Rabbi Marcus Jastrow and His Vision for the Reform of Judaism
ISBN: 9781618113566
Platform/Publisher: De Gruyter / Academic Studies Press
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Rabbi Marcus Jastrow (1829-1903) was one of the most important figures of nineteenth-century Judaism, but is often neglected. This volume presents his life and his views on the reform of Judaism in the context of the changes and developments of Judaism in his lifetime. It covers his early life and his career in Europe as a preacher and rabbi in Warsaw, Mannheim, and Worms, and then discusses his activities in the United States, where he served as rabbi of Congregation Rodeph Shalom in Philadelphia, as well as his work on his famous dictionary. Jastrow was deeply involved in the important religious and scholarly initiatives of American Jewry: he took part in the emergence of Reform as well as Conservative Judaism, being involved in major controversies and polemics regarding them, and had a great impact on the creation of Jewish scholarship and Judaic studies in America.

Lev Louis Grinberg (PhD Tel Aviv University) is a political economist and sociologist and associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ben-Gurion University. He is the founding Chair of the Sociology and Anthropology Department (2006-2009), and is the former director of the Humphrey Institute for Social Research (1998-2003). He was a Fulbright visiting professor at UCLA in 1998, visiting professor at UC Berkeley, and was also granted Koret and Mellon fellowships. His fields of specialization are the history of the Zionist Labor Movement, Israel's political economy, and the sociology of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. His many publications include: Mizrachi Voices (2005), Imagined Peace, Discourse of War (2007); Politics and Violence in Israel/Palestine: Democracy vs. Military Rule (2010).

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