The New Jewish Canon

The New Jewish Canon 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.

“Anyone interested in contemporary Judaism will benefit from this diverse and dynamic collection. The book’s commentarial structure performs the creation of a new canon of Jewish ideas while also inviting readers to participate in current debates about Jewish politics, history, religion, and identity.”
— Leora Batnitzky, Ronald O. Perelman Professor of Jewish Studies, Princeton University

“The New Jewish Canon is a map and a guidebook to the shifting intellectual and spiritual landscape of contemporary Jewish life. It is an invitation to deep reflection, a catalyst for passionate discussion, and an invaluable resource for provocative teaching. It is a book to be kept close at hand as the Jewish community struggles to understand where we have come from, and where we are going.” — Rabbi Ed Feinstein, author of Tough Questions Jews Ask and Senior Rabbi, Valley Beth Shalom, Encino, California

“Extraordinarily rich, lively and illuminating. … [The editors] have succeeded magnificently in achieving their goal.” —Jewish Journal

 “This is a rich col­lec­tion that pro­vides a win­dow into many of the key debates that have raged, and still rage, in the Jew­ish world. It rais­es many provoca­tive ques­tions about the nature of con­tem­po­rary Judaism and its future.” — Martin Green, Jewish Book Council

“This is a rich col­lec­tion that pro­vides a win­dow into many of the key debates that have raged, and still rage, in the Jew­ish world. It rais­es many provoca­tive ques­tions about the nature of con­tem­po­rary Judaism and its future.” —Martin Green, Jewish Book Council

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. The New Jewish Canon 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, The New Jewish Canon promises to start conversations from the seminar room to the dinner table. 

The New Jewish Canon 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.

• | Author: Claire E. Sufrin, Yehuda Kurtzer
• | Publisher: Academic Studies Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 20, 2020
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781644693612
• | ISBN-10: 1644693615