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Response to Modernity
Comprehensive and balanced history of the Reform Movement. The movement for religious reform in modern Judaism represents one of the most significant phenomena in Jewish history during the last two hundred years. It introduced new theological conceptions and innovations in liturgy and religious practice that affected millions of Jews, first in central and Western Europe and later in the United States. Today Reform Judaism is one of the three major branches of Jewish faith. Bringing to life the ideas, issues, and personalities that have helped to shape modern Jewry, Response to Modernity offers a comprehensive and balanced history of the Reform Movement, tracing its changing configuration and self-understanding from the beginnings of modernization in late 18th century Jewish thought and practice through Reform's American renewal in the 1970s.
The Last Days of Old Beijing
Journalist Michael Meyer has spent his adult life in China, first in a small village as a Peace Corps volunteer, the last decade in Beijing--where he has witnessed the extraordinary transformation the country has experienced in that time. For the past two years he has been completely immersed in the ancient city, living on one of its famed hutong in a century-old courtyard home he shares with several families, teaching English at a local elementary school--while all around him "progress" closes in as the neighborhood is methodically destroyed to make way for high-rise buildings, shopping malls, and other symbols of modern, urban life. The city, he shows, has been demolished many times before...
Ideas of Jewish History
Acquaints the reader with both the universal and the particular challenges inherent in the writing of Jewish history.
Ibsen
This book is about Ibsen and the definitive life he led as a founding genius of modern European theatre.
Michael A. Meyer Papers
Papers document the career of Dr. Meyer during his time as the Adolph S. Ochs Professor of Jewish History at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, Ohio. The collection is particularly strong in documenting Dr. Meyer's scholarly and communal activities in organizations such as the Association for Jewish Studies, World Union for Progressive Judaism, Queens College, and Meyer's role as editor of the journal of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. The collection also contains correspondence with academic colleagues together with many files on the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, particularly pertaining to the College-Institute's Jerusalem campus. There are files on the Breira movement, the petition by Congregation Beth Adam (Cincinnati) to enter the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, and the beginnings of the Yavneh Day School in Cincinnati, Ohio. Three files (the Joseph Guttmann case, Jacob Neusner, and Jehuda Reinharz) are restricted. Requests to see these files must be made, in writing, to the Executive Director of the American Jewish Archives.
The Origins of the Modern Jew
An excellent overview of the intellectual history of important figures in German Jewry. Until the 18th century Jews lived in Christian Europe, spiritually and often physically removed form the stream of European culture. During the Enlightenment intellectual Europe accepted a philosophy which, by the universality of its ideals, reached out to embrace the Jew within the greater community of man. The Jew began to feel European, and his traditional identity became a problem for the first time. the response of the Jewish intellectual leadership in Germany to this crisis is the subject of this book. Chief among those men who struggled with the problems of Jewish consciousness were Moses Mendelssohn, David Friedlander, Leopold Zunz, Eduard Gans, and Heinrich Heine. By 1824, liberal Judaism had not yet produced a vision of it future as a separate entity within European society, but it had been exposed to and grappled with all the significant problems that still confront the Jew in the West.
In Manchuria
In the tradition of In Patagonia and Great Plains, Michael Meyer's In Manchuria is a scintillating combination of memoir, contemporary reporting, and historical research, presenting a unique profile of China's legendary northeast territory. For three years, Meyer rented a home in the rice-farming community of Wasteland, hometown to his wife's family. Their personal saga mirrors the tremendous change most of rural China is undergoing, in the form of a privately held rice company that has built new roads, introduced organic farming, and constructed high-rise apartments into which farmers can move in exchange for their land rights. Once a commune, Wasteland is now a company town, a phenomenon h...
Judaism Within Modernity
A collection of articles, most of them published previously. The following deal with antisemitism:
