RT Book
T1 Melilah / Suppl. 1.2012 Normative Judaism? : Jews, Judaism and Jewish identity : proceedings of the British Association for Jewish Studies (BAJS) conference 2008 / editors, Daniel R. Langton and Philip S. Alexander, editorial assistant Francesca Frazer
JF Melilah Manchester Journal of Jewish Studies
A2 Alexander, Philip S. 1947-
A2 Langton, Daniel R.
LA English
PP Manchester
PB Centre for Jewish Studies, Manchester University
YR 2012
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/728838176
AB This supplementary volume of Melilah is a collection of short case studies considering the issue of normatively in Judaism and Jewish identity. The questions of how and why certain aspects of Jewish life and thought come to be regarded as authoritative or normative, rather than inauthentic or marginal, have been and continue to be contentious ones. The approach adopted here is to allow distinct case studies, mainly but not exclusively from the modern period, to speak for themselves. Topics include the philosopher Moses Maimonides, the composer Felix Mendelssohn, the self-perception of communal leadership in Manchester during the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries, a comparison of unpublished sermons by a British Orthodox and a British Reform Rabbi during the First World War, Orthodox rabbinic debate about war in general, representations of Jews in photographic exhibitions, the idea of Jewish music, and the academic study of Judaism itself.
OP 105
NO Includes bibliographical references
CN BM565
SN 978-1-60724-161-4
K1 Judaism : Congresses
K1 Jews : History : Congresses
K1 Jews : Identity : Congresses
K1 Konferenzschrift