Jewish-Christian Difference and Modern Jewish Identity : Seven Twentieth-Century Converts.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (209 pages)
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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Jews--Identity. Jewish converts--Biography. Judaism--Relations--Christianity. Christianity and other religions--Judaism.