The New Jewish Canon - (Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah) by Yehuda Kurtzer & Claire E Sufrin (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p><i>The New Jewish Canon</i> is both text and textbook of the Jewish intellectual and communal zeitgeist for the contemporary period. With both primary sources and analytical essays by leading scholars, this book offers a conceptual roadmap to make sense of the mass production and proliferation of new Jewish ideas in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>"Extraordinarily rich, lively and illuminating. ... [The editors] have succeeded magnificently in achieving their goal." --</b><i><b>Jewish Journal</b></i><br></p><p>The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have been a period of mass production and proliferation of Jewish ideas, and have witnessed major changes in Jewish life and stimulated major debates. <em>The New Jewish Canon</em> offers a conceptual roadmap to make sense of such rapid change. With over eighty excerpts from key primary source texts and insightful corresponding essays by leading scholars, on topics of history and memory, Jewish politics and the public square, religion and religiosity, and identities and communities, <em>The New Jewish Canon</em> promises to start conversations from the seminar room to the dinner table. <em>The New Jewish Canon</em> is both text and textbook of the Jewish intellectual and communal zeitgeist for the contemporary period and the recent past, canonizing our most important ideas and debates of the past two generations; and just as importantly, stimulating debate and scholarship about what is yet to come.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"This is a rich col-lec-tion that pro-vides a win-dow into many of the key debates that have raged, and still rage, in the Jew-ish world. It rais-es many provoca-tive ques-tions about the nature of con-tem-po-rary Judaism and its future."</p> <p>--Martin Green, Jewish Book Council</p><br><br><p>"Extraordinarily rich, lively and illuminating. ... [The editors] have succeeded magnificently in achieving their goal."</p> <p>--Jonathan Kirsch, the <i>Jewish Journal</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Dr. Yehuda Kurtzer</strong> is the President of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, and a leading thinker and author on the meaning of Israel to American Jews, on Jewish history and Jewish memory, and on questions of leadership and change in American Jewish life. He is also the author of <em>Shuva: The Future of the Jewish Past </em>(Brandeis, 2012).</p><p><strong>Dr. Claire E. Sufrin</strong> is a scholar of religion specializing in modern Jewish thought and theology. She is Associate Professor of Instruction and Assistant Director of Jewish Studies in the Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies at Northwestern University.</p>
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