Comparing Jewish societies /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[1997]
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| Series: | Comparative studies in society and history book series.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : comparing Jewish societies / Todd M. Endelman
- Religious syncretism and religious distinctiveness : a comparative analysis of pre-modern Jewish communities / Stephen Sharot
- Jewish millennial-messianic movements : a comparison of medieval communities / Stephen Sharot
- Enlightenment and emancipation : German Jewry's formative age in comparative perspective / David Sorkin
- The modern Jewish diaspora : East European Jews in New York, London, and Paris / Nancy L. Green
- The importance of place : comparative aspects of the ritual murder trial in modern Central Europe / Hillel J. Kieval
- Andean two-step : the encounter between Bolivians and Central European Jewish refugees / Leo Spitzer
- Colonization and decolonization : the case of Zionist and African elites / Dan V. Segre
- Railway workers and relational history : Arabs and Jews in British-ruled Palestine / Zachary Lockman
- The viability of ethnic democracy as a mode of conflict management : comparing Israel and Northern Ireland / Sammy Smooha
- Religion and communal life in an evolutionary-functional perspective : the orthodox kibbutzim / Aryei Fishman
- The situational analysis of religious change revisited / Shlomo Deshen.