Throughout Jewish history, revolutionary events and subversive ideas have burst forth, repeatedly transforming Jewish experience. Re-forming Judaism seeks to explore
these ideas—and the individuals behind them—by delving into historical disruptions that led to lasting change in Jewish thought. A distinguished array of scholars take us
on a journey from the disruptive prophets of ancient times, through rational, mystical, and extremist medievalists, to the impact of Haskalah and early Reform thought in
modernity. Contemporary innovations such as changes in liturgy and music, feminism, and post-Holocaust theology are included, as are insights into Sephardic and North
African experiences. By showing how Judaism forms—then re-forms, and re-forms again—the contributors demonstrate that tensions between continuity and change
have always been part of Jewish life, helping us to both understand the past and contemplate the future.

Rabbi Stanley M. Davids is Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Emanu-El of Greater Atlanta. He is the coeditor of The Fragile Dialogue: New Voices of Liberal Zionism
and Deepening the Dialogue: Jewish-Americans and Israelis Envision the Jewish-Democratic State, both published by CCAR Press.

Leah Hochman, PhD, is Director of the Louchheim School for Judaic Studies at the University of Southern California and Associate Professor of Jewish Thought at
Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion. She is the author of The Ugliness of Moses Mendelssohn: Aesthetics, Religion, and Morality in the Eighteenth
Century.