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JudaisnI REL 224 - 001 I Spring 2017 I 3 Credit Hours

Lecture Dr. Steven Jacobs

Contact Information

UA Campus Directory: • Dr. Steven Jacobs (https://www.ua.edu/directory/?i=sjacobs#listing)

201 Manly Hall, 348-0473, sjacobs@bama.ua.edu

Prerequisites

UA Course Catalog Prerequisites: No prereqs found

Course Description

Course Description and Credit Hours A study of some of the leading schools and interpreters of Judaism and a review of modem developments including the Holocaust and the state of Israel.

Required Texts

Required Texts from UA Supply Store: • JACOBS / JEWISH EXPERIENCE (Required) • ROSENFELD/ WHAT IFS OF JEWISH HISTORY (Required) • KIRSCH, ADAM / THE PEOPLE AND THE BOOKS:18 CLASSICS OF JEWISH LITERATURE

(Required)

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Course Objectives

1. To introduce students to the multi-dimensional world of the Jews and Judaism through a look at their historical and contemporary experiences, their thought worlds of texts, philosophy, and theology, and their practices of holiday and life-cycle celebrations.

To contemporary the Judaic experience by examining those influences which mark the present moment in Jewish history: the influence of both the Holocaust/Shoah and the ongoing Arab/Palestinian-Israeli/Middle East Conflict.

Student Learning Outcomes

• Students ...

1. Students will be able to successfully--with a passing grade of 70 or better--the "Jewish Literacy Survey" given at the beginning and end of the course--in addition to a take-home essay-style Final Examination concretely demonstrating knowledge in the areas of Judaism covered in this course.

2. Students will demonstrate their writing proficiency through two (2) assignments of 5-7 pages and 7-10 pages, the result of (a) a Creative Paper on 11What If .... 11

, a Research Paper, and/or a Creative Project.

Other Course Materials

Possible additional handouts provided by the instructor. See also Blackboard Course Page for additional readings, etc.

Outline of Topics

1. The Nature of Jewish/Judaic Studies. 2. Unpacking a Definition. 3. Cycles of History. 4. Cycles of Texts: Building the Foundation. 5. Cycles of Thought: Judaic Philosophy. 6. Cycles of Belief: Judaic Theology. 7. Cycles of Time: The Jewish Calendar. 8. Cycles of Life: The Life­Cycle Journey. 9. Cycles of the Here and Now: The 21st Century Moment and Beyond. 10. The Future of Judaism and the Jewish People.

Exams and Assignments

Grading Policy

1. The Grading Scale is as follows: A+ = 99 ... ; A= 94-98; A- = 90-93; B+ = 88-89; B = 84-87; B- = 80-83; C+ = 78-79; C - 74-77; C- = 70-73; D+ = 68-69; D = 64-67; D- = 60-63; F+ = 58-59; F = 54-57; F- = 50-53.

2. "What If ... " Paper = 25%; "Research Paper or Creative Project" = 50%; Final Exam = 25%.

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Policy on Missed Exams and Coursework

All missed responsibilities will be worked out on an individual basis with the instructor.

Attendance Policy

Attendance is required unless otherwise noted.

Statement on Academic Misconduct

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provided in the Online Catalog.

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CALENDAR OF MEETINGS

{Subject to change)

SPRING2017

REL 224.001 "Judaism"

11:00-12:15, 306 Lloyd Hall

OFFICE HOURS (201 MANLYHALL):

TU & TH 9:30-10:30 (By Appt.) & 12:30-1:30 (Open Door)

REL 372.001 "Religions, Politics, & Cultures of the

Middle East", 210 Manly Hall

JANUARY 12 Thursday Introductions, Syllabus, Policies, etc.

17 Tuesday

19 Thursday

24 Tuesday

26 Thursday NO CLASS; OUT OF TOWN ©

31 Tuesday

FEBRUARY

2 Thursday

7 Tuesday

9 Thursday

14 Tuesday

16 Thursday

i Undergraduate Research M?tnuscript Rubric

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Undergraduate research is becoming more important in higher education as evidence is ac;cumu lat ing that clear , inquiry-based learning, scholarship, and creative accomplishments can and do foster effective, high levels of student learning. This curric~ ar innovation includes identifying a concrete investigative problem , carrying out the project, and sharing findings with peers. The following standards describe effecti v~ research manuscripts .

Standards

Abstract

Introduction

Problem

Procedure

Data and results

Conclusion

Mechanics and docwnentation

5-4 Exemplary

Clearly states problem and question to be resolved; clearly summarizes method , results _, and conclusions Provides background research into the topi c and summarizes important findings from the review of the

literature;describes problem to be solved; justifies the study; explains the significance of the problem to an audience of non-specialists Addresses the problem with clarity

Presents easy-to-follow steps that are logical and adequately detailed; sampling is appropriate to the problem Explains data and results in a com_p_letefashion Presents a logical explanation for findings; addresses recommenda­tions for further research or use/application Is free or almost free of errors of grammar, spelling, and writing mechanics; documents sources

3-2 Satis fac~orv

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Summarizes probl~m , method, results, and ooncl ~ ion.s but lacks some details l Provides backgrOUJ?d research into the topic and qescr ibes the problem to be solv¥

Addresses the problem but may sometimes digress • Presents most of the steps but lacks some details

Ex.plainsdata and results with some features lacking detail Presents a logical explanation for findings

Has errors but they :don't represent a major d).straction; documents sources '

1-0 Unacceptable

Is vague about the problem; does not provide a summary of the whole project Provides background research into the topic but does not describe the problem to be solved ; fails to explain details to non-specialists

Does not address the problem

Has steps but some are missing or not sequential

Lacks description of data and results Does not adequately explain findings

Has many errors that obscure meaning or add confusion ; neglects important sources or uses too few

Score I Weight I Total Score

X2

XI

XI

XI

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"What lfs ... and Possibilities ... " Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, ed. What Ifs of Jewish History: From Abraham to Zionism. Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press, 2016.

1. \tvhat if the Exodus had never happened?

a. What is Moses never was? b. What if the Israelites never suffered a famine and never left their homeland? c. What if the Babylonians never conquered ancient Israel? d. What if the Babylonian Captivity never took place? e. What it after Alexander conquered lsrael1 the conflict between Judaism and

Hellenism was a myth?

2. ltVhatif the Te1i1pit:uf jerusaiern had not been destroyed Uythe nur.-,ans? a. What if the Dispersion after the fact had been voluntary? b. What if the Jewish rebellion against the Roman invaders had been successful? c. What if the Jewish communities in the various European nation-states (Great

Britain1 France Germany1 Italy) were successfully integrated into their larger 1

populations?

3. \tVhatif King Ferdinand [14SL-1516] and Queen ;sabella [1451-1504] had nut i:Apelled the Jews of Spain in 1492?

a. What if the "Golden Age of Spanish Jewry 11 (1100-1400} under Muslim hegemony continued?

b. What if the Inquisition proved a failure? c. What if Columbus1 voyage to the New World included a large population of

Jews who desired to settle there?

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a. What if the Jewish communities in the various European nation-states (Great Britain1 France Germany1 Italy) were successfully integrated into their larger 1

populations? b. What if Reform Judaism ("'1810} became the dominant Jewish religious

expression throughout Europe?

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a. What if his religious-theological ideas were successfully integrated into mainstream Jewish thinking?

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6. What if Russian Jewry had never been confined to the Pale of Jewish Settlement?

a. What if Hasidic Judaism, begun in the 1 'Jfh century, became the dominant Jewish religious expression in Russia?

b. What if the Hasko/ah (Enlightenment), begun in the 18th century, became the dominant secular Jewish expression in Russia, overtaking religious forms?

7. What if a Christian state had been established in modern Palestine?

a. What if, thus, there existed a "Golden Age" whereby Christians, Jews, and Muslims successfully interacted on an intellectual, religious, theological level?

8. What if the Jewish state had been established in East Asia?

a. What if the Jewish state had been established in Grand Island, NY? b. What if the Jewish state had been established in Suriname? c. What if the Jewish state had been established in Angola? d. What if the Jewish state had been established in Kenya? e. What if the Jewish state had been established in Madagascar?

/. What if the Jewish state had been established in Tasmania (AUS}?

9. What if Franz Kafka [1883-1924] had immigrated to Palestine?

a. What if Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise {1819-1900} had immigrated to Palestine?

b. What if Franz Rosenzweig [1886-1929) had immigrated to Palestine? c. What if Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver {1883-1963} had immigrated to

Palestine/Israel? d. What if Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise {1874-1949) had immigrated to

Palestine/Israel? e. What if Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel [1907-1972} had immigrated to

Palestine/Israel? f. What// ________ had immigrated to Palestine/Israel?

10. What if the Palestinian elite had chosen compromise instead of boycott in confronting Zionism?

a. What if the Arabs and Jews and both accepted the UNSCOP Report of 1947 calling for two states, one Arab and one Jewish?

11. What if Musa Aiami [1897-1984] and David Ben-Gurion [1886-1973] had agreed on a Jewish-Arab state?

a. What if Israel had lost its War of Independence in 1948? b. What if Israel had lost is Suez Conflict in 1956? c. What if Israel had lost is Six Day War in 1967? d. What if Israel had lost is Yom Kippur War in 1973? e. What if Israel had lost the Lebanese Incursion in 1981?

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f. What if Israel had lost Operation Cast Lead/Gaza War in 2008/2009?

12. What if the Weimar Republic had survived? A chapter from Walther Rathenau's (1867­

1922) memoir.

a. What if Germany had successfully won World War I? b. What if the Nazi rebellion had proved a complete failure? c. What if the Communist rebellion had proved a complete success?

13. What if Adolf Hitler had been assassinated in 1939?

a. What if, after his death, the Nazi leadership named someone else as Fuhrer?1

b. What if Franklin Delano Roosevelt {1882-1945} survived World War II?

14. What if the Nazis had won the battle of El Alamein?

a. What if Germany (and Japan) had won the Second World War? b. What if atomic bombs had not been dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

15. What if the Final Solution had been completed? Nazi memory in a victorious Reich

a. What if the United States, Great Britain, and France had successfully addressed the plight of the Jews under Nazi control?

b. What if the State of Israel had already existed and launched a strike against Nazi Germany to save the Jews of Europe?

16. What if the Holocaust had been averted? a. What if Europe's Jews had been successfully allowed to immigrate at the start

of World War II to the United States, Australia, etc.?

1 Defendants In the Major War Figures Trial: Karl Doenitz (1881-1980), Hans Frank (1900-1946), Wilhelm Frick (1877-1946), Hans Fritsche (1900-1953), Walther Funk (1900-1945), Hermann Goering (1893-1946), Rudolf Hess (1894-1987), Alfred Jodi (1890-1946), Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903-1946), Wilhelm Keitel (1887-1946), Konstantin von Neurath (1873-1956), Franz von Papen (1879-1969), Erich Raeder (1876-1960), Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893­1946), Alfred Rosenberg (1893-1946), Fritz Saukel (1894-1946), Hjalmar Schacht (1877-1970), Baldur von Schirach(1907-1974), Arthur Seyss-lnquart (1892-1946), Albert Speer (19051981). Julius Streicher (1885-1946). Source: http ://law2 .umkc.edu .

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Adam Kirsch. The People and the Books: 18 Classics of Jewish Literature. New York and

London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.

No. Author Text Pages

1 Moses (1393-1273 BCE)

Book of Deuteronomy 1-24

2 ? Book of Esther (4th Century)

25-44

3 Philo of Alexandria (25 BCE-SO CE)

Exposition of the laws 45-74

4 Flavius Josephus (37-100)

Jewish War 75-102

5 Various Rabbis PirkeAvot (3rd Century)

103-128

6 Benjamin of Tudela (1130-1173)

Itinerary 129-160

7 Yehuda Halevi (1075-1141)

Kuzari II

8 Moses Maimonides (1135-1204)

Guide of the Perplexed 161-192

9 Shimon bar Yochai (2nd Century)

Moses de Leon (1240-1305)

Zahar 193-220

10 Jacob ben Isaac Ashkenazi

(1560-1625)

Tsenerene 221-246

11 Gluckel of Hameln (1646-1724)

Memoirs "

12 Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677)

Theological-Political Treatise

247-272

13 Solomon Maimon (1753-1800)

Autobiography 273-298

14 Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786)

Jerusalem "

15 Nachman of Bratslav (1772-1810)

Tales 299-326

16 Theodor Herzl (1860-1904)

The Jewish State 327-352

17 " Old Newland "

18 Sholem Aleichem (Solomon Rabinovich)

(1859-1916)

Tevye the Dairyman 353-368

KEY WORDS IN JEWISH STUDIES

New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press

Baker, Cynthia M. Jew. (2017)

Boyarin, Jonathan. Jewish Families. {2013)

*Bush, Andrew. Jewish Studies: A Theoretical Introduction. {2011) [Reviewed by SU]

Lipstadt, Deborah E. Holocaust: An American Understanding. (2016)

Litvak, Olga. Hasko/ah: The Romantic Movement in Judaism. (2012)

Mann, Barbara E. Space and Place in Jewish Studies. (2012)

Pianko, Noam. Jewish Peoplehood: An American Innovation. (2015)

Shandler, Jeffrey. Shtetl: A Vernacular Intellectual History. {2014)

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Jewish Studies: A Theoretical Introduction, by Andrew Bush. New Bruns­wick and London: Rutgers University Press, 2011. 150 pp. $39.95.

Andrew Bush's slender volume Jewish Studies: A Theoretical Introduction is evi­dence of the commitment to serious scholarship in a relatively new academic field, first arising in Germany in the nineteenth century after Jews were "re­leased" from their ghettoes and permitted to enter universities after the na­tion-state of France ~rst led the way in 1789, and still trying to fully articulate not only its object(s) of study but its validity in Western secular universities, the acknowledged home for much of contemporary scholarship today. This text, the first in a new series "Key Words in Jewish Studies" to be published by Rutgers University Press (Series Editors Deborah Dash Moore and Macdon­ald Moore, both at the University of Michigan; and Bush himself at Vassar College, New York), is the template for all subsequent volumes (none of which are even suggested as future tides anywhere in the book), as the editors write in the Foreword:

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The volumes in the series share a common organization. They open with a first section, Terms of Debate, which defines the key word (i.e. in this case "Jewish Studies") as it developed over the course of Jewish history .... The second sec­tion, State of the Question, analyzes contemporary debates in scholarship and popular venues, especially for those key words that have crossed over into popu­lar culture. The final section, In a New Key, explicitly addresses contemporary culture and future possibilities for understanding the key word. (p. x)

In this particular instance, Bush's "Introduction: To What May This Be Likened?" (pp. 1-10) should have been combined with Chapter One,"Terms of Debate" (pp.11-49), for both trace the history of Jewish/Judaic studies and its departure from yeshivot and rabbinical seminaries to the aforementioned Western universities and with it the lessening of such authorities to dictate either the persons who may study this material or the methodologies by which such material is investigated. I£ in fact, Judaic/Jewish studies-the choice of terms is itself suggestive: "Judaic" is seemingly the more academic and objective; "Jewish" the more parochial and subjective-is a legitimate activity of study, then Bush is on target when he notes early on: "The fundamental question for studying Jews is not how to maintain a relationship to the Jewish God, to the Jewish Book, or to the Jewish people, but what kind of object does one study when studyingJews" (p. 1). The response to that singular question, no easy an­swer to be sure, largely determines Judaic/Jewish studies curricula today.

Yet tensions continue to present themselves when studying Jews (and, therefore, Judaism) to the degree to which organized and aggressively active Jewish communities and organizations view universities as both places for "saving the souls" of Jewish young people and battlegrounds for Israel advo­cacy as a counter and challenge to the antisemitism and anti-Zionism preva­lent in too many American, British, and other Western universities. Yet, Bush reminds us, "It is not the purpose of Jewish Studies in the nonsectarian uni­versity to make students Jewish or more Jewish, whatever those expressions might mean" (p. 4).

As regards the unknowable future of Judaic/Jewish studies, "the Jewish Studies to come will depend on political developments and material condi­tions as yet unrealized and so radically unpredictable" (p. 5). In the current moment, at least in the United States, where the economy continues to take a substantial hit and Jewish populations are either shrinking or growing slightly, both significantly disproportionately smaller to the larger society and other sub-populations (e.g. Hispanics and Blacks), future justifications for study­ingJews (and Judaism) may become relegated to both historians and religious studies scholars investigating a past rather than a present and future viable group or groups. (Interestingly enough, political science and international

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relations scholars may prove the shape of things to come as Israel and the Middle East show no signs whatsoever of decreasing their presence on the world's stage.)

In Chapter One, "Terms of Debate;' Bush rightly and positively assesses the contribution of feminist scholarship on Judaic/Jewish studies, serving to "round out" our understanding of various historical moments and textual ma­terials. Regarding the former, one thinks of Shoah/Holocaust scholarship; regarding the latter one thinks of the work of Judith Plaskow ( and others) in reframing Jewish theological thinking by re-reading Hebrew Bible and Tal­mudic texts. Bush also suggests (pp. 4 lff) that, although in the past Judaic/ Jewish studies has been largely Western (European and American) and Ash­kenazic (Central and Eastern European), today we are seeing the beginnings of significant Sephardic (Mediterranean) scholarship coming into its own.

In Chapter Two, "State of the Question;' Bush correctly notes that we may divide Judaic/Jewish studies into pre- and post-Shoah/Holocaust time­frames historically ( that is, pre-1945 and post-1945), even going so far as to suggest naming "the current period in Jewish Studies 'after Auschwitz"' (p. 55). As an historical event, though, as the Shoah/Holocaust recedes in his­torical consciousness ( we are already witnessing the demise of those for whom it was a lived experience), such a dividing line may cease to be intellectually meaningful. Interestingly enough the rebirth of the Third Jewish Common­wealth, M'dinat Yisrael/ State of Israel ( 1948) has, of yet, provided no marker, as Israel Studies is itself experiencing its own birthpangs. Wave of the future, perhaps, and affecting present and future scholarship, and noted as well, are the increasingly porous boundaries affecting understandings of identity as, for example, non-Jews are welcomed into and embraced by various Jewish com­munities including Israel, and issues of sexual/ gender orientations further re­define individuals, families and communities.

Chapter Three, "In a New Key;' is somewhat problematic for this reviewer as it appears to be abstracts from various courses taught by Professor Bush which are designed to, perhaps, chart and expand directions for studying Jews in both the present and future by enumerating a "cast of characters" (pp. 93-95) and representative readings of selected passages of their writings in keeping with his definition of"Jewish Studies as studying Jews ... at any and perhaps every point in time" (p. 109). What would have been most helpful here would have been either an Appendix with sample syllabi from Professor Bush, or an internet link to those same syllabi, further fleshing out how these materials have been used by him.

Overall, Professor Bush and his colleagues are to be commended for inau­gurating a series which promises much in enlarging this important conversa­

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tion regarding the present and future of Judaic/Jewish studies. This first vol, ume,Jewish Studies: A Theoretical Introduction, serves its cause well and should be required reading for present faculty in the field as well as graduate students who will one day assume their own places in our universities.

Steven Leonard Jacobs Aaron Aronov Endowed Chair of

Judaic Studies University of Alabama

Paul Mendes-Flohr and Jehuda Reinharz, eds. The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History.Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Third Edition.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. Harbingers of Political and Economic Change

II. Harbingers of Cultural and Ideological Change

Ill. The Process of Political Emancipation in Western Europe, 1789-1871

IV. Emerging Patterns of Religious Adjustment: Reform, Conservative, Nee-Orthodox,

and Ultra-Orthodox Judaism

V. Modern Jewish Studies

VI. Political and Racial Antisemitism

VII. East European Jewry

VIII. Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewry

IX. American Jewry

X. Zionism

XI. The Shoah

The "What ifs ... " of History:

A Judaic Bibliography © 2017, Steven Leonard Jacobs

Chabon, Michael. The Yiddish Policemen's Union. New York: Harper Collins, 2007.

Dick, Philip K. The Man in the High Castle. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1962.

Gurock, Jeffrey S. The Holocaust Averted: An Alternate History of American Jewry, 1938-1967. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, 2015.

Lewis, Sinclair. It Can't Happen Here. New York: Penguin Books, 1963.

Rosenfeld, Gavriel D. The World Hitler Never Made. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Rosenfeld., Gavriel D. Hi Hitler! How the Nazi Past is Being Normalized in Contemporary Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Rosenfeld, Gavriel D. What Ifs of Jewish History: From Abraham to Zionism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Roth, Philip. The Plot Against America. New York: Random House, 2004.

Rovner, Adam. In the Shadow of Zion : Promised Lands Before Israel. New York and London: New York University Press, 2015.

Showalter, Dennis E., & Harold C. Deutsch, eds. If the Allies Had Fallen: Sixty Alternative Scenarios of World War II. South Yorkshire: Frontline Books, 1997.

Tsouras, Peter G., ed. Hitler Triumphant! Alternative Histories of World War II. South Yorkshire: Frontline Books, 2011.

Tsouras, Peter G., ed. Third Reich Victorious: Alternative Decisions of World War IL London: Greenhill Books, 2002.

Warren, Robert Penn. All the King's Men. Orlando: Harcourt, 1974.

Zelitch, Simone. Judenstaat. New York: Tim Doherty Associates, 2016.

UPDATED SURVEY OF JUDAISM BIBLIOGRAPHY

© 2016 Dr. Steven Leonard Jacobs

Abramsky, Sasha. The House of Twenty Thousand Books. New York: New York Review of Books, 2015.

Ashton, Dianne. Hanukkah in America: A History. New York: New York University Press, 2013.

Baskin, Judith, and Kenneth Seeskin, eds. The Cambridge Guide to Jewish History, Religion and Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Berger, Joseph. The Pious Ones: The World of Hasidim and Their Battles with America. New York: Harper Perennial, 2014.

Biale, David. Not in the Heavens: The Tradition of Jewish Secular Thought. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010.

Brod, Max. Reubeni, Prince of the Jews. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929.

Brody, Shlomo M. A Guide to the Complex: Contemporary Halakhic Debates. Jerusalem: Maggid Books, 2014.

De' Rossi, Azariah. The Light of the Eyes. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. Translated by Joanna Weinberg.

Diamond, James A. Maimonides and the Shaping of the Jewish Canon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Duneier, Mitchell. Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2015.

Eaton, Susan E. Integration Nation: Immigrants, Refugees, and America at Its Best. New York: The New Press, 2016.

Faierstein, Morris M., ed. & trans. Yudisher Theriak: An Early Modern Yiddish Defense of Judaism. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2016.

Fraenkel, A vinoam. Nefesh HaTzimtzum: Rabbi Chaim Volozhin 's Nefesh HaChaim with Translation and Commentary. Volume 1. Brooklyn and Jerusalem: Urim Publications, 2015.

Glenn, Susan, and Naomi Sokoloff, eds. Boundaries of Jewish Identity. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010.

Goldberg, Hillel. Between Berlin and Slobodka: Transitional Figures from Eastern Europe. Hoboken: Ktav Publishing House, 2010.

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Greenspoon, Leonard, ed. Rites of Passage: How Today's Jews Celebrate, Commemorate, and Commiserate. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2010.

Horowitz, Roger. Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016.

Hughes, Aaron W. Jacob Neusner: An American Iconoclast. New York: New York University Press, 2016.

Kamenetz, Roger. Burnt Books: Rabbi Nachman ofBratslav and Franz Kafka. New York: Schocken, 2010.

Klein, Y ossi. Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist: The Story of A Transformation. New York: Harper Perennial, 2014.

Lederhandler, Eli. Ethnicity and Beyond: Theories and Dilemmas of Jewish Group Demarcation. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Lederhandler, Eli, and Uzi Rebhun, eds. Research in Jewish Demography and Identity. Brighton: Academic Studies Press, 2015.

McDannell, Colleen, ed. Religions of the United States in Practice. Volume 1. Princeton and London: Princeton University Press, 2001.

Mndes-Flohr, Paul, and Jehuda Reinharz, eds. The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Miles, Jack, et. al., eds. The Norton Anthology of World Religions. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2014. Volume 1: Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism. Volum e 2: Judaism, Christianity, Islam.

Morgan, Michael L., and Steven Weitzman, eds. Rethinking the Messianic Idea in Judaism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014.

Rebhun, Uzi. Jews and the American Religious Landscape. New York: Columbia University Press, 1916.

Rebhun, Uzi. The Social Scientific Study of Judaism: Sources, Approaches , Debates. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Rebhun, Uzi. The Wandering Jew in America. Brighton: Academic Studies Press, 2011.

Robinson, Ira, Naftali S. Cohn, and Lorenzo DiTommaso, ed. History, Memory, and Jewish Identity. Brighton: Academic Studies Press, 2016.

Ross, Theodore. Am I a Jew? New York: Penguin Books, 2013.

Roudinesco, Elizabeth. Revisiting the Jewish Question. Malden and London: Polity, 2014.

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Sharot, Stephen. Comparative Perspectives on Judaisms and Jewish Identities. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2010.

Siegel, Sharon R. A Jewish Ceremony for Newborn Girls: The Torah's Covenant Affirmed. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2014.

Shapiro, Marc B. Changing the Immutable: How Orthodox Judaism Rewrites Its History. London: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2015.

Solomon, Norman. Torah from Heaven: The Reconstruction of Faith. London: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2012.

Spolsky, Bernard. The Language of the Jews: A Sociolinguistic History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Taylor, Dov. Joseph's Perl's Revealer of Secrets: The First Hebrew Novel. Boulder: Westview Press, 1996.

Zemel, Carol. Looking Jewish: Visual Culture and Modern Diaspora. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016.

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