Not by birth alone : conversion to Judaism / edited by Walter Homolka, Walter Jacob, Esther Seidel.
Contributor(s): Homolka, Walter
| Jacob, Walter | Seidel, Esther
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TextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: Herndon, VA : Cassell, 1997Description: xiv, 210 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0304338095 (pbk.); 0304338087Uniform titles: Nicht durch Geburt allein. English. Subject(s): Proselytizing -- Judaism -- History | Jewish converts from Christianity -- BiographyDDC classification: 296.7/14/09 LOC classification: BM729.P7 | N5313 1997Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-209).| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Preface / Walter Homolka. -- Acknowledgements. -- Contributors. -- Introduction: not by birth alone / Alexander M. Schindler. -- Your God is my God: conversion in the Hebrew Bible / Jonathan Magonet.-- Over land and sea for a proselyte? conversion in antiquity and the Talmudic Period / Dirk Herweg, Rachel Monika Herweg. -- From the Golden Age to the Inquisition: conversion during the Middle Ages / Esther Seidel. -- Out of the ghetto and into the open society: conversion from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century / Esther Seidel. -- Who is a Jew? conversion and Jewish identity today / Jonathan Magonet. -- Conversion and outreach in the United States / Walter Jacob. -- The Israeli situation: A struggle for Jewish Identity / Ilan Hameiri. -- The significance of motivation in the Halachah of conversion / Jonathan Wittenberg. -- Counting the commandments / John D. Rayner. -- Cases of conversion in Jewish history / Esther Seidel. -- Insiders and outsiders / Lionel Blue. -- I don't like converts / Hadassah Davis. -- Building bridges: a german of christian origin marries a Rabbi / Dorothea Magonet. -- The joy of being Jewish / Sibylle Sarah Niemoeller-Von Sell. -- A place for Yocheved / Carol Towarnicky. -- My story / Carolyn Greenfield. -- Jew by choice / Rose Coste. -- Jewish through and through / James W. Kramer. -- To a place I did not know: a journey to Judaism / Barbara-Ann Gamboa Lewis. -- My soul was standing at Sinai / Barbara Oleinick.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-209).
