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Author : Steven M. Cohen
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 33,29 MB
Release : 1999-11-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791443729
Explores how and why Jewish identity varies in different locations around the world and examines the implications of these variations for Jewish education.
Author : Simon N. Herman
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,18 MB
Release :
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412826877
Employing insights from a broadly conceived social psychology, Simon N. Herman examines contemporary Jewish life in its totality as a constellation of interdependent factors. He sets forth criteria for the Jewish identity, analyzes the religious and national elements that interweave in it, the constancies and variations in that identity across the years and across countries, the impact on it of the Holocaust and the establishment of the state of Israel. An illuminating chapter is devoted to the question "Who is a Jew?" In his foreword to the fkst edition of this volume, Herbert Kelman of Harvard University described it as "a pioneering contribution to the study of ethnic/national identity." The second edition incorporates additional data derived from two recent studies conducted by the author. It includes a discussion of the direction of changes in the Jewish identity in the decade since publication of the first edition. Special attention is given to the Jewish reactions to the worldwide resurgence of anti-Semitism and to the turbulent events in and around Israel. A careful analysis is undertaken of the factors in the present situation that strengthen and weaken the Jewish identity.
Author : Steven M. Cohen
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 38,81 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791499405
A collaboration of the world's leading contemporary Jewry scholars, this book explains how and why Jewish identity differs in various societies and regions and the impact of these variations on the theory and practice of Jewish education. The authors discuss differences that extend beyond such immediately obvious variations as language and dress. Included is an examination of what Jews believe they share and what sets them apart from others; what specific elements of Judaism, which conceptualizations, and which interpretations acquire special emphasis; and the extent to which, and the manner in which, Jews are to function as part of the larger societies in which they dwell.
Author : Steven Martin Cohen
Publisher :
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 11,75 MB
Release : 1998*
Category : Jews
ISBN :
It focuses on how younger adult Jews differ from their elders, on the assumption that age-related variations point to recent and future trends in Jewish identity.
Author : Sol Encel
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 32,80 MB
Release : 2003-11-30
Category : History
ISBN :
Issues of continuity, survival, and identity have generated apparently unending debates throughout the Jewish world for centuries. While similar issues arise in all Jewish communities, there are significant differences between them. This collection was designed to highlight differences as well as similarities by devoting a chapter to each of seven countries: Argentina, Australia, Canada, France, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In four communities-those in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States-debates about continuity are mainly concerned with the loss of Jewish identity through assimilation. In Argentina and South Africa, the main issue is with physical survival in the face of chaotic social conditions. In France, although the situation is less dire, the community feels threatened by the rise of xenophobic political movements and the hostility of Arab groups. Apart from external factors, all the contributors review debates over the relative importance of religion and ethnic identity, and the contrasting positions taken by religious leaders and secularists. While the study offers no clear-cut answers, it does aim to broaden the debate by exposing national differences.
Author : Ruth Shamir Popkin
Publisher :
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 42,93 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Israel and the diaspora
ISBN :
Author : Zvi Y. Gitelman
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 42,83 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9639241628
A unique collection of essays that deal with the intriguing and complex problems connected to the question of Jewish identity in the contemporary world. Concerning the problem of identity formation, this book addresses very important issues: What is the content or meaning of Jewish identity? What has replaced religion in defining the content of Jewishness? How do people in different age groups construct their Jewish identity? In most cases, the authors have combined a variety of research methods: they drew samples or relied on the sample surveys of others; used personal interviews with respondents who are especially knowledgeable about their own Jewish communities, or based their research on participant observation of particular communities or communal institutions.
Author : Jerold S. Auerbach
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 39,45 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813529172
But a covenantal Israel, which draws its Jewish identity from divine promise and the biblical narrative, refuses to surrender to modern imperatives. As the very nature of Jewish statehood has become ever more polarized, American Jewish life has been profoundly affected by this fateful Zionist contradiction.".
Author : Eliezer Ben-Rafael
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 32,18 MB
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9047409647
Are Jews today still the carriers of a single and identical collective identity and do they still constitute a single people? This two-fold question arises when one compares a Hassidi Habad from Brooklyn, a Jewish professor at a secular university in Brussels, a traditional Yemeni Jew still living in Sana’a, a Galilee kibbutznik, or a Russian Jew in Novossibirsk. Is there still today a significant relationship between these individuals who all subscribe to Judaism? The analysis shows that the Jewish identity is multiple and can be explained by considering all variants as “surface structures” of the three universal “deep structures” central to the notion of collective identity, namely, collective commitment, perceptions of the collective’s singularity, and positioning vis-à-vis “others.”
Author : Mordechai Altshuler
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 19,31 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 161168272X
Unearths the roots of a national awakening among Soviet Jews during World War II and its aftermath