A History of Judaism - Martin Goodman

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574 notes to pp. 492–502


Berkovits, see C. Raffel, ‘Eliezer Berkovits’, in S. Katz, ed., Interpreters of Judaism
in the Late Twentieth Century (Washington, DC, 1993), 1 - 15; on the declaration
in the Warsaw Ghetto, see G. Bacon, ‘Birthpangs of the Messiah: The Reflections
of Two Polish Rabbis on their Era’, SCJ 7 (1991), 86 - 99; I. Greenberg, ‘Cloud of
Smoke, Pillar of Fire: Judaism, Christianity, and Modernity after the Holocaust’,
in E.  Fleischner, ed., Auschwitz: Beginning of a New Era? Reflections on the
Holocaust (New York, 1977), 30, 33. 17. On Sabato Morais, see A.  Kiron,
‘Dust and Ashes: The Funeral and Forgetting of Sabato Morais’, AJH 84.3 (1996),
155 - 88; S. Schechter, Studies in Judaism (London, 1896), xvii– xviii; L. Finkelstein,
The Pharisees, 2 vols. (Philadelphia, 1936– 66). 18. See N.  Bentwich, Solomon
Schechter: A Biography (Cambridge, 1938); E. K. Kaplan, Holiness in Words: Hes‑
chel’s Poetics of Piety (Albany, NY, 1996). 19. J. Hellig, ‘Richard Rubenstein’, in
Katz, ed., Interpreters of Judaism in the Late Twentieth Century, 249 - 64. 20. R.
Gordis, ed., Emet ve‑ Emunah: Statement of Principles of Conservative Judaism
(New York, 1988), 19 - 22. 21. M. Waxman, Tradition and Change (New York,
1958), 361. 22. On the history of Reconstructionist Judaism, see J. Gurock and
J. Schacter, A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community: Mordecai M. Kaplan,
Orthodoxy, and American Judaism (New York, 1996); on the synagogue as com-
munity centre, see D. Kaufman, Shul with a Pool: The ‘Synagogue‑Center’ in
American Jewish History (Hanover, 1999). 23. R.  T.  Alpert and J.  J. Staub,
Exploring Judaism: A Reconstructionist Approach (New York, 2000). 24. On
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Judaism’s “Consistent Inconsistencies” ’, Conservative Judaism 59.3 (2007), 3 -





    1. L. Jacobs, We Have Reason to Believe (London, 1957; 3rd edn, 1965);
      on the history of Jewish ideas about ‘Torah from Heaven’, see N. Solomon, Torah
      from Heaven: The Reconstruction of Faith (Oxford, 2012).




Chapter 19: Rejection



  1. Isa 66:5; Ezra 10:3; S.  C. Heilman, Defenders of the Faith: Life among the
    Ultra‑ Orthodox (New York, 1992). 2. On the Indian wig scandal, see D. Wakin,
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    Times, 14 May 2004. 3. On the role of women in haredi society, see T. El- Or,
    Educated and Ignorant (Boulder, Colo., 1994); N. Stadler, Yeshiva Fundamental‑
    ism: Piety, Gender and Resistance in the Ultra‑ Orthodox World (New York,
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    Moshe Sofer (Lakewood, NJ, 1992). 5. Shulman, The Chasam Sofer, 25. 6.
    On Ganzfried, see J. Katz, ‘The Changing Position and Outlook of Halachists in
    Early Modernity’, in L.  Landman, ed., Scholars and Scholarship (New York,
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    Hayim (New York, 1937); on the Mishnah Berurah, see S. Fishbane, The Method
    and Meaning of the Mishnah Berurah (Hoboken, NJ, 1991); on Karelitz, see
    S. Finkelman, The Chazon Ish: The Life and Ideals of Rabbi Yeshayah Karelitz

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