1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Judaism in the 21st Century
Introduction Keren Eva Fraiman & Dean Phillip Bell
Part I: Identities and Geographies
1. Who is a Jew in the 21st Century?: The Fractalization of Jewish Identity David Gottlieb
2. The Polarizing Politics of Peoplehood: Judaism and Collective Identity in the 21st Century Noam Pianko
3. The Future of Jewish Demography Sergio DellaPergola
4. Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Israeli Society Sammy Smooha
5. Hebrew and Jewish Diaspora Languages Sarah Bunin Benor
6. We Are All Jews: The Jewish Other and the Other as Jew in Sartre, Levinas, and Blanchot Michael Portal and Claire Elise Katz
Part II: Structures and Power
7. Powerful and Powerless: Jews, Government, and Race in Contemporary America Marc Dollinger
8. Israel: Internal, Regional, and International Issues and Challenges Ehud Eiran
9. Memory, Memorialization, and the Shoah after "the End of History"? Manuela Consonni
10. The Institutionalization of American Jewry Ari Y. Kelman
11. Economics and American Judaism in the 21st Century Carmel U. Chiswick
12. Transmuted Chosenness: "The Jewish Family" as Functional Religion in the U.S. Lilah Shapiro
13. Gender Matters: Intermarried Jewish Men, Identity, and Parenting in an Age of Pluralism Keren R. McGinity
14. As If Forced by a Demon: Traditional Orthodox and Sexual Modesty Codes and Modern Times Simcha Feuerman
Part III. Knowledge and Performance
15. The Bible in the 21st Century Leonard J. Greenspoon
16. The Talmud Today Mira Beth Wasserman
17. 21st Century Rituals and Customs Amy K. Milligan
18. A Digital Revolution?: Jewish Sacred Literature in the 21st Century Joseph A. Skloot
19. 21st Century Jewish Canons Claire E. Sufrin
20. God, Covenant, and Authority William Plevan
21. New Horizons of Revelation on the Axis of 21st Century Jewish Theology Miriam Feldmann Kaye
22. Jewish Life and Planet Earth in the 21st Century Nigel Savage
23. The Sounds of 21st Century Judaism Judah M. Cohen and Gordon Dale
24. Jewish Literature and Jews and Literature Josh Lambert
25. Looking Jewish in Century 21 Larry Silver.
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Keren Eva Fraiman is Dean/Chief Academic Officer and Associate Professor of Israel Studies at Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership, Chicago, USA.
Dean Phillip Bell is President/Chief Executive Officer and Professor of Jewish History at Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership, Chicago, USA.
