conversion, law, and policymaking in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Orthodox responsa /
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David Ellenson and Daniel Gordis
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Stanford, California :
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Stanford University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
[2012]
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x, 206 pages ;
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24 cm
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Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-197) and index
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Introduction : Who is a Jew? What is a Jew? : Jewish identity, Jewish status, and the challenge of conversion -- Conversion in Jewish tradition : an introduction to the classical sources -- Trends in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century German Orthodox responses to conversion and intermarriage -- Hungarian and Central European writings on conversion and intermarriage -- Europe and the United States in the modern period -- Israel : conversion to Judaism in a Jewish society