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Price: $199.50

Format:
Hardback 1052 pp.
171 mm x 246 mm

ISBN-10:
0198299966

ISBN-13:
9780198299967

Publication date:
November 2002

Imprint: OUP UK

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The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies

Edited by Martin Goodman
Jeremy Cohen and David Sorkin

Series : Oxford Handbooks in Religion and Theology

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.

There have been some attempts in recent years to encapsulate current conclusions about particular aspects of Jewish Studies, but these other works aim to provide compendia of agreed facts rather than a survey of interests and directions such as is found in the Oxford Handbook.

The Handbook begins with an examination of Jewish Studies as an academic discipline in its own right. The first half of the volume is organized chronologically, followed by sections on languages and literature, general aspects of religion, and other branches of Jewish Studies which have each accumulated a considerable corpus of scholarship over the past half-century.

This substantial volume of c. 400,000 words reflects the current state of scholarship as analysed by an international team of experts in the different and varied fields represented within contemporary Jewish Studies.

Readership : Students and teachers of Jewish Studies

Reviews

`This publication does, however, succeed in covering, with regard to Jewish history, law, language, literature, and thought, most of what would be expected by any fair concensus of opinion.'
The Journal of Theological Studies

1. Martin Goodman: The Nature of Jewish Studies
2.1a. Alan Cooper: Biblical Studies and Jewish Studies
2.2a. Martin Goodman: Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period
2.2b. John Collins: Jewish Literature in the Second Temple Period
2.3a. Seth Schwartz: Jews and Judaism in the Talmudic Period
2.3b. Catherine Heszer: Classical Rabbinic Literature
3.1. Ram Ben-Shalom: Medieval Jewry in Christendom
3.2. Mark Cohen: Medieval Jewry in the World of Islam
3.3. Israel Ta-Shma: Rabbinic Scholarship in the Middle Ages
3.4. Joseph Dan: Medieval Judaism
3.5. Eli Yassif and Tova Rosen: Medieval Jewish Literature
3.6. Meira Polliack: Medieval Karaism
4.1. Sarah Stein: Oriental and Sephardic Jewry since 1492
4.2. Elisheva Carlebach: European Jewry in the Early Modern Period, 1492 to 1750
4.3. David Rechter: Western and Central European Jewry in the Modern Period, 1750-1933
4.4. Michael Stanislawski: Eastern European Jewry in the Modern Period, 1750-1939
4.5. Saul Friedlander: The Holocaust and its Aftermath
4.6. Ilan Troen: Settlement and State in the Land of Israel
4.7. Hasia Diner: Jews and Judaism in America
5.1a. Pablo-Isaac Kirtchuk: Hebrew Language
5.1b. Glenda Abramson: Modern Hebrew Literature
5.2. Cecilia Kuznitz: Yiddish Studies
5.3. Ora Schwarzwald: Ladino Studies
5.4. Geoffrey Khan: Judaeo-Arabic and judaeo-Persian Studies
5.5. Ilan Stavans: Other Diaspora Jewish Literatures since 1492
6.1. Bernard Jackson, with B. Lifshitz, A. Gray, and D.B. Sinclair: Halakha and Law
6.2. Michael Fishbane: Bible Interpretation
6.3. Elliot Wolfson: Mysticism and Magic
6.4. Lawrence Hoffman: Liturgy
6.5. Paul Mendes-Flohr: Jewish Philosophy and Theology
7. Tal Ilan: Jewish Women's Studies
8. Sergio Della Pergola: Demography
9. Lee Levine: Art, Architecture, and Archaeology
10. Phil Bohlman: Music
11. Gad Kaynar and Ahuvia Belkin: Theatre
12. Moshe Zimerman: Film
13. Wolfgang Benz: Antisemitism
14. Galit Hasan-Rokem: Folklore and Ethnography
15. Harvey Goldberg: Modern Jewish Society and Sociology

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Martin Goodman is Professor of Jewish Studies, University of Oxford Jeremy Cohen is Professor of Jewish Studies, Tel Aviv University David Sorkin is Professor of Jewish History, University of Wisconsin

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Special Features

State-of-the-art survey of contemporary Jewish Studies
Coverage of all the main areas currently taught and researched as part of Jewish Studies in Europe, the United States, and Israel
Enormous chronological and geographical scope
Helps to define the discipline
Invaluable for both academics and students
39 brand-new contributions by an outstanding international team
The most comprehensive and authoritative guide available
Part of the prestigious Oxford Handbooks series
A primary reference and starting point for further research in Jewish Studies