Routledge Jewish Studies Series
About the Book Series
Studies, which are interpreted to cover the disciplines of history, sociology, anthropology, culture, politics, philosophy, theology, religion, as they relate to Jewish affairs. The remit includes texts which have as their primary focus issues, ideas, personalities and events of relevance to Jews, Jewish life and the concepts which have characterised Jewish culture both in the past and today. The series is interested in receiving appropriate scripts or proposals.
Jewish Women's Torah Study: Orthodox Religious Education and Modernity
1st Edition
By Ilan Fuchs
July 23, 2015
One of the cornerstones of the religious Jewish experience in all its variations is Torah study, and this learning is considered a central criterion for leadership. Jewish Women’s Torah Study addresses the question of women's integration in the halachic-religious system at this pivotal intersection...
Jewish Education and History: Continuity, crisis and change
1st Edition
By Moshe Aberbach
April 07, 2015
Moshe Aberbach (1924-2007) was a leading educator and scholar in Jewish studies, specialising in the field of Jewish education in the talmudic period. This book draws on a representative selection of his writings over a fifty year period, and includes essays on Saadia Gaon and Maimonides, coverage ...
God, Jews and the Media: Religion and Israel’s Media
1st Edition
By Yoel Cohen
April 27, 2015
In order to understand contemporary Jewish identity in the twenty-first century, one needs to look beyond the Synagogue, the holy days and Jewish customs and law to explore such modern phenomena as mass media and their impact upon Jewish existence. This book delves into the complex relationship ...
German-Jewish Popular Culture before the Holocaust: Kafka's kitsch
1st Edition
By David A. Brenner
March 28, 2014
David A. Brenner examines how Jews in Central Europe developed one of the first "ethnic" or "minority" cultures in modernity. Not exclusively "German" or "Jewish," the experiences of German-speaking Jewry in the decades prior to the Third Reich and the Holocaust were also negotiated in encounters ...
The Jews as a Chosen People: Tradition and transformation
1st Edition
By S. Leyla Gurkan
March 28, 2014
The concept of the Jews as a chosen people is a key element of the Jewish faith and identity. This book explores the idea of chosenness from the ancient world, through modernity and into the Post-Holocaust era. Analysing a vast corpus of biblical, ancient, rabbinic and modern Jewish literature, ...
Collaboration with the Nazis: Public Discourse after the Holocaust
1st Edition
Edited
By Roni Stauber
March 21, 2014
This book examines the changes in representing collaboration, during the Holocaust, especially in the destruction of European Jewry, in the public discourse and the historiography of various countries in Europe that were occupied by the Germans, or were considered, at least during part of the war, ...
The Holocaust and Representations of Jews: History and Identity in the Museum
1st Edition
By K. Hannah Holtschneider
March 21, 2014
The Holocaust and Representations of Jews examines how prominent national exhibitions in Europe represent the Jewish minority and its cultural and religious self-understandings, historically and today, in particular in the context of the Holocaust. Insights from the New Museology are brought to ...
Voltaire's Jews and Modern Jewish Identity: Rethinking the Enlightenment
1st Edition
By Harvey Mitchell
March 21, 2014
Harvey Mitchell’s book argues that a reassessment of Voltaire’s treatment of traditional Judaism will sharpen discussion of the origins of, and responses to, the Enlightenment. His study shows how Voltaire’s nearly total antipathy to Judaism is best understood by stressing his self-regard as ...
The Faith and Doubt of Holocaust Survivors
1st Edition
By Reeve Robert Brenner
January 30, 2014
The Faith and Doubt of Holocaust Survivors reveals the victims' frank and thought-provoking answers to searching questions about their experiences: Was the Holocaust God's will? Was there any meaning or purpose in the Holocaust? Was Israel worth the price six million had to pay? Did the experience ...
Jews and Judaism in Modern China
1st Edition
By M. Avrum Ehrlich
August 07, 2013
Jews and Judaism in Modern China explores and compares the dynamics at work in two of the oldest, intact and starkly contrasting civilizations on earth; Jewish and Chinese. The book studies how they interact in modernity and how each civilization views the other, and analyses areas of cooperation ...
Political Theologies in the Holy Land: Israeli Messianism and its Critics
1st Edition
By David Ohana
March 11, 2013
This book examines the role of messianism in Zionist ideology, from the birth of the Zionist movement through to the present. Is shows how messianism is not just a religious or philosophical term but a very tangible political practice and theology which has shaped Israeli identity. The author ...
Jewish Blood: Reality and metaphor in history, religion and culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Mitchell Hart
February 27, 2013
This book deals with the Jewish engagement with blood: animal and human, real and metaphorical. Concentrating on the meaning or significance of blood in Judaism, the book moves this highly controversial subject away from its traditional focus, exploring how Jews themselves engage with blood and its...