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OverviewIn recent decades, as more Jews have adopted plant-based lifestyles, Jewish vegan and vegetarian movements have become increasingly prominent. This book explores the intellectual, religious, and historical roots of veganism and vegetarianism among Jews and presents compelling new directions in Jewish thought, ethics, and foodways. The contributors, including scholars, rabbis, and activists, explore how Judaism has inspired Jews to eschew animal products and how such choices, even when not directly inspired by Judaism, have enriched and helped define Jewishness. Individually, and as a collection, the chapters in this book provide an opportunity to meditate on what may make veganism and vegetarianism particularly Jewish, as well as the potential distinctiveness of Jewish veganism and vegetarianism. The authors also examine the connections between Jewish veganism and vegetarianism and other movements, while calling attention to divisions among Jewish vegans and vegetarians, to the specific challenges of fusing Jewishness and a plant-based lifestyle, and to the resistance Jewish vegans and vegetarians can face from parts of the Jewish community. The book's various perspectives represent the cultural, theological, and ideological diversity among Jews invested in such conversations and introduce prominent debates within their movements. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jacob Ari Labendz , Shmuly YanklowitzPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781438473604ISBN 10: 1438473605 Pages: 374 Publication Date: 02 January 2020 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsIllustrations Introduction: Considering Jewish Veganism and Vegetarianism Jacob Ari Labendz and Shmuly Yanklowitz Part I. Studies 1. The Slipperiness of Animal Suffering: Revisiting the Talmud’s Classic Treatment Beth A. Berkowitz 2. Vegetarianism as Jewish Culture and Politics in Interwar Europe Nick Underwood 3. “I am a Vegetarian”: The Vegetarianism of Melech Ravitch Irad Ben Isaak 4. Farm Animal Welfare in Jewish Art and Literature Hadas Marcus 5. Vegetarianism and Veganism among Jewish Punks Michael Croland 6. Opening the Tent: Jewish Veganism as an Expression of an Ecological Form of Judaism Adrienne Krone 7. A Linguistic Appraisal: Jewish Perceptions of Animal Suffering Victoria Greenstone and Shlomi Shmuel Part II. New Directions 8. Veganism and Covenantalism: Contrasting and Overlapping Moralities David Mevorach Seidenberg 9. Musar and Jewish Veganism Geoffrey D. Claussen 10. The Vegetarian Teachings of Rav Kook Richard H. Schwartz and David Sears 11. Relevant and Irrelevant Distinctions: Speciesism, Judaism, and Veganism Alan D. Krinsky 12. A Morally Generative Tension: Conflicting Jewish Commitments to Humans and Animals Shmuly Yanklowitz 13. Linking Judaism and Veganism in Darkness and in Light Sherry F. Colb 14. Jewish Veganism as an Embodied Practice: A Vegan Agenda for Cultural Jews Jacob Ari Labendz Report: Jewish Vegan and Vegetarian Movements in North America Sarah Chandler and Jeffrey Cohan Afterword Aaron S. Gross Contributors IndexReviewsWhether looking at the pages of the Talmud, vegetarian poems written in Yiddish, lyrics written by Jewish punk rockers, or into a pot of vegan matzo ball soup, this book explores the many ways in which Jews have questioned the ethics of eating animals. Labendz and Yanklowitz achieve their stated goal of exploring 'what distinguishes Jewish veganism and vegetarianism as Jewish.' You do not have to be a vegetarian or a vegan (or Jewish!) in order to learn from, and indeed grapple with, the many questions, dilemmas, and readings that the contributors raise. - Jordan D. Rosenblum, author of The Jewish Dietary Laws in the Ancient World Jewish Veganism and Vegetarianism offers theological, pragmatic, ethical, environmental, and other ways to view non-meat eating as a viable, healthy, and holy Judaic strategy to consume the world. Anyone who eats or thinks about eating should take this volume seriously. - Rabbi Jonathan K. Crane, author of Eating Ethically: Religion and Science for a Better Diet From the Talmud's ambivalence about human and animal suffering to the challenges of making a vegan matzo ball, Jewish Veganism and Vegetarianism offers surprising views of the many ways Jewish practice, Jewish culture, and individual Jews acted and reacted in their encounters with a vegetable diet. This important and overdue book does much to introduce a long-neglected chapter of Jewish culinary practice and to inspire and instruct future research. - Eve Jochnowitz, cotranslator of Fania Lewando's The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook: Garden-Fresh Recipes Rediscovered and Adapted for Today's Kitchen Author InformationJacob Ari Labendz is Director of the Center for Judaic and Holocaust Studies and Clayman Assistant Professor of Judaic and Holocaust Studies at Youngstown State University. He is the editor of Jewish Property After 1945: Cultures and Economies of Ownership, Loss, Recovery, and Transfer. Shmuly Yanklowitz is President and Dean at Valley Beit Midrash, Founder and President of Uri L'Tzedek, Founder and CEO of the Shamayim V'Aretz Institute, and Founder and President of YATOM: The Jewish Foster and Adoption Network. He is the author of many books, including Pirkei Avot: A Social Justice Commentary, Postmodern Jewish Ethics: Emerging Social Justice Paradigms, and The Jewish Vegan. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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