An Historical Overview of Outreach and Conversion in Judaism

Publication Date: January 1990

Publisher: Conference of Jewish Communal Service (U.S.)

Author(s): Robert M. Seltzer

Research Area: Culture and religion

Keywords: Jewish Outreach; Jewish Identification; Conversion

Type: Report

Coverage: World

Abstract:

There have been much more conversion and outreach to Judaism in the past than the conventional picture implies. The lack of interest that has been predominant since the late Middle Ages is only a limited phase in a long history of cycles of isolation and outreach. We may now be entering into a new historic era of outreach.