Description
Can someone be considered Jewish if he or she never goes to synagogue, doesn't keep kosher, and for whom the only connection to his or her ancestral past is attending an annual Passover seder?
Book Information
ISBN 9780813544502
Author Zvi Gitelman
Format Hardback
Page Count 416
Imprint Rutgers University Press
Publisher Rutgers University Press
Weight(grams) 624g
In Religion or Ethnicity? fifteen leading scholars trace the evolution of Jewish identity. The book examines Judaism from the Greco-Roman age, through medieval times, modern western and eastern Europe, to today. Jewish identity has been defined as an ethnicity, a nation, a culture, and even a race. Religion or Ethnicity? questions what it means to be Jewish. The contributors show how the Jewish people have evolved over time in different ethnic, religious, and political movements. In his closing essay, Gitelman questions the viability of secular Jewishness outside Israel but suggests that the continued interest in exploring the relationship between Judaism's secular and religious forms will keep the heritage alive for generations to come.
Book Information
ISBN 9780813544502
Author Zvi Gitelman
Format Hardback
Page Count 416
Imprint Rutgers University Press
Publisher Rutgers University Press
Weight(grams) 624g
