One People?

Rabbi Jonathan SacksSKU: ATT-BKE-OPPB

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Tradition, Modernity, and Jewish Unity
"Recent history-the Holocaust, and the sense of involvement that most
Jews throughout the world feel in the fate of Israel - has convinced us that
the Jewish destiny is indivisible. We are implicated each in the fate of one
another. That is the substantive content of our current sense of unity. But it
is a unity imposed, as it were, from outside. Neither antisemitism nor anti-
Zionism, we believe, makes distinctions between Jews. Hence our collective
vigilance, activity, and concern. But from within, in terms of its own self-
understanding, the Jewish people evinces no answering solidarity.... For a
people as for an individual, authenticity requires that the terms of identity
proceed from within, not from outside."
- Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
One People?, first published in 1993, examines ways of mending the schisms
between Reform and Orthodox Judaism, between religious and secular
Jews in Israel, and between Israel itself and the diaspora - all of which have
been deepened by the fierce and continuing controversy over the question
of "Who is a Jew?"
One People? is a study of the background to this and related controversies.
It traces the fragmentation of Jewry in the wake of the Enlightenment, the
variety of Orthodox responses to these challenges, and the resources of Jew-
ish tradition for handling diversity. Having set out the background to the
intractability of the problems, it ends by examining the possibilities within
Jewish thought that might make for convergence and reconciliation. Rabbi
Sacks employs a variety of disciplines - history, sociology, theology, and
halakhic jurisprudence - to clarify a subject in which these dimensions are
inextricably interwoven. He also explores key issues such as the underlying
philosophy of Jewish law, and the nature of the collision between tradition
and modern consciousness.
Written for the general reader as well as
the academic, this is a lucid and thought-
provoking presentation of the dilemmas
of Jewish Orthodoxy in modernity.
Sku:
ATT-BKE-OPPB
Author:
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Isbn 13:
9781592646265
Isbn 10:
1592646263
Pages:
319
Size:
5.5" x 8.5"
Binding:
Paperback
Date:
5/15/2024
Imprint:
Maggid

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