BETWEEN JEWISH TRADITION AND MODERNITY Rethinking an Old Opposition, Essays in Honor of David Ellenson

Michael A. Meyer

ISBN 10: 0814338593 / ISBN 13: 9780814338599

Published by Wayne State University Press, Michigan, 2014

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Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. ; 9.1 X 6.2 X 1.3 inches; 384 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: BETWEEN JEWISH TRADITION AND MODERNITY Rethinking an Old Opposition, Essays in Honor of David Ellenson
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press, Michigan
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0814338593
• ISBN 13: 9780814338599
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Discounted
  • Judaica

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Synopsis

Brings together leading Jewish scholars to explore the developing interrelation between tradition and change within modern Judaism.

About the Author

Michael A. Meyer is Adolph S. Ochs Professor of Jewish History Emeritus at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the author or editor of a dozen books and has published more than two hundred scholarly articles.

David N. Myers is professor of Jewish history at UCLA. He is the author of Re-Inventing the Jewish Past: European Jewish Intellectuals and the Zionist Return to History, Resisting History: Historicism and Its Discontents in German-Jewish Thought, and Between Jew and Arab: The Lost Voice of Simon Rawidowicz; and the editor of six books, including The Jewish Past Revisited and Enlightenment and Diaspora: The Armenian and Jewish Cases.