Eugene B. Borowitz and Frances Weinman Schwartz. The Jewish Moral Virtues. Philadelphia: JPS, 1999. xxii, 360 pp.; Aaron Levine. Case Studies in Jewish Business Ethics. The Library of Jewish Law and Ethics, Volume XXII. Hoboken: KTAV and New York: Yeshiva University Press, 2000. xviii, 419 pp.; Byron Sherwin. Jewish Ethics for the Twenty-First Century: Living in the Image of God. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2000. xxvi, 203 pp.
While each of these three books is about Jewish ethics, they take very different approaches to the topic, serve different purposes, and speak to different audiences. If nothing else, they—and a number of other books about Jewish ethics published in recent years—collectively demonstrate that Jews are...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
2002
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AJS review
Year: 2002, Volume: 26, Issue: 1, Pages: 198-202 |
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| Summary: | While each of these three books is about Jewish ethics, they take very different approaches to the topic, serve different purposes, and speak to different audiences. If nothing else, they—and a number of other books about Jewish ethics published in recent years—collectively demonstrate that Jews are paying serious attention not only to the theological, legal, historical, social, and cultural aspects of Jewish identity, but also to the Jewish tradition's moral import. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4541 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Association for Jewish Studies, AJS review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0364009402570045 |