LEADER 05237oam 22006134a 450 001 9910460322603321 005 20240418111910.0 010 $a1-61249-426-9 035 $a(CKB)3710000000492734 035 $a(EBL)4009531 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001568728 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16221601 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001568728 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)12409049 035 $a(PQKB)11021052 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4009531 035 $a(OCoLC)925585870 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse46374 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/90430 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000492734 100 $a20150413h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aWealth and Poverty in Jewish Tradition$fedited by Leonard J. Greenspoon 205 $a1st ed. 210 $cPurdue University Press$d2015 215 $a1 online resource (0 p.) 225 0 $aStudies in Jewish civilization ;$v26 300 $a"Twenty-Sixth Annual Klutznick-Harris Symposium, October 27 and October 28, 2013, in Omaha, Nebraska." 311 $a1-55753-722-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editor's Introduction -- Contributors -- Wealth in the World of the Sages: Why Were Korach and Moses Rich People? -- Care for the Poor and the Origins of Charity in Early Rabbinic Literature -- The Violence of Poverty -- Wealth and Rabbinic Self-Fashioning in Late Antiquity -- Justice and Righteousness: Jewish and Christian Approaches to Charity and Poor Law in the High Middle Ages -- 1Q/4QInstruction: Training for a Money Changer? -- Peddlers, the Great Jewish Migration, and the Riddle of Economic Success -- The Legacy of the Kelm School of Musar on Questions of Work, Wealth, and Poverty -- Conspicuous Charity and Jewish Unity: The Jewish Loterie in Nineteenth Century Paris -- Getting Drunk, Dancing, and Beating Each Other Up: The Images of the Gentile Poor and Narratives of Jewish Difference among the Yiddish Intelligentsia, 1881-1914 -- Empty Hearts and Full Wallets: Poverty and Wealth in American Jewish Films, 1921-1932 -- Crossing Over: Class, Race, and Ethnicity in the Baltimore Films of Barry Levinson -- The Cost of Living Jewishly: A Matter of Money or Values?. 330 $aEconomic inequity is an issue of worldwide concern in the twenty-first century. Although these issues have not troubled all people at all times, they are nonetheless not new. Thus, it is not surprising that Judaism has developed many perspectives, theoretical and practical, to explain and ameliorate the circumstances that produce serious economic disparity. This volume offers an accessible collection of articles that deal comprehensively with this phenomenon from a variety of approaches and perspectives. Within this framework, the fourteen authors who contributed to Wealth and Poverty in Jewish Tradition bring a formidable array of experience and insight to uncover interconnected threads of conversation and activities that characterize Jewish thought and action. Among the questions raised, for which there are frequently multiple responses: Is the giving of tzedakah (generally, although imprecisely, translated as ?charity?) a command or an impulse? Does the Jewish tradition give priority to the donor or to the recipient? To what degree is charity a communal responsibility? Is there something inherently ennobling or, conversely, debasing about being poor? How have basic concepts about wealth and poverty evolved from biblical through rabbinic and medieval sources until the modern period? What are some specific historical events that demonstrate either marked success or bitter failure? And finally, are there some relevant concepts and practices that are distinctively, if not uniquely, Jewish? It is a singular strength of this collection that appropriate attention is given, in a style that is both accessible and authoritative, to the vast and multiform conversations that are recorded in the Talmud and other foundational documents of rabbinic Judaism. Moreover, perceptive analysis is not limited to the past, but also helps us to comprehend circumstances among today?s Jews. It is equally valuable that these authors are attuned to the differences between aspirations and the realities in which actual people have lived. 410 0$aStudies in jewish civilization 606 $aJudaism and social problems 606 $aPoverty$xReligious aspects$xJudaism$vCongresses 606 $aWealth$xReligious aspects$xJudaism$vCongresses 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aSocial groups: religious groups & communities 615 0$aJudaism and social problems. 615 0$aPoverty$xReligious aspects$xJudaism 615 0$aWealth$xReligious aspects$xJudaism 676 $a296.3/68 700 $aGreenspoon$b Leonard$4edt$01453216 702 $aGreenspoon$b Leonard J$g(Leonard Jay), 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460322603321 996 $aWealth and Poverty in Jewish Tradition$94153585 997 $aUNINA