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- catalog abstract "This study of Proselytes in Jewish history is intended to demonstrate that conversion to Judaism has not always been looked upon suspiciously as it has been in recent years and that, historically, converts were welcomed. There are essays discussing the contemporary outreach program and the laws of conversion, specifically relating to the israeli law of return. Many testimonies of conversion are included.".
- catalog alternative "Nicht durch Geburt allein. English.".
- catalog contributor b10488232.
- catalog contributor b10488233.
- catalog contributor b10488234.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-210)".
- catalog description "Preface / Walter Homolka. -- Acknowledgements. -- Contributors. -- Introduction: not by birth alone / Alexander M. Schindler. -- Your God is my God: conversion in the Hebrew Bible / Jonathan Magonet.-- Over land and sea for a proselyte? conversion in antiquity and the Talmudic Period / Dirk Herweg, Rachel Monika Herweg. -- From the Golden Age to the Inquisition: conversion during the Middle Ages / Esther Seidel. -- Out of the ghetto and into the open society: conversion from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century / Esther Seidel. -- Who is a Jew? conversion and Jewish identity today / Jonathan Magonet. -- Conversion and outreach in the United States / Walter Jacob. -- The Israeli situation: A struggle for Jewish Identity / Ilan Hameiri. -- The significance of motivation in the Halachah of conversion / Jonathan Wittenberg. -- Counting the commandments / John D. Rayner. -- Cases of conversion in Jewish history / Esther Seidel. -- Insiders and outsiders / Lionel Blue. -- I don't like converts / Hadassah Davis. -- Building bridges: a german of christian origin marries a Rabbi / Dorothea Magonet. -- The joy of being Jewish / Sibylle Sarah Niemoeller-Von Sell. -- A place for Yocheved / Carol Towarnicky. -- My story / Carolyn Greenfield. -- Jew by choice / Rose Coste. -- Jewish through and through / James W. Kramer. -- To a place I did not know: a journey to Judaism / Barbara-Ann Gamboa Lewis. -- My soul was standing at Sinai / Barbara Oleinick.".
- catalog description "This study of Proselytes in Jewish history is intended to demonstrate that conversion to Judaism has not always been looked upon suspiciously as it has been in recent years and that, historically, converts were welcomed. There are essays discussing the contemporary outreach program and the laws of conversion, specifically relating to the israeli law of return. Many testimonies of conversion are included.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 210 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0304338087".
- catalog identifier "0304338095".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng ger".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; Washington : Cassell,".
- catalog subject "296.7/14/09 21".
- catalog subject "BM729.P7 N5313 1997".
- catalog subject "Conversion Judaism History.".
- catalog subject "Jewish converts Biography.".
- catalog subject "Jewish converts from Christianity Biography.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Preface / Walter Homolka. -- Acknowledgements. -- Contributors. -- Introduction: not by birth alone / Alexander M. Schindler. -- Your God is my God: conversion in the Hebrew Bible / Jonathan Magonet.-- Over land and sea for a proselyte? conversion in antiquity and the Talmudic Period / Dirk Herweg, Rachel Monika Herweg. -- From the Golden Age to the Inquisition: conversion during the Middle Ages / Esther Seidel. -- Out of the ghetto and into the open society: conversion from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century / Esther Seidel. -- Who is a Jew? conversion and Jewish identity today / Jonathan Magonet. -- Conversion and outreach in the United States / Walter Jacob. -- The Israeli situation: A struggle for Jewish Identity / Ilan Hameiri. -- The significance of motivation in the Halachah of conversion / Jonathan Wittenberg. -- Counting the commandments / John D. Rayner. -- Cases of conversion in Jewish history / Esther Seidel. -- Insiders and outsiders / Lionel Blue. -- I don't like converts / Hadassah Davis. -- Building bridges: a german of christian origin marries a Rabbi / Dorothea Magonet. -- The joy of being Jewish / Sibylle Sarah Niemoeller-Von Sell. -- A place for Yocheved / Carol Towarnicky. -- My story / Carolyn Greenfield. -- Jew by choice / Rose Coste. -- Jewish through and through / James W. Kramer. -- To a place I did not know: a journey to Judaism / Barbara-Ann Gamboa Lewis. -- My soul was standing at Sinai / Barbara Oleinick.".
- catalog title "Not by birth alone : conversion to Judaism / edited by Walter Homolka, Walter Jacob, Esther Seidel.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".