To Be a Jew Today : A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People - Noah Feldman

To Be a Jew Today

A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People

By: Noah Feldman

Paperback | 4 March 2025

At a Glance

Paperback


$40.25

or 4 interest-free payments of $10.06 with

 or 

Available: 4th March 2025

Preorder. Will ship when available.

A New York Times Bestseller

A leading public intellectual's timely reckoning with how Jews can and should make sense of their tradition and each other.

What does it mean to be a Jew? At a time of worldwide crisis, venerable answers to this question have become unsettled. In To Be a Jew Today, the legal scholar and columnist Noah Feldman draws on a lifelong engagement with his religion to offer a wide-ranging interpretation of Judaism in its current varieties. How do Jews today understand their relationship to God, to Israel, and to each other--and live their lives accordingly?

Writing sympathetically but incisively about diverse outlooks, Feldman clarifies what's at stake in the choice of how to be a Jew, and discusses the shared "theology of struggle" that Jews engage in as they wrestle with who God is, what God wants, or whether God exists. He shows how the founding of Israel has transformed Judaism itself over the last century--and explores the ongoing consequences of that transformation for all Jews, who find the meaning of their Jewishness and their views about Israel intertwined, no matter what those views are. And he examines the analogies between being Jewish and belonging to a large, messy family--a family that often makes its members crazy, but a family all the same. Written with learning, empathy and clarity, To Be a Jew Today is a critical resource for readers of all faiths.

More in Judaism

The Book of Enoch - Enoch

$27.00

The Power of Ideas : Words of Faith and Wisdom - Jonathan Sacks
The Hare with the Amber Eyes : A Hidden Inheritance - Edmund de Waal
My Life as a Jew - Michael Gawenda

RRP $35.00

$31.75

A Guide to the Zohar : The Zohar: Pritzker Edition - Arthur Green
Have A Little Faith - Mitch Albom

RRP $22.99

$21.90

The Zohar : Pritzker Edition, Volume Nine - Daniel C. Matt

RRP $158.50

$127.75

19%
OFF
A Gate to Heaven : Essenes, Qumran: Origins and Heirs - Etienne Nodet
Jews in Suits : Men's Dress in Vienna, 1890-1938 - Jonathan C. Kaplan-Wajselbaum

RRP $59.99

$49.25

18%
OFF
Quiet Voices : Silence in the Hebrew Bible - Victor H. Matthews

RRP $85.99

$60.75

29%
OFF