A conceptual road-map of the proliferation of Jewish ideas in the late 20th and early 21st centuries that have informed major changes in Jewish life and stimulated discussion and debate.
The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have been a period of mass production and proliferation of Jewish ideas, and have witnessed major changes in Jewish life and stimulated major debates. The New Jewish Canon offers a conceptual roadmap to make sense of such rapid change. With over eighty excerpts from key primary source texts and insightful corresponding essays by leading scholars, on topics of history and memory, Jewish politics and the public square, religion and religiosity, and identities and communities, The New Jewish Canon promises to start conversations from the seminar room to the dinner table.
The New Jewish Canon is both text and textbook of the Jewish intellectual and communal zeitgeist for the contemporary period and the recent past, canonizing our most important ideas and debates of the past two generations; and just as importantly, stimulating debate and scholarship about what is yet to come.
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Mar 29, 2024
A resource to lead a Reading Group study and dialogue program of Yehuda Kurtzer and Claire Sufrin's book, The New Jewish Canon.
Mar 29, 2024
Review of The New Jewish Canon: Ideas & Debates 1980-2015, edited by Yehuda Kurtzer and Claire E. Sufrin.
Mar 29, 2024
In "The New Jewish Canon," Yehuda Kurtzer and Claire Sufrin collect 35 years of communal debate.
Apr 30, 2021
Final session in 4-part series from The New Jewish Canon on the Texts & Topics Shaping Modern Jewish Life.
Feb 4, 2021
Second of a 4-part series from The New Jewish Canon on the Texts & Topics Shaping Modern Jewish Life.
Feb 1, 2021
Yehuda Kurtzer and Claire Sufrin discuss Judaism’s recent transformation and their new book ‘The New Jewish Canon’ on Times of Israel's 'Behind the Headlines'
Jan 27, 2021
The New Jewish Canon was listed as a finalist in the "Modern Jewish Thought and Experience" category for the 2020 awards.
Oct 8, 2020
In "The New Jewish Canon," Yehuda Kurtzer and Claire Sufrin collect 35 years of communal debate.
Oct 2, 2020
What is a contemporary Jewish canon? Who decides what's in and what's out, what are the ramifications of those choices, and why does it matter?
Jul 16, 2020
Review of The New Jewish Canon: Ideas & Debates 1980-2015, edited by Yehuda Kurtzer and Claire E. Sufrin.
Jul 14, 2020
Co-editors Yehuda Kurtzer and Claire Sufrin celebrate the launch of their book in conversation with writer and journalist Abby Pogrebin.