Bøger af Jeremy Rosen

The biography of an Anglo Jewish rabbi and educator

A record of Carmel College, a Jewish Public School in England from 1948 to 1997 when it closed. The author is the son of the founder and was himself Heasmaster and Principal from 1971 to 1984.

While many people shy away from talking about politics or religion in polite company, author Jeremy Rosen has made religious discourse and education his life's work. An Orthodox Jewish rabbi and professor of religion at institutions around the world, Rosen sets out to make a case for the utility of religion in societies...and its ability to function as a uniting, rather than dividing, force on Earth. In accessible language and grounded in years of academic study, Rosen asks important questions about the aim of world religions and what they attempt to achieve, before offering reasons why they often fail-sometimes miserably. Rosen acknowledges religion is inherently mystical, but that does not mean its adherents can't also exercise rationality and logic. He makes the case that religion can be compatible with modern life, and it can be a vehicle for promoting tolerance and peace among people. A wonderful tool for anyone seeking to understand more about religion and religious people, Can We Talk About Religion? asks important questions and makes eloquent arguments for the value of faith in societies around the world.

What does it mean to be Jewish? Is Judaism strictly a religion, or has it become a culture? Can it have elements of both? What is the role of Judaism on the modern world's complicated stage? Jews of all backgrounds, from the orthodox to the secular, are asking these hard questions. Jeremy Rosen, a rabbi who leads a Persian Jewish community in Manhattan, is a thought leader in this constantly evolving dialogue. His new book, Commitment and Controversy: Living in Two Worlds, compiles his blog posts, essays, and papers to offer readers a comprehensive picture of his insights on modern Jewish life for the very first time. Rosen's examination of current affairs is committed to Judaism's history and tradition while pushing the envelope of dogma and doctrine. Jews of all backgrounds will find wisdom, comfort, and guidance in his eloquent yet down-to-earth words. Rosen himself understands the struggles that come with balancing modern and traditional worlds. But by embracing both commitment and controversy, he believes that we can thrive within the dynamic nature of today's international Judaism.

Rabbi Jeremy Rosen considers himself a maverick. An Orthodox Jew, Rosen is unafraid to criticize his own people and religion when he sees the need. Nor is he willing to reject aspects of culture and life beyond Judaism if it means trapping himself in a restrictive "mental ghetto." Commitment and Controversy: Living in Two Worlds is the third collection of Rosen's insightful, wide-ranging thoughts on Jewish life and its relationship with the larger world. His essays reveal a moderate who is nonetheless deeply committed to his ideals. Rosen deftly jumps from discussions on feminism and current affairs to art, history, politics, and more. While his primary goal is to celebrate Jewish life, Rosen recognizes that any culture has its limitations and failures. Firm in his belief that self-criticism is the duty of any thinking individual, he's quick to confront such failings in both Jewish leaders and Israel itself. Rosen's eclectic interests shine though in his writing. He proves being a moderate does not preclude strongly held beliefs, whether he's considering aesthetics, history, Neanderthals, or humanity's capacity for goodness. He's informative, entertaining, and always ready for civil, intelligent discourse.

Throughout human history, religious questions have too often alienated or divided people. Ask any two individuals who God is, and they'll give you two different answers. So is it even possible to discuss God, faith, and religion-topics that are so personal-in an open and reasonable manner? In his intriguingly sensible and progressive book Can We Talk About God?, author and rabbi Jeremy Rosen invites readers of all beliefs, and disbeliefs, to consider foundational spiritual questions, such as: Can we prove God exists? What do we mean when we say we believe? What is a soul? Does prayer work? Is there life after death? Providing a rational analysis of each topic, Rosen reveals how one can value both logic and mysticism without discrediting either one. His unique approach welcomes people who have dismissed God as irrational or irrelevant and invites members of other religions to consider a more gracious view of people with differing opinions. Are you ready to talk about God?

How do genres develop? In what ways do they reflect changing political and cultural trends? What do they tell us about the motivations of publishers and readers? Combining close readings and formal analysis with a sociology of literary institutions and markets, Minor Characters Have Their Day offers a compelling new approach to genre study and contemporary fiction. Focusing on the booming genre of books that transform minor characters from canonical literary texts into the protagonists of new works, Jeremy Rosen makes broader claims about the state of contemporary fiction, the strategies of the publishing industry over recent decades, and the function of literary characters.Rosen traces the recent surge in "e;minor-character elaboration"e; to the late 1960s and works such as Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea and Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. These early examples often recover the voices of marginalized individuals and groups. As the genre has exploded between the 1980s and the present, with novels about Ahab's wife, Huck Finn's father, and Mr. Dalloway, it has begun to embody the neoliberal commitments of subjective experience, individual expression, and agency. Eventually, large-scale publishers capitalized on the genre as a way to appeal to educated audiences aware of the prestige of the classics and to draw in identity-based niche markets. Rosen's conclusion ties the understudied evolution of minor-character elaboration to the theory of literary character.