: the relation of
'nature' and 'culture' in the construction of group boundaries; the
tension between ethnicity and religion; the interrelation of
individual identity and membership in a collective. Fully aware of
these issues, this groundbreaking study focuses upon a close
reading of primary halakhic texts from Talmudic times down to the
present as key to the explication of meaning within the Judaic
tradition.In our times, the meaning of Jewish identity is a core
issue, directly affecting the public debate regarding the relative
weight of religion, nationality and kinship in determining basic
aspects of Jewish life throughout the world. This book constitutes
a seminal contribution to this ongoing discussion: it enables
access to a wealth of halakhic sources previously accessible only
to rabbinic scholars, fleshes out their meanings and implications
within the cultural history of halakha, and in doing so situates
halakha at the nexus of contemporary cultural discourse.The Robert
and Arlene Kogod Library of Judaic Studies publishes new research
which serves to enhance the quality of dialogue between Jewish
classical sources and the modern world, to enrich the meanings of
Jewish thought and to explore the varieties of Jewish life.
Of all Judaic rituals, that of giyyur is arguably the most radical:
it turns a Gentile into a Jew once and for all and irrevocably. The
very possibility of such a transformation is anomalous, according
to Jewish tradition, which regards Jewishness as an ascriptive
status entered through birth to a Jewish mother.What is the
internal logic of the ritual of giyyur, that seems to enable a
Gentile to acquire an ascribed identity? It is to this question,
and others deriving from it, that the authors address
themselves.Interpretation of a ritual such as giyyur is linked to
broad issues of anthropology, religion and culture: the relation of
nature and culture in the construction of group boundaries; the
tension between ethnicity and religion; the interrelation of
individual identity and membership in a collective. Fully aware of
these issues, this groundbreaking study focuses upon a close
reading of primary halakhic texts from Talmudic times down to the
present as key to the explication of meaning within the Judaic
tradition.In our times, the meaning of Jewish identity is a core
issue, directly affecting the public debate regarding the relative
weight of religion, nationality and kinship in determining basic
aspects of Jewish life throughout the world. This book constitutes
a seminal contribution to this ongoing discussion: it enables
access to a wealth of halakhic sources previously accessible only
to rabbinic scholars, fleshes out their meanings and implications
within the cultural history of halakha, and in doing so situates
halakha at the nexus of contemporary cultural discourse.
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