Arnold Eisen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3597313 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arnold Eisen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arnold |
| FAMILY NAME | Eisen |
| SIGNATURE | EISEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Boomers, Millennials and the Shape of American Judaism
The Case for "Assimilation" and Diaspora
Abraham Joshua Heschel and the Challenge of Religious Pluralism
Journal Article Abraham Joshua Heschel and the Challenge of Religious Pluralism Get access Arnold Eisen Arnold Eisen Jewish Theological Seminary of America [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 29, Issue 1, February 2009, Pages 4–15, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/kjn018 Published: 21 March 2009
Mordecai Kaplan's Judaism as a Civilization at 70: Setting the Stage for Reappraisal
Mordecai Kaplan'sJudaism as a Civilizationat 70: Setting the Stage for Reappraisal
One of my favorite paragraphs in Mordecai M. Kaplan's Judaism as a Civilization—the wonderful and influential book that was the subject of a conference held at Stanford University in 2004 marking the seventieth anniversary of its publication, and the book that forms the principal subject of the articles in this volume—occurs at the very end, when Kaplan, after some 522 pages (not counting footnotes), finally prepares to take leave of his reader. …
The Jew Within: Self, Family, and Community in America
In The Jew Within, Steven M. Cohen and Arnold M. Eisen argue that contemporary American Jews have loosened their connections to organized public religion and turned inward, searching for a Judaism that is rooted in profound individualism and ambivalent toward the many ethnic institutions that defined an earlier generation. Echoing conclusions drawn by Robert Wuthnow and Wade Clark Roof, Cohen and Eisen contend that “the discovery and construction…
Rethinking Modern Judaism: Ritual, Commandment, Community
Journal Article Rethinking Modern Judaism: Ritual, Commandment, Community by Arnold M. Eisen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998, 339pp. $35 (cloth), $18. (paper) Get access Edward Breuer Edward Breuer Loyola University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 62, Issue 1, Spring 2001, Pages 133–135, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712236 Published: 01 March 2001
Roundtable on Yossi Beilin's The Death of the American Uncle: A Review
THERE ARE TWO AMERICAN RELATIVES who make appearances in Yossi Beilin's call for a rethinking of the Israel-diaspora relationship, each of them at once real and fictitious. The first is the fabled aunt from Long Island who has reportedly been sending packages of food and clothing to her nephew in Israel, a friend of Beilin's, since the earliest days of the State. When told by her beneficiary in the 1970s that such assistance is no longer required…
Reflections on the State of Zionist Thought
Journal Article REFLECTIONS ON THE STATE OF ZIONIST THOUGHT Get access Arnold M. Eisen Arnold M. Eisen STANFORD UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 18, Issue 3, October 1998, Pages 253–266, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/18.3.253 Published: 01 October 1998
In the Wilderness: Reflections on American Jewish Culture
Le but de l'auteur de cet article est de considerer la nature et les perspectives de la culture juive americaine a la fin d'un siecle ou cette culture s'est le plus developpee. Pour donner une definition de la culture juive, il passe du temps sur les problemes complexes qu'une telle oeuvre rencontre si elle veut etre authentique. Il peut alors porter un jugement plus eclaire sur le degre qu'une culture juive americaine, si elle existe, a pu attei…
Limits and virtues of dialogue
Beyond the Classics? Essays in Religious Studies and Liberal Education . Frank E. Reynolds , Sheryl L. Burkhalter
Divine Legislation as “Ceremonial Script”: Mendelssohn on the Commandments
My aim in this essay is to analyze a section of Moses Mendelssohn's Jerusalem largely ignored by previous readers. The treatise has generally been recognized as epochal in the history of modern Judaism, and Altmann, Guttmann, Rawidowicz, and Rotenstreich have therefore focused quite understandably on that which made it so: the novel political theory set forth in part 1, or the controversial assertion near the start of part 2 that Judaism “knows o…
The rhetoric of chosenness
Re–reading Heschel on the Commandments
Journal Article RE–READING HESCHEL ON THE COMMANDMENTS Get access Arnold Eisen Arnold Eisen STANFORD UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 9, Issue 1, February 1989, Pages 1–34, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/9.1.1 Published: 01 February 1989
Death and Birth of Judaism: The Impact of Christianity, Secularism, and the Holocaust on Jewish Faith. Jacob Neusner
The Jewish Holidays: A Guide and Commentary
Jewish Adjustment in Western Countries
The Chosen People in America: A Study in Jewish Religious Ideology
Journal Article The Chosen People in America: A Study in Jewish Religious Ideology. By Arnold M. Eisen. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983. xi + 237 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $17.50.) Get access Maxine Schwartz Seller Maxine Schwartz Seller State University of New York, Buffalo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 71, Issue 3, December 1984, Pages 598–599,…
Myth, Symbol, and Reality
Theology, Sociology, Ideology: Jewish Thought in America, 1925–1955
Journal Article THEOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY, IDEOLOGY: JEWISH THOUGHT IN AMERICA, 1925–1955 Get access Arnold Eisen Arnold Eisen COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 2, Issue 1, February 1982, Pages 91–103, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/2.1.91 Published: 01 February 1982
Called to Order: The Role of the Puritan Berufsmensch in Weberian Sociology
The significance of Puritan 'asceticism' - especially the focal idea of the calling - for rationalized Western culture in all its aspects has been examined as Weber proposed, but its role in shaping the method and substance of Weber's own work has gone largely unexamined. In the present essay a reading of 'mainstream' English Puritan writings on the calling is presented, and Weber's representation of the idea is found to be accurate except for an…
The Meanings and Confusions of Weberian 'Rationality
Group processes in a voluntary psychiatric hospital
The Meanings and Confusions of Weberian 'Rationality
Called to Order: The Role of the Puritan Berufsmensch in Weberian Sociology
The significance of Puritan 'asceticism' - especially the focal idea of the calling - for rationalized Western culture in all its aspects has been examined as Weber proposed, but its role in shaping the method and substance of Weber's own work has gone largely unexamined. In the present essay a reading of 'mainstream' English Puritan writings on the calling is presented, and Weber's representation of the idea is found to be accurate except for an…
Abraham Joshua Heschel and the Challenge of Religious Pluralism
Journal Article Abraham Joshua Heschel and the Challenge of Religious Pluralism Get access Arnold Eisen Arnold Eisen Jewish Theological Seminary of America [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 29, Issue 1, February 2009, Pages 4–15, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/kjn018 Published: 21 March 2009
Divine Legislation as “Ceremonial Script”: Mendelssohn on the Commandments
My aim in this essay is to analyze a section of Moses Mendelssohn's Jerusalem largely ignored by previous readers. The treatise has generally been recognized as epochal in the history of modern Judaism, and Altmann, Guttmann, Rawidowicz, and Rotenstreich have therefore focused quite understandably on that which made it so: the novel political theory set forth in part 1, or the controversial assertion near the start of part 2 that Judaism “knows o…
Reflections on the State of Zionist Thought
Journal Article REFLECTIONS ON THE STATE OF ZIONIST THOUGHT Get access Arnold M. Eisen Arnold M. Eisen STANFORD UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 18, Issue 3, October 1998, Pages 253–266, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/18.3.253 Published: 01 October 1998
In the Wilderness: Reflections on American Jewish Culture
Le but de l'auteur de cet article est de considerer la nature et les perspectives de la culture juive americaine a la fin d'un siecle ou cette culture s'est le plus developpee. Pour donner une definition de la culture juive, il passe du temps sur les problemes complexes qu'une telle oeuvre rencontre si elle veut etre authentique. Il peut alors porter un jugement plus eclaire sur le degre qu'une culture juive americaine, si elle existe, a pu attei…
Jewish Adjustment in Western Countries
Group processes in a voluntary psychiatric hospital
The Meanings and Confusions of Weberian 'Rationality
Called to Order: The Role of the Puritan Berufsmensch in Weberian Sociology
The significance of Puritan 'asceticism' - especially the focal idea of the calling - for rationalized Western culture in all its aspects has been examined as Weber proposed, but its role in shaping the method and substance of Weber's own work has gone largely unexamined. In the present essay a reading of 'mainstream' English Puritan writings on the calling is presented, and Weber's representation of the idea is found to be accurate except for an…
Theology, Sociology, Ideology: Jewish Thought in America, 1925–1955
Journal Article THEOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY, IDEOLOGY: JEWISH THOUGHT IN AMERICA, 1925–1955 Get access Arnold Eisen Arnold Eisen COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 2, Issue 1, February 1982, Pages 91–103, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/2.1.91 Published: 01 February 1982
The Chosen People in America: A Study in Jewish Religious Ideology
Journal Article The Chosen People in America: A Study in Jewish Religious Ideology. By Arnold M. Eisen. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983. xi + 237 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $17.50.) Get access Maxine Schwartz Seller Maxine Schwartz Seller State University of New York, Buffalo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 71, Issue 3, December 1984, Pages 598–599,…
Myth, Symbol, and Reality
The Jewish Holidays: A Guide and Commentary
Jewish Adjustment in Western Countries
Death and Birth of Judaism: The Impact of Christianity, Secularism, and the Holocaust on Jewish Faith. Jacob Neusner
Re–reading Heschel on the Commandments
Journal Article RE–READING HESCHEL ON THE COMMANDMENTS Get access Arnold Eisen Arnold Eisen STANFORD UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 9, Issue 1, February 1989, Pages 1–34, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/9.1.1 Published: 01 February 1989
Divine Legislation as “Ceremonial Script”: Mendelssohn on the Commandments
My aim in this essay is to analyze a section of Moses Mendelssohn's Jerusalem largely ignored by previous readers. The treatise has generally been recognized as epochal in the history of modern Judaism, and Altmann, Guttmann, Rawidowicz, and Rotenstreich have therefore focused quite understandably on that which made it so: the novel political theory set forth in part 1, or the controversial assertion near the start of part 2 that Judaism “knows o…
The rhetoric of chosenness
Beyond the Classics? Essays in Religious Studies and Liberal Education . Frank E. Reynolds , Sheryl L. Burkhalter
Limits and virtues of dialogue
Reflections on the State of Zionist Thought
Journal Article REFLECTIONS ON THE STATE OF ZIONIST THOUGHT Get access Arnold M. Eisen Arnold M. Eisen STANFORD UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 18, Issue 3, October 1998, Pages 253–266, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/18.3.253 Published: 01 October 1998
In the Wilderness: Reflections on American Jewish Culture
Le but de l'auteur de cet article est de considerer la nature et les perspectives de la culture juive americaine a la fin d'un siecle ou cette culture s'est le plus developpee. Pour donner une definition de la culture juive, il passe du temps sur les problemes complexes qu'une telle oeuvre rencontre si elle veut etre authentique. Il peut alors porter un jugement plus eclaire sur le degre qu'une culture juive americaine, si elle existe, a pu attei…
Roundtable on Yossi Beilin's The Death of the American Uncle: A Review
THERE ARE TWO AMERICAN RELATIVES who make appearances in Yossi Beilin's call for a rethinking of the Israel-diaspora relationship, each of them at once real and fictitious. The first is the fabled aunt from Long Island who has reportedly been sending packages of food and clothing to her nephew in Israel, a friend of Beilin's, since the earliest days of the State. When told by her beneficiary in the 1970s that such assistance is no longer required…
Rethinking Modern Judaism: Ritual, Commandment, Community
Journal Article Rethinking Modern Judaism: Ritual, Commandment, Community by Arnold M. Eisen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998, 339pp. $35 (cloth), $18. (paper) Get access Edward Breuer Edward Breuer Loyola University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 62, Issue 1, Spring 2001, Pages 133–135, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712236 Published: 01 March 2001
The Jew Within: Self, Family, and Community in America
In The Jew Within, Steven M. Cohen and Arnold M. Eisen argue that contemporary American Jews have loosened their connections to organized public religion and turned inward, searching for a Judaism that is rooted in profound individualism and ambivalent toward the many ethnic institutions that defined an earlier generation. Echoing conclusions drawn by Robert Wuthnow and Wade Clark Roof, Cohen and Eisen contend that “the discovery and construction…
Mordecai Kaplan's Judaism as a Civilization at 70: Setting the Stage for Reappraisal
Mordecai Kaplan'sJudaism as a Civilizationat 70: Setting the Stage for Reappraisal
One of my favorite paragraphs in Mordecai M. Kaplan's Judaism as a Civilization—the wonderful and influential book that was the subject of a conference held at Stanford University in 2004 marking the seventieth anniversary of its publication, and the book that forms the principal subject of the articles in this volume—occurs at the very end, when Kaplan, after some 522 pages (not counting footnotes), finally prepares to take leave of his reader. …
Abraham Joshua Heschel and the Challenge of Religious Pluralism
Journal Article Abraham Joshua Heschel and the Challenge of Religious Pluralism Get access Arnold Eisen Arnold Eisen Jewish Theological Seminary of America [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 29, Issue 1, February 2009, Pages 4–15, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/kjn018 Published: 21 March 2009
The Case for "Assimilation" and Diaspora
Boomers, Millennials and the Shape of American Judaism
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