TY  - BOOK
AU  - Berkowitz,Beth A.
TI  - Defining Jewish difference: from antiquity to the present 
SN  - 978-1-107-01371-1
U1  - 305.8924 23E
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge, New York, Melbourne [etc.]
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Jews--Identity
KW  - Rabbinical literature--History and criticism
KW  - Jews--Cultural assimilation
N1  - Bibliogr. p. 249-274; Introduction : law, identity, and Leviticus 18:3 -- The question of Israelite distinctiveness: paradigms of separatism in Leviticus 18:3 -- Allegory and ambiguity : Jewish identity in Philo's De congressu -- A narrative of neighbors : rethinking universalism and particularism in patristic and rabbinic writings -- The limits of "their laws" in Midrash halakhah -- A short history of the people Israel from the patriarchs to the Messiah: constructions of Jewish difference in Leviticus Rabbah -- Syncretism and anti-syncretism in the Babylonian Talmud -- The judaization of reason: the Tosafists, Nissim gerondi, and Joseph Colon -- Women's wear and men's suits: Ovadiah Yosef's and Moshe Feinstein's discourses of Jewishness -- Conclusion : an "upside-down people"?
ER  -