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Jewish Meaning in a World of Choice: Studies in Tradition and Modernity (A Jps Scholar of Distinction Book)

Jewish Meaning in a World of Choice: Studies in Tradition and Modernity (A Jps Scholar of Distinction Book)

by David Ellenson (Author)

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    Hardcover 2014

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Synopsis

Internationally recognized scholar David Ellenson shares twenty-three of his most representative essays, drawing on three decades of scholarship and demonstrating the consistency of the intellectual-religious interests that have animated him throughout his lifetime.

These essays center on a description and examination of the complex push and pull between Jewish tradition and Western culture. Ellenson addresses gender equality, women's rights, conversion, issues relating to who is a Jew, the future of the rabbinate, Jewish day schools, and other emerging trends in American Jewish life. As an outspoken advocate for a strong Israel that is faithful to the democratic and Jewish values that informed its founders, he also writes about religious tolerance and pluralism in the Jewish state.

The former president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, the primary seminary of the Reform movement, Ellenson is widely respected for his vision of advancing Jewish unity and of preparing leadership for a contemporary Judaism that balances tradition with the demands of a changing world.

Scholars and students of Jewish religious thought, ethics, and modern Jewish history will welcome this erudite collection by one of today's great Jewish leaders.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 376
 Publisher: The Jewish Publication Society
Published: 13 Oct 2014
ISBN 10: 0827612141
ISBN 13: 9780827612143

Media Reviews
This volume is an excellent addition to academic Judaica collections. -Barbara M. Bibel, Jewish Book Council -- Barbara M. Bibel * Jewish Book Council *
Scholars and students of Jewish religious thought, ethics, and modern Jewish history will welcome this erudite collection by one of today's great Jewish leaders. -Jewish Media Review * Jewish Media Review *
This is an excellent collection of articles that any reader interested in the work of David Ellenson and the focus of his scholarship will surely appreciate. -David Tesler, Association of Jewish Libraries -- David Tesler * Association of Jewish Libraries *
A welcome addition to public and college library Judaic Studies shelves. -Midwest Book Review * Midwest Book Review *
For over three decades David Ellenson has shaped the life of world Jewry through the power of his scholarship, depth of vision, and kindness of soul. His uniqueness is that in his writings he searches not to hide or homogenize complexity but rather to study it, celebrate it, and enable it to challenge our preconceptions. This book is critical for all who want to know not only the foundations and struggles of modern Jewish life but, more important, the future direction it can take. -Donniel Hartman, president of the Shalom Hartman Institute

-- Donniel Hartman
From the gifted pen of Rabbi David Ellenson come lucid essays covering Zionism, religious pluralism, feminism, and equal rights that illuminate not only a lifetime of scholarship and activism but also the complex bonds that link Jews in the United States with their forebears in Europe and contemporaries in Israel. Each essay sparkles like a gem, with compelling grace and power. -Deborah Dash Moore, Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan
-- Deborah Dash Moore
Author Bio

David Ellenson is chancellor of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. His book After Emancipation: Jewish Religious Responses to Modernity won the National Jewish Book Council's Award as the outstanding book in Jewish thought in 2005. His most recent book, coauthored with Daniel Gordis, is Pledges of Jewish Allegiance: Conversion, Law, and Policymaking in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Orthodox Responsa.