Encyclopedia of Modern Jewish Culture

This smartly produced and compact two‐volume work is the successor to The Blackwell Companion to Jewish Culture (Abrahamson, 1989). With eight contributing editors and 251 contributors from around the world, it is a well thought‐out and competently executed work of scholarship. The Editor's Preface provides an excellent analytical overview in which she tackles the three title keywords: “modern”, “Jewish” and “culture”. By modern is meant, broadly, post‐European Enlightenment, and the modern conflicts that resulted from exposure to rationalism and liberalism. “Jewish” does not mean just people who were born into the Jewish faith, but those who have had...