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Toleration within Judaism

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

AvMartin Goodman,Joseph E. David,Corinna R. Kaiser,Simon Levis Sullam

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The Bible itself calls the Jewish people ‘a company of nations’, suggesting that difference within Judaism is not a new phenomenon. It has continued throughout Jewish history, and this volume investigates how and why such difference has been tolerated. Drawing on examples from different geographical areas and from ancient times to the present, the contributors consider why Jews sometimes attempt to impose constraints on other Jews or relate to them as if they were not Jews at all, but at other times recognize differences of practice and belief and develop ways of handling them. In doing so, they provide an insight into a history of Judaism as a complex web of interactions between groups of Jews despite grounds for mutual antagonism. Substantial introductory chapters lay out the issues and provide an extensive survey of casesof toleration throughout the past two thousand years, outlining possible structural reasonsfor it. The eight chapters that follow each take a specific case of toleration within Judaism, attempting to explain it in light of the models outlined in the Introduction. Presented in chronological order, the cases have been selected to reflect a spectrum of responses, from grudging forbearance to enthusiastic welcome of difference. Covering both practice and theology, each case is presented in depth, with full documentation. The Conclusion provides an overview of the patterns of tolerance that have emerged and discusses the implications for writing the history of Judaism as a narrative more complex than either the tracing of a linear progression from the Bible to the present, with variations presented as deviations, or as a model of overlapping ‘Judaisms’.This innovative volume sheds light on an important and overlooked aspect of the history ofJudaism and should have broad appeal, not only for students and scholars of Judaism butfor students of religious studies more generally.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2013-05-30
Mått135 x 235 x 30 mm
Vikt658 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieLittman Library of Jewish Civilization
Antal sidor246
FörlagLiverpool University Press
ISBN9781906764173

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Martin Goodman is Professor of Jewish Studies in the University of Oxford, a Fellow of Wolfson College, and a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Among his books on Jewish history are Rome and Jerusalem (2007) and Judaism in the Roman World: Collected Essays (2007). Joseph E. David is Senior Lecturer in Law and Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Sapir Academic College. He has been a visiting professor at Rutgers, the University of Pennsylvania, and New York University, and a faculty member at the University of Oxford. He is the author of The Family and the Political: On Belonging and Responsibility in a Liberal Society' (2012) and 'Between Logos and Nomos: Law and Theology in Medieval Jewish Thought' (forthcoming). Corinna R. Kaiser has taught at the universities of Düsseldorf, Giessen, and Rutgers, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the University of Oxford. She recently returned to Düsseldorf as a lecturer. She specializes in the cultural, ritual, and media history of the Jews in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Simon Levis Sullam is Assistant Professor of Modern History at Ca' Foscari, University of Venice. He has held visiting positions at Berkeley, at the European University Institute, and at the University of Oxford. His publications on Jewish history include a modern history of the Jews of Venice ('Una Comunità Immaginata', 2001) and (as co-editor) the multi-volume 'Storia della Shoah' (2006-10).

PrefaceNote on Transliteration1Introduction: The Study of Toleration2Toleration within Judaism from the Second Temple to the Present3Sadduccees and Pharisees in the Temple Martin Goodman 4The Houses of Hillel and Shammai in the MishnahMartin Goodman5The Notion of Tolerable Error from the Mishnah to MaimonidesJoseph E. David6Talmudic Controversies in Post-Talmudic EyesJoseph E. David7Toleration in the Ghetto of Venice: Evidence from Leon Modena's Historia de' riti HebraiciSimon Levis Sullam 8Prescribing Toleration in the Paris Sanhedrin (1806–1807)Simon Levis Sullam9Islets of Toleration among the Jews of CuraçaoCorinna R. Kaiser10Sitting on Fences: The Toleration of Compromise and Mixed Seating in Orthodox Synagogues in the USACorinna R. Kaiser11Conclusion: Causes of TolerationBibliographyIndex