How do American Jews identify as both Jewish and American? American Post-Judaism argues that Zionism and the Holocaust, two anchors of contemporary American Jewish identity, will no longer be centers of identity formation for future generations of American Jews. Shaul Magid articulates a new, post-ethnic American Jewishness. He discusses pragmatism and spirituality, monotheism and post-monotheism, Jesus, Jewish law, sainthood and self-realization, and the meaning of the Holocaust for those who have never known survivors. Magid presents Jewish Renewal as a movement that takes this radical cultural transition seriously in its strivings for a new era in Jewish thought and practice.

Shaul Magid is Jay and Jeannie Schottenstein Professor of Jewish Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. He is author of From Metaphysics to Midrash (IUP, 2008).

ForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Be the Jew You Make: Jews, Jewishness, and Judaism inPostethnic America2. Ethnicity, America, and the Future of the Jews: Felix Adler,Mordecai Kaplan, and Zalman Schachter-Shalomi3. Pragmatism and Piety: The AmericanSpiritual and Philosophical Roots of Jewish Renewal4. Postmonotheism, Renewal, and a New AmericanJudaism5. Hasidism, Mithnagdism, and Contemporary AmericanJudaism: Talmudism, (Neo) Kabbala, and (Post) Halakha6. From the Historical Jesus to a New Jewish Christology:Rethinking Jesus in Contemporary American Judaism7. Sainthood, Selfhood, and the Ba'al Teshuva: ArtScroll's AmericanHero and Jewish Renewal's Functional Saint8. Rethinking the Holocaust after Post-HolocaustTheology: Uniqueness, Exceptionalism, and the Renewal of AmericanJudaismEpilogue. Shlomo Carlebach: An Itinerant Preacher for aPost-Judaism AgeConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex