To be a Jew today : a new guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish people
(2024)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
296.3/FELDMAN,N

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 296.3/FELDMAN,N Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024
©2024
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

viii, 401 pages ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780374298340, 0374298343 :, 0374298343, 9780374298340
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Introduction -- Of God. The god of black and white ; The god of social justice ; The god whose law evolves ; Jews without god ; The struggle -- Of Israel. The idea of Israel ; Israel in the Jewish spirit ; Israel at the center ; Israel without Zionism ; Israel as struggle and the question of sin -- Of the Jewish people. What are the Jews? ; The chose ; The marriage plot ; Struggling together with God -- Conclusion: a Jew for all that

"A guide to contemporary Judaism by law professor and public intellectual Noah Feldman"--

What does it mean to be a Jew? At a time of worldwide crisis, venerable answers to this question have become unsettled. In To Be a Jew Today, the legal scholar and columnist Noah Feldman draws on a lifelong engagement with his religion to offer a wide-ranging interpretation of Judaism in its current varieties. How do Jews today understand their relationship to God, to Israel, and to each other--and live their lives accordingly?