New Jewish Identities

Author : Zvi Y. Gitelman,Barry Alexander Kosmin,András Kovács
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9786155211133

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New Jewish Identities by Zvi Y. Gitelman,Barry Alexander Kosmin,András Kovács Pdf

A unique collection of essays that deal with the intriguing and complex problems connected to the question of Jewish identity in the contemporary world. Based on a conference held in Budapest, Hungary in July 2001, it analyzes and compares how Jews conceive of their Jewishness. Do they see it in mostly religious, cultural or ethnic terms? What are the policy implications of these views and how have they been evolving? What do they portend for the future of world Jewry? The authors present new data from west European and post-Communist countries (Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Russia, Ukraine) and re-interpret data from other European countries as well as from Israel and the United States, making this a truly comprehensive, comparative and contemporary work.

Author : Stuart E. Rosenberg
Publisher : New York : Hippocrene
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015048555208

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The New Jewish Identity in America by Stuart E. Rosenberg Pdf

A survey of the influence of American life on the Jewish community from colonial times to the present. Part 3 (pp. 89-117), "Jews and Their Host Nations, " discusses the origins of antisemitism, and whether America can can succeed in transcending it where other nations have failed.

Author : Jonathan Webber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015032482112

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Jewish Identities in the New Europe by Jonathan Webber Pdf

How do the Jews of today's Europe-east and west-regard themselves, fifty years after the Holocaust? Do they perceive themselves as a religious minority, an ethnic group, or simply as ordinary members of the wider European cultures in which they live? How do they regard the wider non-Jewish community, and how do they relate to the Jews of other European countries? To what extent is Israel a factor in forging these relationships? The contributors to this book are authorities in their respective subjects, and many have significant international reputations. Together they cover a wide range of topics from different perspectives. Among the problems considered are: what the future holds for the Jews of Europe; what it means to be Jewish in the countries of eastern Europe (Russia, Poland, and Hungary are considered in detail by local experts); hopes and uncertainties in religious trends; and the likely development of interfaith relations, as seen by both Jews and Christians. A well-argued introduction identifies the points of convergence, the contradictions, and the myths implicit in the different analyses and teases out the main conclusions and implications. Timely, authoritative, and accessible, this book is essential reading for anyone who wishes to know about the contemporary concerns of the Jews of Europe.

Author : Klara Moricz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520933680

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Jewish Identities by Klara Moricz Pdf

Jewish Identities mounts a formidable challenge to prevailing essentialist assumptions about "Jewish music," which maintain that ethnic groups, nations, or religious communities possess an essence that must manifest itself in art created by members of that group. Klára Móricz scrutinizes concepts of Jewish identity and reorders ideas about twentieth-century "Jewish music" in three case studies: first, Russian Jewish composers of the first two decades of the twentieth century; second, the Swiss American Ernest Bloch; and third, Arnold Schoenberg. Examining these composers in the context of emerging Jewish nationalism, widespread racial theories, and utopian tendencies in modernist art and twentieth-century politics, Móricz describes a trajectory from paradigmatic nationalist techniques, through assumptions about the unintended presence of racial essences, to an abstract notion of Judaism.

Author : Helen Kiyong Kim,Noah Samuel Leavitt
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780803285651

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JewAsian by Helen Kiyong Kim,Noah Samuel Leavitt Pdf

"An examination of intersecting racial, ethnic, and religious identities among couples where one partner is Jewish American and the other is Asian American"--

Author : Susan A. Glenn,Naomi B Sokoloff
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295990552

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Boundaries of Jewish Identity (Samuel and Althea Stroum Book) by Susan A. Glenn,Naomi B Sokoloff Pdf

The subject of Jewish identity is one of the most vexed and contested issues of modern religious and ethnic group history. This interdisciplinary collection draws on work in law, anthropology, history, sociology, literature, and popular culture to consider contemporary and historical responses to the question: "Who and what is Jewish?"

Author : Jonathan Boyarin,Daniel Boyarin
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816627509

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Jews and Other Differences by Jonathan Boyarin,Daniel Boyarin Pdf

Author : Caryn S. Aviv,David Shneer
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814740187

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New Jews by Caryn S. Aviv,David Shneer Pdf

For many contemporary Jews, Israel no longer serves as the Promised Land, the center of the Jewish universe and the place of final destination. In New Jews, Caryn Aviv and David Shneer provocatively argue that there is a new generation of Jews who don't consider themselves to be eternally wandering, forever outsiders within their communities and seeking to one day find their homeland. Instead, these New Jews are at home, whether it be in Buenos Aires, San Francisco or Berlin, and are rooted within communities of their own choosing. Aviv and Shneer argue that Jews have come to the end of their diaspora; wandering no more, today's Jews are settled. In this wide-ranging book, the authors take us around the world, to Moscow, Jerusalem, New York and Los Angeles, among other places, and find vibrant, dynamic Jewish communities where Jewish identity is increasingly flexible and inclusive. New Jews offers a compelling portrait of Jewish life today.

Author : Harvey E.,Steven M. Cohen,Ezra Kopelowitz
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857452580

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Dynamic Belonging by Harvey E.,Steven M. Cohen,Ezra Kopelowitz Pdf

World Jewry today is concentrated in the US and Israel, and while distinctive Judaic approaches and practices have evolved in each society, parallels also exist. This volume offers studies of substantive and creative aspects of Jewish belonging. While research in Israel on Judaism has stressed orthodox or "extreme" versions of religiosity, linked to institutional life and politics, moderate and less systematized expressions of Jewish belonging are overlooked. This volume explores the fluid and dynamic nature of identity building among Jews and the many issues that cut across different Jewish groupings. An important contribution to scholarship on contemporary Jewry, it reveals the often unrecognized dynamism in new forms of Jewish identification and affiliation in Israel and in the Diaspora.

Author : Judith Deutsch Kornblatt
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299194833

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Doubly Chosen by Judith Deutsch Kornblatt Pdf

Doubly Chosen provides the first detailed study of a unique cultural and religious phenomenon in post-Stalinist Russia—the conversion of thousands of Russian Jewish intellectuals to Orthodox Christianity, first in the 1960s and later in the 1980s. These time periods correspond to the decades before and after the great exodus of Jews from the Soviet Union. Judith Deutsch Kornblatt contends that the choice of baptism into the Church was an act of moral courage in the face of Soviet persecution, motivated by solidarity with the values espoused by Russian Christian dissidents and intellectuals. Oddly, as Kornblatt shows, these converts to Russian Orthodoxy began to experience their Jewishness in a new and positive way. Working primarily from oral interviews conducted in Russia, Israel, and the United States, Kornblatt underscores the conditions of Soviet life that spurred these conversions: the virtual elimination of Judaism as a viable, widely practiced religion; the transformation of Jews from a religious community to an ethnic one; a longing for spiritual values; the role of the Russian Orthodox Church as a symbol of Russian national culture; and the forging of a new Jewish identity within the context of the Soviet dissident movement.

Author : Laurence J. Silberstein
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814797686

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Mapping Jewish Identities by Laurence J. Silberstein Pdf

In his opening remarks, Silberstein (Jewish studies, Lehigh U.) reflects on the current trend of viewing identity as a mapping process of becoming rather than a fixed construct to be traced. Essays by 13 other US and Israeli contributors further advance this non-essentialist perspective in regard to Jewish identity viewed through personal narratives, photographs, Spiegelman's Holocaust Maus comic books, the Yiddish question, a critique of Zionist ideology, Israeli identity and literature, Judeo-Christian kinship, sex differences as discussed in Levinas' work, and postmodern ideas of individuation without identity. c. Book News Inc.

Author : Zvi Y. Gitelman,Zvi Gitelman
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813576312

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The New Jewish Diaspora by Zvi Y. Gitelman,Zvi Gitelman Pdf

In 1900 over five million Jews lived in the Russian empire; today, there are four times as many Russian-speaking Jews residing outside the former Soviet Union than there are in that region. The New Jewish Diaspora is the first English-language study of the Russian-speaking Jewish diaspora. This migration has made deep marks on the social, cultural, and political terrain of many countries, in particular the United States, Israel, and Germany. The contributors examine the varied ways these immigrants have adapted to new environments, while identifying the common cultural bonds that continue to unite them. Assembling an international array of experts on the Soviet and post-Soviet Jewish diaspora, the book makes room for a wide range of scholarly approaches, allowing readers to appreciate the significance of this migration from many different angles. Some chapters offer data-driven analyses that seek to quantify the impact Russian-speaking Jewish populations are making in their adoptive countries and their adaptations there. Others take a more ethnographic approach, using interviews and observations to determine how these immigrants integrate their old traditions and affiliations into their new identities. Further chapters examine how, despite the oceans separating them, members of this diaspora form imagined communities within cyberspace and through literature, enabling them to keep their shared culture alive. Above all, the scholars in The New Jewish Diaspora place the migration of Russian-speaking Jews in its historical and social contexts, showing where it fits within the larger historic saga of the Jewish diaspora, exploring its dynamic engagement with the contemporary world, and pointing to future paths these immigrants and their descendants might follow.

Author : Jay R. Berkovitz
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814344071

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The Shaping of Jewish Identity in Nineteenth–Century France by Jay R. Berkovitz Pdf

Nineteenth-century French Jewry was a community struggling to meet the challenges of emancipation and modernity. This struggle, with its origins in the founding of the French nation, constitutes the core of modern Jewish identity. With the Revolution of 1789 came the collapse of the social, political, and philosophical foundations of exclusiveness, forcing French society and the Jews to come to terms with the meaning of emancipation. Over time, the enormous challenge that emancipation posed for traditional Jewish beliefs became evident. In the 1830s, a more comprehensive ideology of regeneration emerged through the efforts of younger Jewish scholars and intellectuals. A response to the social and religious implications of emancipation, it was characterized by the demand for the elimination of rituals that violated the French conceptions of civilization and social integration; a drive for greater administrative centralization; and the quest for inter-communal and ethnic unity. In its various elements, regeneration formed a distinct ideology of emancipation that was designed to mediate Jewish interaction with French society and culture. Jay Berkovitz reveals the complexities inherent in the processes of emancipation and modernization, focusing on the efforts of French Jewish leaders to come to terms with the social and religious implications of modernity. All in all, his emphasis on the intellectual history of French Jewry provides a new perspective on a significant chapter of Jewish history.

Author : Yehuda Kurtzer,Claire E. Sufrin
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781644694701

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The New Jewish Canon by Yehuda Kurtzer,Claire E. Sufrin Pdf

“Extraordinarily rich, lively and illuminating. ... [The editors] have succeeded magnificently in achieving their goal.” —Jewish Journal The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have been a period of mass production and proliferation of Jewish ideas, and have witnessed major changes in Jewish life and stimulated major debates. The New Jewish Canon offers a conceptual roadmap to make sense of such rapid change. With over eighty excerpts from key primary source texts and insightful corresponding essays by leading scholars, on topics of history and memory, Jewish politics and the public square, religion and religiosity, and identities and communities, The New Jewish Canon promises to start conversations from the seminar room to the dinner table. The New Jewish Canon is both text and textbook of the Jewish intellectual and communal zeitgeist for the contemporary period and the recent past, canonizing our most important ideas and debates of the past two generations; and just as importantly, stimulating debate and scholarship about what is yet to come.

Author : Zvi Gitelman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139789622

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Jewish Identities in Postcommunist Russia and Ukraine by Zvi Gitelman Pdf

Before the USSR collapsed, ethnic identities were imposed by the state. This book analyzes how and why Jews decided what being Jewish meant to them after the state dissolved and describes the historical evolution of Jewish identities. Surveys of more than 6,000 Jews in the early and late 1990s reveal that Russian and Ukrainian Jews have a deep sense of their Jewishness but are uncertain what it means. They see little connection between Judaism and being Jewish. Their attitudes toward Judaism, intermarriage and Jewish nationhood differ dramatically from those of Jews elsewhere. Many think Jews can believe in Christianity and do not condemn marrying non-Jews. This complicates their connections with other Jews, resettlement in Israel, the United States and Germany, and the rebuilding of public Jewish life in Russia and Ukraine. Post-Communist Jews, especially the young, are transforming religious-based practices into ethnic traditions and increasingly manifesting their Jewishness in public.