Mediating Modernity: Challenges and Trends in the Jewish Encounter with the Modern World
by Jonathan D. Sarna, David Ellenson, Lauren B. Strauss, Michael Brenner, Arnold J. Band, Avraham Barkai, Christhard Hoffmann, David B. Ruderman, Elisheva Carlebach, Ernst Peter Wieckenberg, Evyatar Friesel, Gershon Shaked, Ismar Schorsch, Karla Goldman, Marion Kaplan Kaplan, Michael Stanislawski, Monika Richarz, Paula E. Hyman, Peter Pulzer, Richard I. Cohen, Richard N. Levy, Shmuel Feiner, Steven M. Lowenstein, Susannah Heschel
Mediating Modernity explores the challenges and trends that define the Jewish encounter with the modern world. Featuring contributions from numerous scholars of Jewish history, religion, and culture, this volume offers a broad examination of how modernity has influenced Jewish life, thought, and communal experience.
About This Book
Mediating Modernity examines the Jewish encounter with the modern world through the work of a broad group of scholars.
The volume focuses on challenges and trends connected with modernity, offering perspectives on the ways Jewish life and thought have responded to a changing environment.
With contributions from historians and scholars of Jewish studies, this collection presents a wide-ranging examination of modern Jewish experience.
It is suited to readers interested in Jewish history, religion, culture, and the intellectual dimensions of modernity.
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