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Exclusion and Hierarchy: Orthodoxy, Nonobservance, and the Emergence of Modern Jewish Identity »

Authors: Adam S. Ferziger
ISBN-13: 9780812238655, ISBN-10: 0812238656
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Date Published: May 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Adam S. Ferziger

Adam S. Ferziger is Gwendolyn and Joseph Straus Fellow in Jewish Studies and lecturer in the Graduate Program in Contemporary Jewry at Bar-Ilan University.

Book Synopsis

This book traces the evolution of Orthodox Judaism's approach to its nonpracticing brethren, shedding new light on the emergence of Orthodoxy as a specific movement within modern Jewish society.

	Introduction : the emergence of parallel phenomena : orthodox Judaism and the modern nonobservant Jew	1
1	A "community of the faithful" : Hakham Zevi Hirsch Ashkenazi (1660-1718) and the religious pluralism of the Spanish-Portuguese diaspora	27
2	The forerunners of orthodoxy	41
3	The age of the Hatam Sofer : early nineteenth-century orthodoxy and the emergence of internal boundaries	61
4	The formulation of hierarchical Judaism : Rabbi Jacob Ettlinger and the nature of modern Jewish identity	90
5	The Hirschian hierarchy : communal separation and the nonobservant Jew	117
6	Bambergerian unity and the hierarchical principle	133
7	The conscious hierarchy of Berlin separatist orthodoxy	151
	Conclusion : the hierarchical model and orthodox centers outside of Germany	186
App	Premodern rabbinic sources regarding nonobservance	193