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Pledges of Jewish Allegiance:
Conversion, Law, and Policy-Making
in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century
Orthodox Responsa
David Ellenson, N ’77, and Daniel Gordis
Stanford University Press, 2012
By examining a wide
array of legal opinions
written by Orthodox
Rabbis in 19th- and
20
th-century Europe,
the U.S., and Israel on
what constitutes legit-
imate conversion to
Judaism, this book ar-
gues that these rabbis’
divergent positions –
based on the same legal precedents – demon-
strate that they were crafting public policy for
Jewish society in response to Jews’ social and
political interactions as equals with non-Jewish
persons in whose midst they dwelled.
The JPS Bible Commentary: Ruth
Tamara Cohn Eskenazi
and Tikva Frymer-Kensky
The Jewish Publication Society, 2011
A critical, line-by-line
commentary of the
biblical text of Ruth,
with its themes of
loyalty, loving kind-
ness (
hesed
),
and
redemption, in its
original Hebrew, com-
plete with vocalization
and cantillation marks,
as well as the 1985 JPS English translation.
Awarded the 2011 National Jewish Book Award.
Learned Ignorance: Intellectual
Humility among Jews, Christians,
and Muslims
Edited by James Heft,
Reuven Firestone, N ’82, and Omid Safi
Oxford University Press, 2011
The Institute for
Advanced Catholic
Studies brought to-
gether an international
group of sixteen
Jewish, Catholic, and
Muslim scholars to
carry on an important
theological exploration
of the theme of
''
learned ignorance.''
This volume features the first dialogue among
Christians, Muslims, and Jews on intellectual
humility and knowledge of God, and the first
non-mystical study of the concept of "learned
ignorance."
The International Handbook
of Jewish Education
Edited by Helena Miller, Lisa D. Grant,
and Alex Pomson
Springer, 2011
This two volume publi-
cation brings together
scholars and practi-
tioners engaged in the
field of Jewish Educa-
tion and its cognate
fields world-wide and
features articles by
members of the HUC-
JIR faculty.
HUC-JIR
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