Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Judaism as Religion
6. Chapter 1. Modern Judaism and the Invention of Jewish Religion 13
7. Chapter 2. Religion as History: Religious Reform and the Invention of Modern Orthodoxy 32
8. Chapter 3. Religion as Reason and the Separation of Religion from Politics 52
9. Chapter 4. Religion as Experience: The German Jewish Renaissance 73
10. Chapter 5. Jewish Religion after the Holocaust 91
11. Part II. Detaching Judaism from Religion
12. Chapter 6. The Irrelevance of Religion and the Emergence of the Jewish Individual 111
13. Chapter 7. The Transformation of Tradition and the Invention of Jewish Culture 130
14. Chapter 8. The Rejection of Jewish Religion and the Birth of Jewish Nationalism 147
15. Chapter 9. Jewish Religion in the United States 166
16. Conclusion 183
17. Notes 193
18. Index 203