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A multidisciplinary approach to the study of veganism, vegetarianism, and meat avoidance among Jews, both historical and contemporary.
In 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.
Contents
Illustrations
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
Index
