TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ben-Rafael,Eliezer
TI  - Jewish Identities: Fifty Intellectuals Answer Ben-Gurion
T2  - Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
SN  - 9789047401452
AV  - DS143 
U1  - 305.892/4 21
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Ben-Gurion, David,
KW  - Jews
KW  - Identity
KW  - Israel
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Who and what is a Jew? Is there any common denominator between an ultra-Orthodox rabbi of an Israeli North African community and a Berkeley academic of the Movement for a Secular and Humanistic Judaism? Do Jews the world over convergre and emphasize their unity or do they share contrasting concepts of collective identity? Part I of this book presents a systematic discussion of Jewish identities in this era of (post)modernity. The opportunity is offered by a set of invaluable texts, which appear in Part II. These texts about Jewish identity were invited, in 1958, by Ben-Gurion from 50 intellectuals - rabbis, writers, scientists and lawyers -, from the Diaspora and Israel, representative of the principal streams of contemporary Jewish thought
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789047401452
ER  -