Jacob Ari Labendz is Director of the Center for Judaic and Holocaust Studies and Clayman Assistant Professor of Judaic and Holocaust Studies at Youngstown State University. He is the editor of Jewish Property After 1945: Cultures and Economies of Ownership, Loss, Recovery, and Transfer. Shmuly Yanklowitz is President and Dean at Valley Beit Midrash, Founder and President of Uri L'Tzedek, Founder and CEO of the Shamayim V'Aretz Institute, and Founder and President of YATOM: The Jewish Foster and Adoption Network. He is the author of many books, including Pirkei Avot: A Social Justice Commentary, Postmodern Jewish Ethics: Emerging Social Justice Paradigms, and The Jewish Vegan.

• Illustrations Introduction: Considering Jewish Veganism and Vegetarianism Jacob Ari Labendz and Shmuly Yanklowitz Part I. Studies 1. The Slipperiness of Animal Suffering: Revisiting the Talmud’s Classic Treatment Beth A. Berkowitz2. Vegetarianism as Jewish Culture and Politics in Interwar Europe Nick Underwood3. "I am a Vegetarian": The Vegetarianism of Melech Ravitch Irad Ben Isaak4. Farm Animal Welfare in Jewish Art and Literature Hadas Marcus5. Vegetarianism and Veganism among Jewish Punks Michael Croland6. Opening the Tent: Jewish Veganism as an Expression of an Ecological Form of Judaism Adrienne Krone7. A Linguistic Appraisal: Jewish Perceptions of Animal Suffering Victoria Greenstone and Shlomi Shmuel Part II. New Directions 8. Veganism and Covenantalism: Contrasting and Overlapping Moralities David Mevorach Seidenberg9. Musar and Jewish Veganism Geoffrey D. Claussen10. The Vegetarian Teachings of Rav Kook Richard H. Schwartz and David Sears11. Relevant and Irrelevant Distinctions: Speciesism, Judaism, and Veganism Alan D. Krinsky12. A Morally Generative Tension: Conflicting Jewish Commitments to Humans and Animals Shmuly Yanklowitz13. Linking Judaism and Veganism in Darkness and in Light Sherry F. Colb14. Jewish Veganism as an Embodied Practice: A Vegan Agenda for Cultural Jews Jacob Ari LabendzReport: Jewish Vegan and Vegetarian Movements in North America Sarah Chandler and Jeffrey CohanAfterword Aaron S. GrossContributors Index

"[A] highly recommended collection of essays." — Journal of Jewish Ethics"Whether looking at the pages of the Talmud, vegetarian poems written in Yiddish, lyrics written by Jewish punk rockers, or into a pot of vegan matzo ball soup, this book explores the many ways in which Jews have questioned the ethics of eating animals. Labendz and Yanklowitz achieve their stated goal of exploring 'what distinguishes Jewish veganism and vegetarianism as Jewish.' You do not have to be a vegetarian or a vegan (or Jewish!) in order to learn from, and indeed grapple with, the many questions, dilemmas, and readings that the contributors raise." — Jordan D. Rosenblum, author of The Jewish Dietary Laws in the Ancient World"Jewish Veganism and Vegetarianism offers theological, pragmatic, ethical, environmental, and other ways to view non-meat eating as a viable, healthy, and holy Judaic strategy to consume the world. Anyone who eats or thinks about eating should take this volume seriously." — Rabbi Jonathan K. Crane, author of Eating Ethically: Religion and Science for a Better Diet"From the Talmud's ambivalence about human and animal suffering to the challenges of making a vegan matzo ball, Jewish Veganism and Vegetarianism offers surprising views of the many ways Jewish practice, Jewish culture, and individual Jews acted and reacted in their encounters with a vegetable diet. This important and overdue book does much to introduce a long-neglected chapter of Jewish culinary practice and to inspire and instruct future research." — Eve Jochnowitz, cotranslator of Fania Lewando's The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook: Garden-Fresh Recipes Rediscovered and Adapted for Today's Kitchen

Jacob Ari Labendz is Director of the Center for Judaic and Holocaust Studies and Clayman Assistant Professor of Judaic and Holocaust Studies at Youngstown State University. He is the editor of Jewish Property After 1945: Cultures and Economies of Ownership, Loss, Recovery, and Transfer. Shmuly Yanklowitz is President and Dean at Valley Beit Midrash, Founder and President of Uri L'Tzedek, Founder and CEO of the Shamayim V'Aretz Institute, and Founder and President of YATOM: The Jewish Foster and Adoption Network. He is the author of many books, including Pirkei Avot: A Social Justice Commentary, Postmodern Jewish Ethics: Emerging Social Justice Paradigms, and The Jewish Vegan.

• Illustrations Introduction: Considering Jewish Veganism and Vegetarianism Jacob Ari Labendz and Shmuly Yanklowitz Part I. Studies 1. The Slipperiness of Animal Suffering: Revisiting the Talmud’s Classic Treatment Beth A. Berkowitz2. Vegetarianism as Jewish Culture and Politics in Interwar Europe Nick Underwood3. "I am a Vegetarian": The Vegetarianism of Melech Ravitch Irad Ben Isaak4. Farm Animal Welfare in Jewish Art and Literature Hadas Marcus5. Vegetarianism and Veganism among Jewish Punks Michael Croland6. Opening the Tent: Jewish Veganism as an Expression of an Ecological Form of Judaism Adrienne Krone7. A Linguistic Appraisal: Jewish Perceptions of Animal Suffering Victoria Greenstone and Shlomi Shmuel Part II. New Directions 8. Veganism and Covenantalism: Contrasting and Overlapping Moralities David Mevorach Seidenberg9. Musar and Jewish Veganism Geoffrey D. Claussen10. The Vegetarian Teachings of Rav Kook Richard H. Schwartz and David Sears11. Relevant and Irrelevant Distinctions: Speciesism, Judaism, and Veganism Alan D. Krinsky12. A Morally Generative Tension: Conflicting Jewish Commitments to Humans and Animals Shmuly Yanklowitz13. Linking Judaism and Veganism in Darkness and in Light Sherry F. Colb14. Jewish Veganism as an Embodied Practice: A Vegan Agenda for Cultural Jews Jacob Ari LabendzReport: Jewish Vegan and Vegetarian Movements in North America Sarah Chandler and Jeffrey CohanAfterword Aaron S. GrossContributors Index

"[A] highly recommended collection of essays." — Journal of Jewish Ethics"Whether looking at the pages of the Talmud, vegetarian poems written in Yiddish, lyrics written by Jewish punk rockers, or into a pot of vegan matzo ball soup, this book explores the many ways in which Jews have questioned the ethics of eating animals. Labendz and Yanklowitz achieve their stated goal of exploring 'what distinguishes Jewish veganism and vegetarianism as Jewish.' You do not have to be a vegetarian or a vegan (or Jewish!) in order to learn from, and indeed grapple with, the many questions, dilemmas, and readings that the contributors raise." — Jordan D. Rosenblum, author of The Jewish Dietary Laws in the Ancient World"Jewish Veganism and Vegetarianism offers theological, pragmatic, ethical, environmental, and other ways to view non-meat eating as a viable, healthy, and holy Judaic strategy to consume the world. Anyone who eats or thinks about eating should take this volume seriously." — Rabbi Jonathan K. Crane, author of Eating Ethically: Religion and Science for a Better Diet"From the Talmud's ambivalence about human and animal suffering to the challenges of making a vegan matzo ball, Jewish Veganism and Vegetarianism offers surprising views of the many ways Jewish practice, Jewish culture, and individual Jews acted and reacted in their encounters with a vegetable diet. This important and overdue book does much to introduce a long-neglected chapter of Jewish culinary practice and to inspire and instruct future research." — Eve Jochnowitz, cotranslator of Fania Lewando's The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook: Garden-Fresh Recipes Rediscovered and Adapted for Today's Kitchen

Jacob Ari Labendz is Director of the Center for Judaic and Holocaust Studies and Clayman Assistant Professor of Judaic and Holocaust Studies at Youngstown State University. He is the editor of Jewish Property After 1945: Cultures and Economies of Ownership, Loss, Recovery, and Transfer. Shmuly Yanklowitz is President and Dean at Valley Beit Midrash, Founder and President of Uri L'Tzedek, Founder and CEO of the Shamayim V'Aretz Institute, and Founder and President of YATOM: The Jewish Foster and Adoption Network. He is the author of many books, including Pirkei Avot: A Social Justice Commentary, Postmodern Jewish Ethics: Emerging Social Justice Paradigms, and The Jewish Vegan.

• Illustrations Introduction: Considering Jewish Veganism and Vegetarianism Jacob Ari Labendz and Shmuly Yanklowitz Part I. Studies 1. The Slipperiness of Animal Suffering: Revisiting the Talmud’s Classic Treatment Beth A. Berkowitz2. Vegetarianism as Jewish Culture and Politics in Interwar Europe Nick Underwood3. "I am a Vegetarian": The Vegetarianism of Melech Ravitch Irad Ben Isaak4. Farm Animal Welfare in Jewish Art and Literature Hadas Marcus5. Vegetarianism and Veganism among Jewish Punks Michael Croland6. Opening the Tent: Jewish Veganism as an Expression of an Ecological Form of Judaism Adrienne Krone7. A Linguistic Appraisal: Jewish Perceptions of Animal Suffering Victoria Greenstone and Shlomi Shmuel Part II. New Directions 8. Veganism and Covenantalism: Contrasting and Overlapping Moralities David Mevorach Seidenberg9. Musar and Jewish Veganism Geoffrey D. Claussen10. The Vegetarian Teachings of Rav Kook Richard H. Schwartz and David Sears11. Relevant and Irrelevant Distinctions: Speciesism, Judaism, and Veganism Alan D. Krinsky12. A Morally Generative Tension: Conflicting Jewish Commitments to Humans and Animals Shmuly Yanklowitz13. Linking Judaism and Veganism in Darkness and in Light Sherry F. Colb14. Jewish Veganism as an Embodied Practice: A Vegan Agenda for Cultural Jews Jacob Ari LabendzReport: Jewish Vegan and Vegetarian Movements in North America Sarah Chandler and Jeffrey CohanAfterword Aaron S. GrossContributors Index

"[A] highly recommended collection of essays." — Journal of Jewish Ethics"Whether looking at the pages of the Talmud, vegetarian poems written in Yiddish, lyrics written by Jewish punk rockers, or into a pot of vegan matzo ball soup, this book explores the many ways in which Jews have questioned the ethics of eating animals. Labendz and Yanklowitz achieve their stated goal of exploring 'what distinguishes Jewish veganism and vegetarianism as Jewish.' You do not have to be a vegetarian or a vegan (or Jewish!) in order to learn from, and indeed grapple with, the many questions, dilemmas, and readings that the contributors raise." — Jordan D. Rosenblum, author of The Jewish Dietary Laws in the Ancient World"Jewish Veganism and Vegetarianism offers theological, pragmatic, ethical, environmental, and other ways to view non-meat eating as a viable, healthy, and holy Judaic strategy to consume the world. Anyone who eats or thinks about eating should take this volume seriously." — Rabbi Jonathan K. Crane, author of Eating Ethically: Religion and Science for a Better Diet"From the Talmud's ambivalence about human and animal suffering to the challenges of making a vegan matzo ball, Jewish Veganism and Vegetarianism offers surprising views of the many ways Jewish practice, Jewish culture, and individual Jews acted and reacted in their encounters with a vegetable diet. This important and overdue book does much to introduce a long-neglected chapter of Jewish culinary practice and to inspire and instruct future research." — Eve Jochnowitz, cotranslator of Fania Lewando's The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook: Garden-Fresh Recipes Rediscovered and Adapted for Today's Kitchen