Adam S Ferziger
Biographic Data
| ID | 631474 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam S Ferziger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam S |
| FAMILY NAME | Ferziger |
| SIGNATURE | FERZIGER A S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bar-Ilan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7611-7155 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A Daf of Our Own: Gender, Talmud Study, and Orthodox Judaism in Digital Space
The daf yomi (literally, daily page/folio) multiyear Talmud-study cycle was conceived in the early twentieth century as a means to unify Jews worldwide through a common consistent encounter with the foundational text of rabbinic Judaism. Participation has grown dramatically in recent decades. Since its inception, the overwhelming majority of partakers were Orthodox men. The year 2020 marked a watershed, when over three thousand attendees congrega…
Noah Feldman, To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People
Ben-Gurion and American Jewish Students at the Cusp of the Sixties: Between Solidarity and Persuasion
On March 8, 1960, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion landed in Boston to deliver a major address at Brandeis University. Although the focus of the rest of his U.S. trip was diplomatic, he ended his stay with New York appearances on March 16 at the Reform movement's HUC–JIR, the Conservative-associated JTS, and the Orthodox-affiliated YU. At all four campuses, he encouraged American Jewish students to spend a year of study in Israel, a practice that …
A Synagogue Center Grows in Tel Aviv: On Glocalization, Consumerism and Religion
Alongside the ongoing dominance of Orthodox Judaism in Israel, novel liberal religious frameworks have emerged that seek to address the needs of various constituencies through innovative approaches to synagogue life. One of the most active and successful is the Reform “Beit-Daniel” in Tel- Aviv, Israel's urban epicenter. In this article, the institutional structure that emerged in Beit-Daniel is compared with another neighboring synagogue, the Co…
Israelization and Lived Religion: Conflicting Accounts of Contemporary Judaism
Sanctuaries and battlefields: Two worlds of Judaism and two orthodox feminisms
Orthodox Jewish feminism arose in North America during the 1970s. In Israel, Torah study for women grew simultaneously, but more radical changes in the ritual and leadership realms only gained prominence in the twenty-first century. This chronology suggests that regarding Orthodox feminism, the gap between Orthodox life in these centres narrowed. This conclusion, however, only accounts for a certain way that religion manifests itself in Israel. T…
Fluidity and Bifurcation: Critical Biblical Scholarship and Orthodox Judaism in Israel and North America
Contemporary Orthodox rabbis and educators have evinced an increasing degree of acceptance of critical approaches to the Hebrew Bible, including the possibility of multiple authorship. Considerable documentation for this phenomenon was collected by Marc Shapiro in an article that appeared in 2017.1 A rigorous chronicler of the theological spectrum of Orthodox Judaism, he asserted that this was striking, since “For centuries now, traditional Jewis…
Sanctuary for the Specialist: Gender and the Reconceptualization of the American Orthodox Rabbinate
On February 1, 2017, the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, the nation's largest Orthodox synagogue association, adopted a ruling that prohibits women from serving as clergy. The swift electronic dissemination of the ruling set off a wave of passionate protests along with vociferous expressions of support. The ruling encourages extensive female involvement in public religious leadership, a position at odds with prior statements of…
Female Clergy in Male Space: The Sacralization of the Orthodox Rabbinate
A Reply to Ian Lustick’s Article: Editor’s Note: This Comment is a Response to Ian Lustick’s Article in This Issue of Contemporary Jewry v37(1)
Foreign Ashes in Sovereign Space: Cremation and the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, 1931-1990
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
State and Spirit: Sovereignty, Law, and Theology« Introduction
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
State and Spirit,« Introduction
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
Beyond Bais Ya'akov: Orthodox Outreach and the Emergence of Haredi Women as Religious Leaders
The twentieth century witnessed an array of fresh models of Jewish women's educational and religious leadership. Quite understandably, the majority of the scholarly focus has been on burgeoning egalitarian trends featured in the new roles for women within liberal Jewish denominations and among the Modern Orthodox. Yet increased appreciation for gendered perspectives within Jewish studies has also led to recognition that seemingly conventional fem…
Hungarian Separatist Orthodoxy and the Migration of Its Legacy to America: The Greenwald-Hirschenson Debate
Amid the myriad Jewish efforts to accommodate modern Europe's novel realities, Hungarian Orthodoxy stood out, according to Jacob Katz, in promoting "enhancement of the tradition...limitation of contact with the outside world...[and] exclusion of the recalcitrants." Over the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, prominent disciples of this stream spread its influence to other parts of the Jewish world. Although the Orthodox …
From Lubavitch to Lakewood: The Chabadization of American Orthodoxy
Journal Article From Lubavitch to Lakewood: The Chabadization of American Orthodoxy Get access Adam S. Ferziger Adam S. Ferziger Bar-Ilan University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 33, Issue 2, May 2013, Pages 101–124, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/kjt007 Published: 02 April 2013
Daniel B. SCHWARTZ. The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image
Journal Article Daniel B. Schwartz. The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image. Get access Daniel B. Schwartz. The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image.Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 2012. Pp. xv, 270. $39.50. Adam S. Ferziger Adam S. Ferziger Bar-Ilan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 118, Issue 3, June 2013, Pag…
Ashes to Outcasts: Cremation, Jewish Law, and Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Germany
When Chief Rabbi Ḥayim (Vittorio) Castiglioni of Rome (b. 1840) passed away in 1911, he was cremated as per his request and his ashes were then buried in the Jewish cemetery of his native Trieste. One local Jewish newspaper pointed out that Castiglioni's position—cremation is permitted according to Jewish law and is even preferable to traditional burial—was definitely a minority one within the Italian rabbinate. By no means, however, was he accus…
Outside the Shul: The American Soviet Jewry Movement and the Rise of Solidarity Orthodoxy, 1964-1986
Concern for the plight of Soviet Jewry grew steadily from the early 1950s. The rise of this issue to the forefront of American Jewish consciousness, however, was driven by the broader protest movement that emerged in the mid-1960s. Its central goal was to ensure civic and religious rights for Jewish residents of the Soviet Union, with a particular emphasis on the ability to emigrate. The movement's peak impact was in the 1970s. This decade witnes…
Holocaust, Hurban, and Haredization: Pilgrimages to Eastern Europe and the Realignment of American Orthodoxy
Between Catholic Israel and the 'K'rov Yisrael: Non-Jews in Conservative Synagogues (1982-2009)
Throughout much of the twentieth century, non-Jewish family members of intermarried Jews were completely excluded from membership and active ritual life in American Conservative congregations. The unprecedented rise of intermarriage rates during the last decades of the twentieth century caused many within the movement to reconsider such policies. This article focuses on American Conservative Judaism since the early 1980s and the original approach…
Feminism and Heresy: The Construction of a Jewish Metanarrative
The connection of women with heresy and deviance has a long history within religious traditions throughout the world. The following discussion uncovers a new chapter in this convention, by highlighting the efforts of a prominent rabbinical authority to reject attempts at upgrading the public religious roles available to women. The legal or “halakhic” position that he expounds is not unto itself exceptional. What is sui generis, rather, is his con…
Religion for the Secular: The new Israeli rabbinate
This article introduces two national religious‐oriented (dati‐le’umi) organizations that have emerged within Israeli society since the 1990s. Neither has openly called for the dismantling of the state rabbinate. Nevertheless, they challenge central aspects of its hegemony over religious life. Both are independent initiatives whose main mandate is to provide the average non‐observant Israeli with an alternative address for religious guidance and s…
"Between Outreach and "Inreach: Redrawing the Lines of the American Orthodox Rabbinate
Religious Zealotry and Religious Law: Rethinking Conflict and Coexistence
"Between Outreach and "Inreach: Redrawing the Lines of the American Orthodox Rabbinate
From Lubavitch to Lakewood: The Chabadization of American Orthodoxy
Journal Article From Lubavitch to Lakewood: The Chabadization of American Orthodoxy Get access Adam S. Ferziger Adam S. Ferziger Bar-Ilan University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 33, Issue 2, May 2013, Pages 101–124, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/kjt007 Published: 02 April 2013
Feminism and Heresy: The Construction of a Jewish Metanarrative
The connection of women with heresy and deviance has a long history within religious traditions throughout the world. The following discussion uncovers a new chapter in this convention, by highlighting the efforts of a prominent rabbinical authority to reject attempts at upgrading the public religious roles available to women. The legal or “halakhic” position that he expounds is not unto itself exceptional. What is sui generis, rather, is his con…
A Synagogue Center Grows in Tel Aviv: On Glocalization, Consumerism and Religion
Alongside the ongoing dominance of Orthodox Judaism in Israel, novel liberal religious frameworks have emerged that seek to address the needs of various constituencies through innovative approaches to synagogue life. One of the most active and successful is the Reform “Beit-Daniel” in Tel- Aviv, Israel's urban epicenter. In this article, the institutional structure that emerged in Beit-Daniel is compared with another neighboring synagogue, the Co…
Female Clergy in Male Space: The Sacralization of the Orthodox Rabbinate
Sanctuaries and battlefields: Two worlds of Judaism and two orthodox feminisms
Orthodox Jewish feminism arose in North America during the 1970s. In Israel, Torah study for women grew simultaneously, but more radical changes in the ritual and leadership realms only gained prominence in the twenty-first century. This chronology suggests that regarding Orthodox feminism, the gap between Orthodox life in these centres narrowed. This conclusion, however, only accounts for a certain way that religion manifests itself in Israel. T…
Fluidity and Bifurcation: Critical Biblical Scholarship and Orthodox Judaism in Israel and North America
Contemporary Orthodox rabbis and educators have evinced an increasing degree of acceptance of critical approaches to the Hebrew Bible, including the possibility of multiple authorship. Considerable documentation for this phenomenon was collected by Marc Shapiro in an article that appeared in 2017.1 A rigorous chronicler of the theological spectrum of Orthodox Judaism, he asserted that this was striking, since “For centuries now, traditional Jewis…
Beyond Bais Ya'akov: Orthodox Outreach and the Emergence of Haredi Women as Religious Leaders
The twentieth century witnessed an array of fresh models of Jewish women's educational and religious leadership. Quite understandably, the majority of the scholarly focus has been on burgeoning egalitarian trends featured in the new roles for women within liberal Jewish denominations and among the Modern Orthodox. Yet increased appreciation for gendered perspectives within Jewish studies has also led to recognition that seemingly conventional fem…
Hungarian Separatist Orthodoxy and the Migration of Its Legacy to America: The Greenwald-Hirschenson Debate
Amid the myriad Jewish efforts to accommodate modern Europe's novel realities, Hungarian Orthodoxy stood out, according to Jacob Katz, in promoting "enhancement of the tradition...limitation of contact with the outside world...[and] exclusion of the recalcitrants." Over the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, prominent disciples of this stream spread its influence to other parts of the Jewish world. Although the Orthodox …
Religious Zealotry and Religious Law: Rethinking Conflict and Coexistence
Ashes to Outcasts: Cremation, Jewish Law, and Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Germany
When Chief Rabbi Ḥayim (Vittorio) Castiglioni of Rome (b. 1840) passed away in 1911, he was cremated as per his request and his ashes were then buried in the Jewish cemetery of his native Trieste. One local Jewish newspaper pointed out that Castiglioni's position—cremation is permitted according to Jewish law and is even preferable to traditional burial—was definitely a minority one within the Italian rabbinate. By no means, however, was he accus…
Outside the Shul: The American Soviet Jewry Movement and the Rise of Solidarity Orthodoxy, 1964-1986
Concern for the plight of Soviet Jewry grew steadily from the early 1950s. The rise of this issue to the forefront of American Jewish consciousness, however, was driven by the broader protest movement that emerged in the mid-1960s. Its central goal was to ensure civic and religious rights for Jewish residents of the Soviet Union, with a particular emphasis on the ability to emigrate. The movement's peak impact was in the 1970s. This decade witnes…
Holocaust, Hurban, and Haredization: Pilgrimages to Eastern Europe and the Realignment of American Orthodoxy
Religious Zealotry and Religious Law: Rethinking Conflict and Coexistence
"Between Outreach and "Inreach: Redrawing the Lines of the American Orthodox Rabbinate
Religion for the Secular: The new Israeli rabbinate
This article introduces two national religious‐oriented (dati‐le’umi) organizations that have emerged within Israeli society since the 1990s. Neither has openly called for the dismantling of the state rabbinate. Nevertheless, they challenge central aspects of its hegemony over religious life. Both are independent initiatives whose main mandate is to provide the average non‐observant Israeli with an alternative address for religious guidance and s…
Feminism and Heresy: The Construction of a Jewish Metanarrative
The connection of women with heresy and deviance has a long history within religious traditions throughout the world. The following discussion uncovers a new chapter in this convention, by highlighting the efforts of a prominent rabbinical authority to reject attempts at upgrading the public religious roles available to women. The legal or “halakhic” position that he expounds is not unto itself exceptional. What is sui generis, rather, is his con…
Between Catholic Israel and the 'K'rov Yisrael: Non-Jews in Conservative Synagogues (1982-2009)
Throughout much of the twentieth century, non-Jewish family members of intermarried Jews were completely excluded from membership and active ritual life in American Conservative congregations. The unprecedented rise of intermarriage rates during the last decades of the twentieth century caused many within the movement to reconsider such policies. This article focuses on American Conservative Judaism since the early 1980s and the original approach…
Holocaust, Hurban, and Haredization: Pilgrimages to Eastern Europe and the Realignment of American Orthodoxy
Ashes to Outcasts: Cremation, Jewish Law, and Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Germany
When Chief Rabbi Ḥayim (Vittorio) Castiglioni of Rome (b. 1840) passed away in 1911, he was cremated as per his request and his ashes were then buried in the Jewish cemetery of his native Trieste. One local Jewish newspaper pointed out that Castiglioni's position—cremation is permitted according to Jewish law and is even preferable to traditional burial—was definitely a minority one within the Italian rabbinate. By no means, however, was he accus…
Outside the Shul: The American Soviet Jewry Movement and the Rise of Solidarity Orthodoxy, 1964-1986
Concern for the plight of Soviet Jewry grew steadily from the early 1950s. The rise of this issue to the forefront of American Jewish consciousness, however, was driven by the broader protest movement that emerged in the mid-1960s. Its central goal was to ensure civic and religious rights for Jewish residents of the Soviet Union, with a particular emphasis on the ability to emigrate. The movement's peak impact was in the 1970s. This decade witnes…
From Lubavitch to Lakewood: The Chabadization of American Orthodoxy
Journal Article From Lubavitch to Lakewood: The Chabadization of American Orthodoxy Get access Adam S. Ferziger Adam S. Ferziger Bar-Ilan University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 33, Issue 2, May 2013, Pages 101–124, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/kjt007 Published: 02 April 2013
Daniel B. SCHWARTZ. The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image
Journal Article Daniel B. Schwartz. The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image. Get access Daniel B. Schwartz. The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image.Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 2012. Pp. xv, 270. $39.50. Adam S. Ferziger Adam S. Ferziger Bar-Ilan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 118, Issue 3, June 2013, Pag…
Beyond Bais Ya'akov: Orthodox Outreach and the Emergence of Haredi Women as Religious Leaders
The twentieth century witnessed an array of fresh models of Jewish women's educational and religious leadership. Quite understandably, the majority of the scholarly focus has been on burgeoning egalitarian trends featured in the new roles for women within liberal Jewish denominations and among the Modern Orthodox. Yet increased appreciation for gendered perspectives within Jewish studies has also led to recognition that seemingly conventional fem…
Hungarian Separatist Orthodoxy and the Migration of Its Legacy to America: The Greenwald-Hirschenson Debate
Amid the myriad Jewish efforts to accommodate modern Europe's novel realities, Hungarian Orthodoxy stood out, according to Jacob Katz, in promoting "enhancement of the tradition...limitation of contact with the outside world...[and] exclusion of the recalcitrants." Over the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, prominent disciples of this stream spread its influence to other parts of the Jewish world. Although the Orthodox …
Foreign Ashes in Sovereign Space: Cremation and the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, 1931-1990
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
State and Spirit: Sovereignty, Law, and Theology« Introduction
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
State and Spirit,« Introduction
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
A Reply to Ian Lustick’s Article: Editor’s Note: This Comment is a Response to Ian Lustick’s Article in This Issue of Contemporary Jewry v37(1)
Sanctuary for the Specialist: Gender and the Reconceptualization of the American Orthodox Rabbinate
On February 1, 2017, the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, the nation's largest Orthodox synagogue association, adopted a ruling that prohibits women from serving as clergy. The swift electronic dissemination of the ruling set off a wave of passionate protests along with vociferous expressions of support. The ruling encourages extensive female involvement in public religious leadership, a position at odds with prior statements of…
Female Clergy in Male Space: The Sacralization of the Orthodox Rabbinate
Fluidity and Bifurcation: Critical Biblical Scholarship and Orthodox Judaism in Israel and North America
Contemporary Orthodox rabbis and educators have evinced an increasing degree of acceptance of critical approaches to the Hebrew Bible, including the possibility of multiple authorship. Considerable documentation for this phenomenon was collected by Marc Shapiro in an article that appeared in 2017.1 A rigorous chronicler of the theological spectrum of Orthodox Judaism, he asserted that this was striking, since “For centuries now, traditional Jewis…
Israelization and Lived Religion: Conflicting Accounts of Contemporary Judaism
Sanctuaries and battlefields: Two worlds of Judaism and two orthodox feminisms
Orthodox Jewish feminism arose in North America during the 1970s. In Israel, Torah study for women grew simultaneously, but more radical changes in the ritual and leadership realms only gained prominence in the twenty-first century. This chronology suggests that regarding Orthodox feminism, the gap between Orthodox life in these centres narrowed. This conclusion, however, only accounts for a certain way that religion manifests itself in Israel. T…
A Synagogue Center Grows in Tel Aviv: On Glocalization, Consumerism and Religion
Alongside the ongoing dominance of Orthodox Judaism in Israel, novel liberal religious frameworks have emerged that seek to address the needs of various constituencies through innovative approaches to synagogue life. One of the most active and successful is the Reform “Beit-Daniel” in Tel- Aviv, Israel's urban epicenter. In this article, the institutional structure that emerged in Beit-Daniel is compared with another neighboring synagogue, the Co…
Ben-Gurion and American Jewish Students at the Cusp of the Sixties: Between Solidarity and Persuasion
On March 8, 1960, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion landed in Boston to deliver a major address at Brandeis University. Although the focus of the rest of his U.S. trip was diplomatic, he ended his stay with New York appearances on March 16 at the Reform movement's HUC–JIR, the Conservative-associated JTS, and the Orthodox-affiliated YU. At all four campuses, he encouraged American Jewish students to spend a year of study in Israel, a practice that …
A Daf of Our Own: Gender, Talmud Study, and Orthodox Judaism in Digital Space
The daf yomi (literally, daily page/folio) multiyear Talmud-study cycle was conceived in the early twentieth century as a means to unify Jews worldwide through a common consistent encounter with the foundational text of rabbinic Judaism. Participation has grown dramatically in recent decades. Since its inception, the overwhelming majority of partakers were Orthodox men. The year 2020 marked a watershed, when over three thousand attendees congrega…
Noah Feldman, To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People
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