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Historicizing Orthodoxy
Publication Date: January 2008
Publisher(s): Association for Jewish Studies; Association for Jewish Studies
Author(s): Jay Berkovitz; Jay Berkovitz
Series: AJS Perspectives: The Newsletter of the Association for Jewish Studies, Spring 2008, pp.12-14.
Special Collection: Berman Jewish Policy Archive
Topic: Culture and religion (Religion and religious groups)
Social conditions (History)
Keywords: Orthodox Judaism; History; Religious Denominations; Religion
Type: Report
Coverage: United States United States
Abstract:
The author discusses evidence challenging the Orthodox Jewish self-perception of Orthodoxy as being of solid doctrinal continuity with historical rabbinic Judaism, and also challenging the academic argument that Orthodoxy's combative posture toward modern social and relgious trends of the ninetheenth century was unique and innovative. Rather, the author offers exampes to demonstrate that Orthodoxy has included a large spectrum of practices and ideologies.