Reform Judaism and Architecture

This book charts the shifting boundaries of Judaism from antiquity to the modern period in order to bring clarity to what scholars mean when they claim that ancient texts or groups...

Abstract It seems so obvious today to identify Judaism as a “religion” that it comes as a surprise to learn that it is only since the Second World War that Judaism h...

In the years 1910–1915 Cohen wrote on several topics related to Judaism and philosophy. One concerns the relationship between Kant’s philosophy and Judaism. Cohen argues that there...

This chapter reviews the book Judaism in Transition: How Economic Choices Shape Religious Tradition (2014), by Carmel U. Chiswick. In Judaism in Transition, Chiswick examines the e...

Chapter 6 seeks to re-frame or redescribe this so-called golden age by arguing that Islam provided the intellectual and religious context for the florescence of Judaism at a format...

Judaism and Jewish life reflect a diversity of identity after the past two centuries of modernization. This work examines how the early reformers of the 19th century and their lega...

This chapter explores the relationship between Jesus and Judaism as described in gospel texts of the late first and second centuries. It addresses two questions: (1) To what extent...

Abstract Defending Judaism: Jewish Writing and Religious Toleration in Early Modern Europe explores the decisive contributions of Jewish writers to the expansion of ...