The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies

doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199280322.001.0001

The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies

Edited by Martin Goodman

Abstract

The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies covers all the main areas currently taught and researched as part of Jewish studies in universities throughout the world, especially in Europe, the United States, and Israel. The span of the volume chronologically and geographically is thus enormous, but all international contributors have in common their expertise in the study of the history, literature, religion, and culture of the Jews. Jewish studies is a comparatively young discipline which has grown over the past fifty years in a somewhat undisciplined way. In a period of great upheaval for Jews following the Holocaust, the creation of the State of Israel, the emergence of new forms of dialogue between Jews and Christians, deepening divisions between secular and religious Jews, and unprecedented assimilation by diaspora Jews to the wider culture, the study of Jewish traditions and history has rarely been dispassionate. There have been some attempts in recent years to encapsulate current conclusions about particular aspects of Jewish studies, but these other works aim to provide compendia of agreed facts rather than a survey of interests and directions such as is found in this text. The book begins with an examination of Jewish studies as an academic discipline in its own right. The first half of the volume is organized chronologically, followed by sections on languages and literature, general aspects of religion, and other branches of Jewish studies which have each accumulated a considerable corpus of scholarship over the past half-century.

Keywords: Europe, United States, history, literature, religion, culture, Jews, Holocaust, State of Israel, Christians

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Publisher:: Oxford University Press

Print Publication Date:: Dec 2004

ISBN:: 9780199280322

Published online:: Sep 2009

DOI:: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199280322.001.0001

Editor

Martin Goodman, editor
Martin Goodman is Professor of Jewish Studies, University of Oxford.

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Front Matter
- The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies
- List of Contributors
- List of Abbreviations
- Preface
The Nature of Jewish Studies Martin Goodman
Biblical Studies and Jewish StudiesAlan Cooper
Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple PeriodMartin Goodman
The Literature of the Second Temple PeriodJohn J. Collins
Historiography on the Jews in the ‘Talmudic Period’ (70–640 ce)Schwartz Seth
Classical Rabbinic LiteratureCatherine Hezser
The Narratives of Medieval Jewish HistoryJoseph Dan
Medieval Jewry In ChristendomRam Ben-Shalom
Medieval Jewry in the World of IslamMark R. Cohen
Rabbinic Literature in the Middle Ages 1000–1492Israel Ta-Shma
The Study of Hebrew Literature of the Middle Ages: Major Trends and GoalsTova Rosen and Eli Yassif
Medieval KaraismMeira Polliack
Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries since 1492Sarah Abrevaya Stein
European Jewry in the Early Modern Period: 1492–1750Elisheva Carlebach
Western and Central European Jewry in the Modern Period: 1750–1933David Rechter
Eastern European Jewry in the Modern Period: 1750–1939Michael Stanislawski
The HolocaustSaul Friedländer
Settlement and State in Eretz IsraelS. Ilan Troen
American Jewish HistoryHasia Diner
The Hebrew LanguagePablo-Isaac Halevi (Kirtchuk)
Modern Hebrew LiteratureGlenda Abramson
Yiddish StudiesCecile E. Kuznitz
Judaeo-Spanish StudiesOra (Rodrigue) Schwarzwald
Judaeo-Arabic and Judaeo-PersianGeoffrey Khan
Other Diaspora Jewish Literatures Since 1492Ilan Stavans
Halacha and LawB. S. Jackson, B. Lifshitz, A. Gray, and D. B. Sinclair
Bible InterpretationMichael Fishbane
MysticismPhilip S. Alexander
Jewish Liturgy and Jewish Scholarship: Method and CosmologyLawrence A. Hoffman
Jewish Philosophy and TheologyPaul Mendes-Flohr
Jewish Women's StudiesTal Ilan
DemographySergio Della Pergola
Art, Architecture, and ArchaeologyLee I. Levine
MusicPhilip V. Bohlman
Jewish TheatreAhuva Belkin and Gad Kaynar
Jewish and Israeli Film StudiesMoshe Zimerman
Anti-Semitism ResearchWolfgang Benz
Jewish Folklore and EthnographyGalit Hasan-Rokem
Modern Jewish Society and SociologyHarvey E. Goldberg
End Matter
- Index

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