The Oxford handbook of Jewish studies

• Other Authors: Goodman, Martin 1953-, Cohen, Jeremy 1953-, Sorkin, David Jan
• Format: Unknown
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford New York Oxford University Press 2002
• Subjects: Judaism > Study and teaching; Jews > Civilization > Study and teaching
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• Physical Description: xiv, 1037 pages 26 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 9780198299967; 9780199280322

The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies is part of a major new series of Oxford Handbooks. The volume on Jewish Studies reflects the aim of the series to produce distinctive and original surveys of today's interests and directions in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Handbook covers all the main areas currently taught and researched as part of Jewish Studies in universities throughout the world, especially in Europe, the United States, and Israel. The span of the volume chronologically and geographically is thus enormous, but all contributors have in common their expertise in the study of the history, literature, religion, and culture of the Jews. Jewish Studies is a comparatively young discipline which has grown over the past fifty years in a somewhat undisciplined way. In a period of great upheaval for Jews following the Holocaust, the creation of the State of Israel, the emergence of new forms of dialogue between Jews and Christians, deepening divisions between secular and religious Jews, and unprecedented assimilation by diaspora Jews to the wider culture, the study of Jewish traditions and history has rarely been dispassionate. This is a good time to examine where we are and where the subject is going.