Who is a Jew? A Jewish Buddhist is a person with an ethnic Jewish background who believes in the tenets of a form of Buddhism. Some practice forms of Dhyanam Buddhist meditation, …

May 27, 2020 · American JewBu tells the story of Judaism’s encounter with Buddhism in the United States, showing how it has given rise to new contemplative forms within American …

Feb 27, 2020 · In American JewBu, Sigalow reviews the history of Jewish-Buddhist encounters. The demographic, spiritual and successful minority “social location” of American Jews, she …

Nov 12, 2019 · Drawing on history and sociology, it traces the Jewish-Buddhist encounter from its nineteenth-century origins to the present, shedding immense new light on why Jews turned to …

Aug 23, 2017 · The neologism “Jubu” (alternately spelled “Jewbu”) entered common parlance as a result of Rodger Kamenetz’s 1994 book, The Jew in the Lotus. Centred on a historic …

Apr 5, 2020 · Emily Sigalow's new book 'American JewBu' details how the Eastern religion has attracted Jewish believers and influenced modern Judaism since it hit the Western …

From their respective contexts of inquiry, the authors address the phe-nomenon of Jewish Buddhists with similar questions: Why choose to be-come a Buddhist, when one is born …

her intellectual predecessors (and Kamenetz’ energy), Sigalow gives the “JewBu” phenomenon much needed academic attention. Sigalow begins her book by considering some of the key …

A Jewish Buddhist (or JewBu, a term first brought into wide circulation with the publication of The Jew in the Lotus (1994) by Rodger Kamenetz.) is a person with a Jewish background who …