• Black culture and black Zion : African American religious encounters with Judaism, 1790-1930, an overview / Yvonne Chireau
• African American Jews : dispelling myths, bridging the divide / Bernard J. Wolfson
• Symbolic identity formation in an African American religious sect : the Black Hebrew Israelites / Merrill Singer
• Another exodus : the Hebrew Israelites from Chicago to Dimona / Ethan Michaeli
• Proximate other : the Nation of Islam and Judaism / Nathaniel Deutsch
• Nubian Islaamic Hebrews, Ansaaru Allah Community : Jewish teachings of an African American Muslim community / Kathleen Malone O'Connor
• Remembering Nehemiah : a note on Biblical theology / Allen Dwight Callahan
• Theological affinities in the writings of Abraham Joshua Heschel and Martin Luther King, Jr. / Susannah Heschel
• This is the gateway to the Lord : the legacy of synagogue buildings for African American churches on Cincinnati's Reading Road / Karla Goldman
• "Jew" in the Haitian imagination : pre-modern anti-Judaism in the postmodern Caribbean / Elizabeth A. McAlister.

Black Zion explores the myriad ways in which African American religions have encountered Jewish traditions, beliefs, and spaces. The collection's unifying argument is that religion is the missing piece of the cultural jigsaw puzzle, that much of the recent turmoil in black-Jewish relations would be better understood, if not alleviated, if the religious roots of those relations were illuminated. Toward that end, the contributors look a number of provocative topics, including the concept of the Chosen People, the typological identification of blacks with Jews, the actual identification of blacks as Jews, the sacredness of space and symbols, the importance of scriptural interpretation in creating theology and self understanding, the dialectic of exile and redemption in communal history, and the integration of ethnicity and religion in constructing group identity. Ranging from the Nation of Islam to the Hebrew Israelites and from Abraham Joshua Heschel to Martin Luther King, Jr., the book sheds light on a little examined but vitally important dimension of black-Jewish relations in America: religion.
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This book examines how American Jews from colonial times to the present have contended with living in a fundamentally Christian state. Separation of church and state has become a veritable creed in the American Jewish community, and the focus of the work is the way in which Jewish actions have contributed to the development of this separation in the US.
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The history of Judaising movements has been largely ignored by historians of religion. This volume analyzes the interplay between colonialism, a Judaism not traditionally viewed as proselytising but which at certain points was struggling to heed the Prophets and become a light unto the Gentiles' and the attraction for many different peoples of the rooted historicity of Judaism and by the symbolic appropriation of Jewish suffering. This book will look at the role of colonialism in the development of Judaising movements throughout the world, including New Zealand, Japan, India, Burma and Africa. Particular attention will be paid to the Lemba tribe of Southern Africa. A remarkable parallel movement in 1930s Southern Italy will also be dealt with. The history of the converts of San Nicandro is seen in the context of currents of Jewish universalism, messianism and Zionism. Gender issues are also discussed here as the converted women assumed powers they had not hitherto enjoyed.
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• 1. Bd. Allgemeiner Teil.

• Judentum und Christentum / Rabbiner Dr. Dienemann
• Mohammed und das Judentum / Louis-Germain Lévy
• Buddhismus und Judentum / Rabbiner Dr. Steinthal.

• Judentum und Christentum / Rabbiner Dr. Dienemann
• Mohammed und das Judentum / Louis-Germain Lévy
• Buddhismus und Judentum / Rabbiner Dr. Steinthal.

Hebrew Texts in Jewish, Christian and Muslim Surroundings offers a new perspective on Judaism, Christianity and Islam as religions of the book. Their problematic relation seems to indicate that there is more that divides than unites these religions. The present volume will show that there is an intricate web of relations between the texts of these three religious traditions. On many levels readings and interpretations intermingle and influence each other. Studying the multifaceted history of the way Hebrew texts were read and interpreted in so many different contexts may contribute to a better understanding of the complicated relation between Jews, Christians and Muslims. These studies are dedicated to Dineke Houtman honouring her work as professor of Jewish-Christian relations.
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• Foreword, by Prince Hassan bin Tallal vii Preface xiii
• 1 Interfaith Dialogue - A Personal Introduction
• 1 From Theory to Practice
• 2 The Challenge to Judaism of Interfaith Dialogue
• 11
• 3 Chances and Limits of Multicultural Society
• 23
• 4 Reflections on the Jewish Immigrant Experience
• 34
• 5 Controversy for the Sake of Heaven
• 48
• 6 Between Controversy and Conflict
• 62
• 7 The Ten Commandments and the Quest for Universal Values
• 73
• 8 Risk-taking in Religious Dialogue
• 90
• 9 Teaching the Teachers
• 107 Addressing Christians
• 10 Jewish Perceptions of Jesus
• 122
• 11 When I See What Christians Make of the 'Hebrew' Bible
• 134 Addressing Muslims
• 12 Jewish Perceptions of Muhammad
• 147
• 13 The Challenges Facing the Muslim Community
• 161 Addressing Jews
• 14 Towards a Jewish-Muslim Dialogue
• 169 Interfaith Dialogue and the Middle East: A Documentation
• 15 Haman's New Victims
• 179
• 16 An Evening of Mourning for the Victims of the Massacre at the Hebron Mosque
• 183
• 17 Prayers for Peace in the Middle East
• 188
• 18 From a Narrow Place: A New Year Sermon
• 192
• 19 The Journey to Dialogue
• 199 Afterword, by Karen Armstrong
• 204
• Appendix I: What is JCM?
• 208
• Appendix II: A Prayer for Interfaith Meetings
• 214 Notes on the Text
• 215 References
• 221 Index 223.
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Suicide killings - both in America and Israel - have focused world attention on international terrorism. The involvement of people claiming that their Islamic faith justified murderous suicide action has intensified the demonization of Islam in the West, and in turn highlighted the need to understand and relate to Muslims in all their diversity. Rabbi Jonathan Magonet has long been engaged in interfaith dialogue, and in this book he explores the issues that arise with such an encounter and challenges the Jewish community to broaden its commitment to interfaith dialogue in a complex and rapidly changing world.
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