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Jewish-Christian Difference and Modern Jewish Identity : Seven Twentieth-Century Converts.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (209 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780739196090
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Jewish-Christian Difference and Modern Jewish IdentityDDC classification:
  • 261.2/6
LOC classification:
  • DS143.G6137 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue: Demons' Wager -- 1 Who Is A Jew? -- 2 The Conversions of Ruth Ben David: (Madeleine Feraille, 1920-2000) -- 3 Jean-Marie Lustiger, the "Jewish Cardinal" (1926-2007) -- 4 Donato Manduzio and the Converts of San Nicandro: A Group Conversion to Judaism in 1940s Italy (Donato Manduzio, 1885-1948) -- 5 Happy About His Conversion, Miserable About His Apostasy: The 1945 Apostasy of Rabbi Zolli Revisited (Israel Zolli, 1881-1956) -- 6 "Ruth from the Banks of the Volga": Elisheva Bikhovsky (Elizaveta Ivanova Zhirkova, 1888-1949) -- 7 Apostasy and Citizenship: The Case of Brother Daniel (Oswald Rufeisen, 1922-1998) -- 8 Moishe Rosen, Founder of Jews for Jesus (1932-2010) -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
Summary: Jewish-Christian Difference and Modern Jewish Identity: Seven Twentieth-Century Converts contends that in the twentieth century the borders dividing the Jewish and Christian faiths have, for many people, become fluid.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue: Demons' Wager -- 1 Who Is A Jew? -- 2 The Conversions of Ruth Ben David: (Madeleine Feraille, 1920-2000) -- 3 Jean-Marie Lustiger, the "Jewish Cardinal" (1926-2007) -- 4 Donato Manduzio and the Converts of San Nicandro: A Group Conversion to Judaism in 1940s Italy (Donato Manduzio, 1885-1948) -- 5 Happy About His Conversion, Miserable About His Apostasy: The 1945 Apostasy of Rabbi Zolli Revisited (Israel Zolli, 1881-1956) -- 6 "Ruth from the Banks of the Volga": Elisheva Bikhovsky (Elizaveta Ivanova Zhirkova, 1888-1949) -- 7 Apostasy and Citizenship: The Case of Brother Daniel (Oswald Rufeisen, 1922-1998) -- 8 Moishe Rosen, Founder of Jews for Jesus (1932-2010) -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

Jewish-Christian Difference and Modern Jewish Identity: Seven Twentieth-Century Converts contends that in the twentieth century the borders dividing the Jewish and Christian faiths have, for many people, become fluid.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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