The New Jewish Canon - (Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah) by Yehuda Kurtzer & Claire E Sufrin (Paperback)

About the Book

The New Jewish Canon is both text and textbook of the Jewish intellectual and communal zeitgeist for the contemporary period. With both primary sources and analytical essays by leading scholars, this book offers a conceptual roadmap to make sense of the mass production and proliferation of new Jewish ideas in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Book Synopsis

The New Jewish Canon is both text and textbook of the Jewish intellectual and communal zeitgeist for the contemporary period. With both primary sources and analytical essays by leading scholars, this book offers a conceptual roadmap to make sense of the mass production and proliferation of new Jewish ideas in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Review Quotes

"Extraordinarily rich, lively and illuminating. ... [The editors] have succeeded magnificently in achieving their goal."

-Jonathan Kirsch, the Jewish Journal

"This is a rich
col-lec-tion that pro-vides a win-dow into many of the key debates that have
raged, and still rage, in the Jew-ish world. It rais-es many provoca-tive ques-tions
about the nature of con-tem-po-rary Judaism and its future." -Martin Green,
Jewish Book Council

About the Author

Dr. Yehuda Kurtzer is the President of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, and a leading thinker and author on the meaning of Israel to American Jews, on Jewish history and Jewish memory, and on questions of leadership and change in American Jewish life. He is also the author of Shuva: The Future of the Jewish Past (Brandeis, 2012).

Dr. Claire E. Sufrin is a scholar of religion specializing in modern Jewish thought and theology. She is Associate Professor of Instruction and Assistant Director of Jewish Studies in the Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies at Northwestern University.