Reappraisals and New Studies of the Modern Jewish Experience

Historians explore Jewish life and modern questions in Russia and Eastern Europe, Jewish thought and questions of identity, and Jewish religion and politics in America. Their topics include the making of Soviet Jewish rituals and the emergence of folk legitimacy, Joshua Hezekiah Decordova and a rabbinic counter-enlightenment from colonial Jamaica, Jacob B. Agus as an example of how much Eastern Europe is in American Jewish thought, lay and rabbinic conflict in mid-19th-century America, and ideological perspectives of the first generation of students to attend Stephen S. Wise's Jewish Institute of Religion. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Brian M. Smollett, Ph.D. (2014), Assistant Dean of List College at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, where he also teaches courses in Jewish thought. He is a graduate of Binghamton University, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and the City University of New York, Graduate Center, where he earned his Ph.D. in Jewish history (2014). He formerly taught Jewish and European history at Queens College and at Hunter College (CUNY) where he was associate director of the program in Jewish studies. He has published a number of essays and reviews in the fields of Modern Jewish history and Jewish thought.Christian Wiese, Ph.D.(1997), University of Frankfurt am Main, is the Martin Buber Professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy at the Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. His publications includeChallenging Colonial Discourse: Jewish Studies and Protestant Theology in Wilhelmine Germany(Brill, 2005); The Life and Thought of Hans Jonas: Jewish Dimensions (University of New England Press, 2007).