Not By Birth Alone Conversion to Judaism

includes index and biblioraphy

Part One: The History 1. Your God Is My God: Conversion in the Hebrew Bible 11 RABBI JONATHAN MAGONET 2. Over Land and Sea for a Proselyte? Conversion in Antiquity and the Talmudic Period 15 DIRK HERWEG, RACHEL MONIKA HERWEG 3. From the Golden Age to the Inquisition: Conversion During the Middle Ages 23 ESTHER SEIDEL 4. Out of the Ghetto and into the Open Society: Conversion from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century 36 ESTHER SEIDEL Part Two: Current Attitudes 5. Who Is a Jew? Conversion and Jewish Identity Today RABBI JONATHAN MAGONET 6. Conversion and Outreach in the United States RABBI WALTER JACOB 7. The Israeli Situation: A Struggle for Jewish Identity ILAN HAMEIRI 8. The Significance of Motivation in the Halachah of Conversion RABBI JONATHAN WITTENBERG 9. Counting the Commandments RABBI JOHN D. RAYNER Part Three: Converts and Their Stories 10. Cases of Conversion in Jewish History 103 ESTHER SEIDEL 11. Insiders and Outsiders 129 RABBI LIONEL BLUE 12. I Don`t Like Converts 137 RABBI HAOASSAH DAVIS 13. Building Bridges: A German of Christian Origin Marries a Rabbi 143 DOROTHEA MAGONET 14. The Joy of Being Jewish 152 SIBYLLE SARAH NIEMOELLER-VON SELL 15. APIaceforYocheved 163 CAROL TOWARNICKY 16. My Story 172 CAROLYN GREENFIELD 17. Jew by Choice 176 ROSE COSTE 18. Jewish Through and Through 188 JAMES W. KRAMER 19. To a Place I Did Not Know: A Journey to Judaism 191 BARBARA-ANN GAMBOA LEWIS 20. My Soul Was Standing at Sinai 198 BARBARA OLEINICK