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Authors: Menachem Mor, Philip M and Ethel Klutznick Chair In Je
ISBN-13: 9781881871040, ISBN-10: 1881871045
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Date Published: January 1993
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Menachem Mor

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Table of Contents

Preface
Editor's Introduction
List of Contributors
Josephus' Antiquities 11.297-347: Unraveling the Evidence Regarding the Founding of the Gerizim Temple and the Background of the Samaritan Religious Community1
Josephus' Attitude Toward the Samaritans: A Study in Ambivalence23
Samaritanism - Judaism Or Another Religion?47
Jewish-Christian Sects and the Jewish-Christian Debate53
Who Were the Jewish Sectarians Under Early Islam?101
The Sabbatean Movement in Smyrna: The Social Background113
Haskalah and the Roots of Jewish Radicalism in Nineteenth Century Russia123
The Jewish Youth Movements as an Historical Phenomenon149
The Sect of Catastrophe: Mahane Israel-Lubavitch 1940-1945165
Intersecting Spheres: Feminism and Orthodox Judaism185
Interpreting Adult Bat Mitzvah: The Limits and Potential of Feminism in a Congregational Setting205
Halakhah and Holocaust Theology: Perspectives on Power221
To Be a Part of, Not Apart from America: American Reform Judaism and Social Justice243
The Status of the Non Sabbath Observer: The Rabbinic Response to Non-Conformity271
Images of the Movements: Perceptions of American Jewish University Students287
Factions Within a Faction: Israel's Communist Movement301
Roots of the Ideological-Political Controversy Between the Right and the Left in Israel365
Integration and Segregation: The Development of Diverse Trends in Israeli Religious Political Parties373
Religious-Secular Accommodation in Israeli Politics393
Panel Discussion: American Jewry - One Or Many Judaisms?415

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