Behind the Purim Mask: The Symbolic Representation of the Rituals and Customs of Purim

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. IV. Developments in Philosophy, Ideology, and Religious Practice
4. Moses Mendelssohn’s Humanism 3
5. The Roots of Satmar Anti-Zionism: Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum, Zionism, and Hungarian Ultra-Orthodoxy 21
6. The Late Zionism of Nathan Birnbaum: The Herzl Controversy Reconsidered 37
7. Trade Unions, Strikes, and the Renewal of Halakhic Labor Law: Ideologies in the Rulings of Rabbis Kook, Uziel, and Feinstein 82
8. Benjamin Brown 119
9. Behind the Purim Mask: The Symbolic Representation of the Rituals and Customs of Purim 135
10. Back to the Yeshiva: The Social Dynamics of an Orthodox Sabbath Morning Service 206
11. Historical Time and Liminal Time: A Chapter in Rabbinic Historiosophy 219
12. Index 247