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Americ an Post-Judaism
Religion in North America
Catherine L. Albanese and Stephen J. Stein, editors
Shaul Magid
Americ an
Post-Judaism
Identity and Renewal
in a Postethnic Society
iupress.indiana.edu
No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means,
electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information
storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The
Association of American University Presses’ Resolution on Permissions constitutes
the only exception to this prohibition.
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American
National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library
Materials, ANSI Z39.48–1992.
1 2 3 4 5 18 17 16 15 14 13
publication of this book
is supported by a grant from
Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford
For Yehuda, Chisda, Miriam, and Kinneret
It is your world now. Please try to leave it better than you found it.
If Judaism is terminable, Jewishness is interminable. It can survive
Judaism.
—Jacques Derrida, Archive Fever, 72
Foreword xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
1. Be the Jew You Make: Jews, Jewishness, and Judaism in
Postethnic America 16
2. Ethnicity, America, and the Future of the Jews: Felix Adler,
Mordecai Kaplan, and Zalman Schachter-Shalomi 35
3. Pragmatism and Piety: The American Spiritual and Philosophical
Roots of Jewish Renewal 57
4. Postmonotheism, Renewal, and a New American Judaism 74
5. Hasidism, Mithnagdism, and Contemporary American Judaism:
Talmudism, (Neo) Kabbala, and (Post) Halakha 111
6. From the Historical Jesus to a New Jewish Christology:
Rethinking Jesus in Contemporary American Judaism 133
7. Sainthood, Selfhood, and the Ba’al Teshuva: ArtScroll’s American
Hero and Jewish Renewal’s Functional Saint 157
8. Rethinking the Holocaust after Post-Holocaust Theology:
Uniqueness, Exceptionalism, and the Renewal of American
Judaism 186
Epilogue. Shlomo Carlebach: An Itinerant Preacher for a
Post-Judaism Age 233
Conclusion 240
Notes 245
Bibliography 337
Index 371
Foreword
xii Foreword
Acknowledgments
This book was written over a period of about six years. There were many people
along the way who helped, some of whom I will regrettably forget to mention.
To begin, I want to thank Jo Ellen Kaiser, who first asked me to write an essay
on Jewish Renewal for Tikkun magazine in 2006. After she received my overly
long submission, she suggested I publish it in three installments. Those essays
were the germ cell of this project and I thank her and Michael Lerner for their
support. Kathryn Lofton was instrumental in this project from the beginning,
as she really introduced me to the field of American religion, gave me numerous
lists of books to read, and made me believe I could make the transition from a
scholar of Jewish mysticism to a part-time Americanist.
Many people generously read versions of chapters, sometimes numerous times,
and offered helpful advice and comments. They include Sydney Anderson, Yaa-
kov Ariel, Michael Berenbaum, Nathaniel Berman, Zachary Braiterman, Jessica
Carr, Aryeh Cohen, Shai Held, Susannah Heschel, Zvi Ish-Shalom, Martin Ka-
vka, Barbara Krawcowicz, Nancy Levene, Yehudah Mirsky, Michael Morgan,
Tomer Persico, Devorah Shubowitz, and Elliot Wolfson. Thanks to Sarah Im-
hoff, who read numerous drafts of numerous chapters and offered sage advice.
Joseph (Yossi) Turner has been a conversation partner on these topics for many
years, and his friendship and support in this project was invaluable. Lila Cor-
win Berman carefully read the manuscript in its entirely and saw the book for
what it was in ways that I did not. Catherine Albanese was of enormous help in
terms of the American religious context of the book. She saved me from some
embarrassing errors.
I gave numerous academic talks on various chapters of this book over the past
few years. I want to thank David Myers, Carol Bakhos, Don Seeman, Nathaniel
Deutsch, Nora Rubel, Boaz Huss, and Sarah Pessin, all of whom generously of-
fered me the opportunity to present my work. Thanks to Susan Berrin, who pub-
lished a shorter version of chapter 1 on post-ethnicity in SHMA; Zev Garber
for publishing a version of the chapter on the Jewish Jesus in The Jewish Jesus:
Revelation, Reflection, Reclamation; Steven T. Katz for publishing an abbrevi-
ated version of the chapter on sainthood and selfhood in Modern Judaism; and,
Kocku von Stuckrad and Boaz Huss for publishing a version of the chapter on
pragmatism and piety in Kabbalah and Modernity. Thanks to Jonathan Sarna
and Steven Cohen for their comments on questions of American Judaism and
postethnicity. We may see things differently, but you both have been gracious
and kind in your critiques.
I want to thank Jeffrey Veidlinger and the Borns Jewish Studies Program and
David Brakke and David Haberman and the Department of Religious Studies
at Indiana University. Both have been truly wonderful intellectual homes and
places of support and encouragement. Thanks to all my friends at the Fire Island
Synagogue for your continued patience and support. Thanks to Hila Ratzabi
for an invaluable job copyediting the manuscript; Nancy Zibman for the index;
and Janet Rabinowitch, Dee Mortensen, Sarah Jacobi, and Angela Burton for
all their hard work at Indiana University Press and for believing in this project
from the very beginning and seeing it to publication. Thanks to Steve Stein and
Catherine Albanese, editors of the IU Press series Religion in North America for
including this unorthodox book on American Judaism. Thanks to R. Zalman
Schachter-Shalomi for all his continued help and support and for all the gifts he
gave my generation. Thanks to Shlomo Carlebach for providing the soundtrack
for this entire project and to Elliot Wolfson for permission to use his painting
Entanglements for the cover. Thanks to Jon, Josh, Barbara, and Yehuda for the
music, and to Zeelion, carrier of new light and words. My sons Yehuda and
Chisda have listened to this book for years. While their intellectual interests lie
elsewhere, they listened, sometimes reluctantly, and often had incisive things
to say.
Chapter 3, “Pragmatism and Piety: The American Spiritual and Philosophical
Roots of Jewish Renewal” appeared in Kabbalah and Modernity, Boaz Huss,
Marco Pasi, and Kocku von Stuckrad, eds. (Brill, 2010), and is reprinted with
the permission from the press. Chapter 5, “Hasidism, Mithnagdism, and Con-
temporary American Judaism,” appeared in The Cambridge History of Jewish
Philosophy, Martin Kavka and David Novak, eds. (Cambridge University Press,
2012, and is reprinted with the permission from the press. An abbreviated ver-
sion of chapter 6, “From the Historical Jesus to a New Christology: Rethink-
ing Jesus in Contemporary American Judaism,” appeared as “The New Jewish
Reclamation of Jesus in Late Twentieth-Century America: Re-Aligning and Re-
Thinking Jesus the Jew,” in The Jewish Jesus: Revelation, Reflection, Reclamation,
Zev Garber,ed. (Purdue University Press, 2011), and is reprinted with permis-
sion from the press.
xiv Acknowledgments
Americ an Post-Judaism
Introduction
2 American Post-Judaism
The borderlines, the unchartered marginal space, the “post” state of contem-
porary Judaism in America have emerged in large part due to two related phe-
nomena: the collapsing structures of ethnicity and the culmination of a period
marked by a Jewish spiritual renaissance that dominated American Judaism
in the 1970s and 1980s. That period saw a resurgence of Orthodoxy, the Ba’al
Teshuva (newly religious/born-again) movement, and a renewed embrace of
traditional practice among non-Orthodox American Jews that included the rise
of egalitarian traditionalism and the Havurah movement that was the precur-
sor to Jewish Renewal.9
Today we are arguably living on the other side of that renaissance, in a place
“between,” no longer in the paradigm of a previous generation but not yet aware,
and surely not familiar, with the new territory we already inhabit. Here is where
we encounter Bhabha’s notion of “post.” Much contemporary Jewish thinking
continues to function, sometimes quite successfully, in an old paradigm—be it
traditional or progressive—creatively rethinking past rubrics to answer the chal-
lenges of the present situation. But, as Bhabha suggests, “newness” does not exist
on the continuum of past and present. Rather, “it renews the past, refiguring it as
a contingent ‘in-between’ space that innovates and interrupts the performance
of the present.”10 My claim is that we are living in that rupture that produces
the “in between.” I do not propose that the experience of being “in between” is
one that must be rejected or reformed, but rather, I attempt to understand the
nature of this grey zone and explore ways to live in it, and from it.
Bhabha’s reading of the post-colonial world is skeptical that our marginal
position can be understood by old models. “These ‘in-between’ spaces provide
the terrain for elaborating strategies of selfhood—singular and communal—that
initiate new signs of identity, and innovative sites of collaboration, and contesta-
tion, in the act of defining the idea of society itself.”11 The age of Jewish assimila-
tion and acculturation is over and has largely been successful. Jews are arguably
one of the most integrated minorities in America.12 And the age of romantici-
zation and nostalgia in the form of Jewish rediscovery has run its course (al-
though its after-effects will continue to be felt for some time). As is sometimes
the case, our social reality has advanced beyond our capacity to conceptualize
a response to it that will simultaneously embrace and engage—and not resist
or reject—the “new.” In this post-Judaism era, the past requires a combination
of translation and abandonment, or translation as abandonment.
The term “post-Judaism” has been used in contemporary Israel to describe a
spiritual renaissance among non-affiliated Jewish Israelis who are adapting Jew-
ish motifs and rituals outside any formal institutional or spiritual framework. It
is also sometimes used to describe a humanistic notion of Judaism not limited
to Jews.13 This includes large New Age gatherings in the Galilee and the Negev
corresponding to Jewish festivals modeled after the Rainbow Gathering in the
United States. An American articulation of post-Judaism would be different in
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