Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
Religion or Ethnicity? : Jewish Identities in Evolution, Paperback / softback Book

Religion or Ethnicity? : Jewish Identities in Evolution Paperback / softback

Edited by Zvi Gitelman

Paperback / softback

Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks

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?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.

Information

Save 12%

£35.00

£30.69

Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information