Toleration within Judaism

Martin Goodman is Professor of Jewish Studies in the University of Oxford, a Fellow of Wolfson College, and a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Among his books on Jewish history are Rome and Jerusalem (2007) and Judaism in the Roman World: Collected Essays (2007). Joseph E. David is Senior Lecturer in Law and Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Sapir Academic College. He has been a visiting professor at Rutgers, the University of Pennsylvania, and New York University, and a faculty member at the University of Oxford. He is the author of The Family and the Political: On Belonging and Responsibility in a Liberal Society (2012) and Between Logos and Nomos: Law and Theology in Medieval Jewish Thought (forthcoming). Corinna R. Kaiser has taught at the universities of Dusseldorf, Giessen, and Rutgers, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the University of Oxford. She recently returned to Dusseldorf as a lecturer. She specializes in the cultural, ritual, and media history of the Jews in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Simon Levis Sullam is Assistant Professor of Modern History at Ca' Foscari, University of Venice. He has held visiting positions at Berkeley, at the European University Institute, and at the University of Oxford. His publications on Jewish history include a modern history of the Jews of Venice (Una Comunita Immaginata, 2001) and (as co-editor) the multi-volume Storia della Shoah (2006-10).

Preface Note on Transliteration 1 Introduction: The Study of Toleration 2 Toleration within Judaism from the Second Temple to the Present 3 Sadduccees and Pharisees in the Temple Martin Goodman 4 The Houses of Hillel and Shammai in the Mishnah Martin Goodman 5 The Notion of Tolerable Error from the Mishnah to Maimonides Joseph E. David 6 Talmudic Controversies in Post-Talmudic Eyes Joseph E. David 7 Toleration in the Ghetto of Venice: Evidence from Leon Modena's Historia de' riti Hebraici Simon Levis Sullam 8 Prescribing Toleration in the Paris Sanhedrin (1806 - 1807) Simon Levis Sullam 9 Islets of Toleration among the Jews of Curacao Corinna R. Kaiser 10 Sitting on Fences: The Toleration of Compromise and Mixed Seating in Orthodox Synagogues in the USA Corinna R. Kaiser 11 Conclusion: Causes of Toleration Bibliography Index