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Response to Modernity History of the Reform Movement in Judaism

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ISBN-10: 0814325556

ISBN-13: 9780814325551

Edition: 1995 (Reprint)

Authors: Michael A. Meyer

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The movement for religious reform in modern Judaism represents one of the most significant phenomena in Jewish history during the last two hundred years. It introduced new theological conceptions and innovations in liturgy and religious practice that affected millions of Jews, first in central and Western Europe and later in the United States.Today Reform Judaism is one of the three major branches of Jewish faith. Bringing to life the ideas, issues, and personalities that have helped to shape modern Jewry, Response to Modernity offers a comprehensive and balanced history of the Reform Movement, tracing its changing configuration and self-understanding from the beginnings of modernization in…    
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List price: $32.99
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication date: 4/30/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 508
Size: 7.44" wide x 9.69" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English

Michael A. Meyer is Adolph S. Ochs Professor of Jewish History at the Hebrew Union College--Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, Ohio, and international president of the Leo Baeck Institute, devoted to the history and culture of German-speaking Jewry. He is author of Response to Modernity: A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism and co-editor (with Michael Brenner) of the four-volume German-Jewish History in Modern Times. He lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Preface: Considerations of Historiography
Adapting Judaism to the Modern World
Ideological Ferment
Growth and Conflict on German Soil
European Diffusion
Consolidation and Further Advance
America: The Reform Movement's Land of Promise""Classical"" Reform Judaism
Reorientation
An International Movement
The New American Reform Judaism
Epilogue: In Quest of Identity
Appendix: The Platforms of American Reform Judaism
Notes
Bibliographic Essay
Index