'The Jewish Press' - A Gevalt from the Torah True

The book is a study of a Jewish Orthodox newspaper from New York. Reading this paper over a 40-year period makes for a new understanding of the phenomenon Orthodoxy. The Orthodox ideology of The Jewish Press is a result of hegemonic struggles with other ideologies about defining how to be Jewish in the modern world.

The Jewish Press' purpose is to promote Jewish Orthodoxy. The book explores this popular American Jewish newspaper and more precisely the development of the paper's ideology over a period of forty years offering a new understanding of the phenomenon Orthodoxy. Orthodoxy must be understood as a dynamic concept continually changing as a result of historical developments and hegemonic struggles with other ideologies about telling the Jew in modern society how he is to understand himself and the surrounding world.

Autorentext

Sahra L. Lindeberg holds a BA and MA in Science of Religion from Aarhus University Denmark and studied three years at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. After earning her PhD, she taught Jewish Studies at Syddansk University.

Klappentext

The Jewish Press purpose is to promote Jewish Orthodoxy. The book explores this popular American Jewish newspaper and more precisely the development of the paper s ideology over a period of forty years offering a new understanding of the phenomenon Orthodoxy. Orthodoxy must be understood as a dynamic concept continually changing as a result of historical developments and hegemonic struggles with other ideologies about telling the Jew in modern society how he is to understand himself and the surrounding world.

Inhalt
Contents: Jewish Orthodoxy American Jewry Holocaust Rabbi Meir Kahane Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis Religious Radicalism Fundamentalism Religous Zionism Ideology Newspapers The Trial of Adolf Eichmann The Camp David Accord The Oslo Accord The murder of Yitzhak Rabin The Six-Day War Women in Green Ruth and Nadia Matar.