Menachem Friedman

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Menachem Friedman is an Israeli anthropologist and sociologist at Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan. He explores the field of religion and the confrontations between religious and secular Judaism in modern history. He also studies the modern process of Halachic decision making.

[edit] Bibliography

• Society and Religion: The Non-Zionist Orthodoxy in Eretz-Israel, 1918-1936. Jerusalem, Yad Ben-Zvi, 1st edition, 1978; 2nd edition, 1982. (Hebrew).
• Growth and Segregation - The Ultra-Orthodox Community of Jerusalem, (with J. Shilhav), The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, Jerusalem 1986 (Hebrew).
• The Haredi Ultra-Orthodox Society: Sources Trends and Processes, The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, Jerusalem 1991 (Hebrew).
• Society in a Crisis of Legitimization - The Ashkenazi Old Yishuv – 1900-1917, Mosad Byalik & The Israeli Academy of Science 2001, (Hebrew).
• Haredi Violence in Contemporary Israeli Society, P. Medding (ed.), Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Vol. 18, 2002, pp. 186-197.
• Haredim and Palestinians in Jerusalem, M.J. Bereger and O. Ahimeir (eds.), Jerusalem, a City and its Future, Syracuse University Press, 2002, pp. 235-254.

[edit] External links

• Menachem Friedman's website