Between Jewish Tradition and Modernity : Rethinking an Old Opposition, Essays in Honor of David Ellenson.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: At the Border: David Ellenson and the Study of Modern Judaism -- PART 1: LAW -- 1. Caring for an Intermarried Jew by Converting His Partner: Rabbi Uzziel's Earliest Responsum on Giyur (Salonica, c. 1922) -- 2. Gaining Moral Guidance from the Jewish Tradition: Four Examples to Test David Ellenson's Approach and Mine -- 3. The Role of Reform in Israeli Orthodoxy -- 4. Between "West Point Standards" and Life in the Trenches: The Halakhic Dilemmas of Orthodox Outreach Workers -- 5. The Touro Monument Controversy: Aniconism vs. Anti-Idolatry in a Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Jewish Religious Dispute -- PART 2: RITUAL -- 6. Reverse Engineering the Twentieth-Century Bar/Bat Mitzvah -- 7. "And It Not Be Stilled": The Legacy of Debbie Friedman -- 8. From the Rhine Valley to Jezreel Valley: Innovative Versions of the Mourners' Kaddish in the Kibbutz Movement -- 9. New Waters in an Old Vessel: A History of Mikveh in Modern Judaism -- 10. German Jewry and Dutch Jewry: Two Separate Paths to Modernity -- PART 3: THOUGHT -- 11. Zionism, American Jewry, and the "Negation of Diaspora" -- 12. Traditional Exemplars in a Time of Crisis -- 13. Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Rav J. B. Soloveitchik's Perspective on Gender -- 14. The Tendency of Stories and the Ethics of Life's Endings -- 15. Thoughts on Forgiveness in Psychoanalysis and Judaism -- PART 4: CULTURE -- 16. Ethnicity, Religion, and Spirituality in Postwar Jewish America -- 17. Complicating a Jewish Modernity: The Jewish Theological Seminary, Columbia University, and the Rise of a Jewish Counterculture in 1968 -- 18. Reform Rabbis, Betty Friedan, and the Uses of "Tradition" -- 19. On Memento: Remaking Memory from the Outside In.

20. At the Centenary of Agnon's "Ve-hayah he'akov le-mishor": A New Reading -- Coda: From Tradition to Radicalism: Jewish Women in Pre-Holocaust Poland -- Bibliography of Works by David Ellenson -- List of Contributors -- Index.

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