audiobook The Other Kurds: Yazidis in Colonial Iraq (Library of Modern Middle East Studies) by Nelida Fuccaro in History

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One People? is the first book-length study of the major problem confronting the Jewish future: the availability or otherwise of a way 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 Jewish 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. The Chief Rabbi 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 much as the academic one; this is a lucid and thought-provoking presentation of the dilemmas of Jewish Orthodoxy in modernity.