We Jews Who Are We and What Should We Do

Name: We Jews Who Are We and What Should We Do
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ISBN: 9780787979157

ISBN-10: 0787979155

ISBN-13: 9780787979157

Edition: 2005

Authors: Adin Steinsaltz, Yehuda Hanegbi, Rebecca Toueg

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Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz provides wise and uplifting answers to the most important questions facing Jews everywhere, whether they are secular and assimilated or orthodox - Are we a nation or a religion? Are the stereotypes of Jews really true? How can we navigate the opposing forces of diversity, culture and politics?

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/30/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 5.67" wide x 8.56" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 0.748

Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz is the editor and translator of Random House's twenty-two-volume edition of the Talmud. He is also the author of many volumes on Jewish thought and practice and has been a resident scholar at both Yale University and the Institute for Advanced Study. In 1988 he was invited to open a Judaic studies center in Moscow, the first such institution in the former Soviet Union in sixty years. Rabbi Steinsaltz lives in Israel.



Foreword



Author's Introduction



Are We Actors with Masks?Our Ability to Assimilate Has Been Too Effective for Our Own Good



Are We Shattered into Pieces?Despite What Anti-Semites Have Said, Our Infighting and Historical Circumstances Have Never Allowed Unity nor a Unified Leadership



Are We a Nation or a Religion?Our People Are Not a Religion, nor a Nation, nor an Ethnic Group, nor a Race



Do We Have Our Own Set of Character Traits?Yes, But Sometimes We Use Them and Sometimes We Abuse Them



Is Money Our God?The Slander, Lies, and Misunderstandings Regarding Jews and Money



Why Do We Want to Save the World?Exploring the Jewish Messiah Complex



Are We Excessively Warm or Excessively Cold?The Seemingly Contradictory Phenomena of Jewish Emotionalism and Intellectualism



Why Are Our People Involved in Idolatry?Our Theocentric Nature and Our Temptation to Create and Worship Idols



What Is Our Role in the World?Our "Chosen" Status Demands That We Be the Priests to the World



How Does Our Jewishness Influence Our Thinking Process?Marx, Freud, Einstein, and the Jewish Search for Unifying Principles



How Does Anti-Semitism Affect Other People?The Correlation Between a Country's Health and How Well It Treats Its Jews



What Will Become of the Jewish People?


The Author


The Editor


Index