Judaism's Promise, Meeting the Challenge of Modernity - Itzkoff, Seymour W. (Peter Lang Publishing Inc., 2014)
Cover; Table of Contents; Introduction ix; Chapter 1: The Future of the Jews? 1; Chapter 2: Sources for the Religious 11; Chapter 3: Torah/Law 27; Chapter 4: Scriptures 45; Chapter 5: Talmudic Republic 63; Chapter 6: Haskalah: Crisis 83; Chapter 7: Our Judaic Heritage 101; Chapter 8: Holocaust: A Message for the Jews 117; Chapter 9: Israel, Judaism: Our Contemporary World Malaise 131; Chapter 10: Understanding Historical Judaism 147; Chapter 11: Judaism Reconstituted 169; Chapter 12: Values and the Future 187; Notes 201; Index 213
Judaism's Promise, Meeting The Challenge Of Modernity follows Seymour W. Itzkoff's well-received three-book series, Who Are the Jews? Judaism's Promise confronts the many revolutions that have reshaped Judaism over the centuries allowing it and its people a path of leadership into the modern world. It takes the writings of the Torah, Holy Scriptures, and Talmud seriously as exemplars of the human search for civilizational and moral intellectuality. The book's basic concern is with the withering of Judaism as a force in contemporary Western civilization. Sadly millions of Jews have left the fa