Autor: Sagi Avi Sagi

To Be a Jew deals with the question of the meaning and rationale that the writer Joseph Chayim Brenner attributes to Jewish existence. Many of Brenner”s readers assumed that Brenner completely negat …

Of all Judaic rituals, that of giyyur is arguably the most radical: it turns a Gentile into a Jew – once and for all and irrevocably.  The very possibility of such a transformation is anomalous, …

In this groundbreaking study Avi Sagi outlines a broad spectrum of answers to important questions presented in Jewish literature, covering theological issues bearing on the meaning of the Torah and o …