Jewish Orthodoxy and its discontents : religious dissidence in contemporary Israel /

In this book, the author utilizes anthropological research to analyze both macro and micro social processes among secular and Orthodox Jews in Israel. She covers such complex issues as the tensions between the two groups and the radicalization of Israeli Jewish Orthodoxy in the last thirty years. Th...

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Author / Creator: Topel, Marta F.
Format: Book
Language:English
Imprint: Lanham, MD : University Press of America, [2012]
Series:Ann & Jean Burnstine Book Fund for Jewish Studies (Wellesley College)
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Local Note:Gift of the Ann & Jean Burnstine Book Fund for Jewish Studies.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. The Disenchantment of the World and the Dismantlement of Rabbinical Judaism
  • Chapter 2. Religion and Religious Coercion in the State of Israel
  • Chapter 3. Religious Dissidents, the New Marranos and the Discontented; or, Of a Certain Unrest in the Orthodox Universe
  • Chapter 4. Separation: In Search of Questions
  • Chapter 5. In the Margin of the Margins
  • Chapter 6. Incorporation: A Limited Number of Answers to a Great Many Questions
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index