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Discusses how Chasidism's stance on sexuality expressed in an extreme way the dualism of the rabbinic tradition as a whole and the ambivalence of the mystical tradition in particular. Radicalization of some of the ascetic tendencies in earlier traditions; Chasidic movement's introduction of some of the most extreme anti-erotic values ever to appear in any Jewish texts.

Focuses on the Jewish identity in the U.S. Association between universalism and Jewish particularism; Cultivation of Jewish identity; Definitions of Jewish culture; Consequences of substituting Jewish culture for Judaism; Interaction between culture and identity; Secular revolution in Jewish life; Zionist ideology of Jewish identity; Distinction between Jewish culture and Judaism.