Comparative Perspectives on Judaisms and Jewish Identities

Comparative Perspectives on Judaisms and Jewish Identities
Title Comparative Perspectives on Judaisms and Jewish Identities PDF eBook
Author Stephen Sharot
Publisher Wayne State University Press
Pages 338
Release 2011
Genre Religion
ISBN 9780814334010

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"Comparative Perspectives on Judaisms and Jewish Identities makes a unique contribution, building on but not duplicating Sharot's earlier work. There is no comparable work that covers all of these periods and particular cases."---Harriet Hartman, professor of sociology at Rowan University --

Boundaries of Jewish Identity (Samuel and Althea Stroum Book)

Boundaries of Jewish Identity (Samuel and Althea Stroum Book)
Title Boundaries of Jewish Identity (Samuel and Althea Stroum Book) PDF eBook
Author Susan A. Glenn
Publisher University of Washington Press
Pages 259
Release 2010
Genre History
ISBN 0295990554

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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?"

Jewish Identities in Postcommunist Russia and Ukraine

Jewish Identities in Postcommunist Russia and Ukraine
Title Jewish Identities in Postcommunist Russia and Ukraine PDF eBook
Author Zvi Gitelman
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 383
Release 2012-10-15
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1139789627

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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.

People of the Book

People of the Book
Title People of the Book PDF eBook
Author Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky
Publisher Univ of Wisconsin Press
Pages 524
Release 1996
Genre Jewish college teachers
ISBN 9780299150143

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The contributors are highly productive and respected Jewish-American scholars, critics, and teachers from departments of English, history, American studies, Romance literature, Slavic studies, art, women's studies, comparative literature, anthropology, Judaic studies, and philosophy.

Jews and Jewish Identities in Latin America

Jews and Jewish Identities in Latin America
Title Jews and Jewish Identities in Latin America PDF eBook
Author Yaron Harel
Publisher Jewish Latin American Studies
Pages 426
Release 2019-02-08
Genre History
ISBN 9781644690321

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This book is an excellent tool both for scholars and students interested in the wide range of Jewish expressions found in Latin America, which are hardly known in other regions.

Jews and Journeys

Jews and Journeys
Title Jews and Journeys PDF eBook
Author Joshua Levinson
Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
Pages 363
Release 2021-08-06
Genre Religion
ISBN 0812297938

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Journeys of dislocation and return, of discovery and conquest hold a prominent place in the imagination of many cultures. Wherever an individual or community may be located, it would seem, there is always the dream of being elsewhere. This has been especially true throughout the ages for Jews, for whom the promises and perils of travel have influenced both their own sense of self and their identity in the eyes of others. How does travel writing, as a genre, produce representations of the world of others, against which one's own self can be invented or explored? And what happens when Jewish authors in particular—whether by force or of their own free will, whether in reality or in the imagination—travel from one place to another? How has travel figured in the formation of Jewish identity, and what cultural and ideological work is performed by texts that document or figure specifically Jewish travel? Featuring essays on topics that range from Abraham as a traveler in biblical narrative to the guest book entries at contemporary Israeli museum and memorial sites; from the marvels medieval travelers claim to have encountered to eighteenth-century Jewish critiques of Orientalism; from the Wandering Jew of legend to one mid-twentieth-century Yiddish writer's accounts of his travels through Peru, Jews and Journeys explores what it is about travel writing that enables it to become one of the central mechanisms for exploring the realities and fictions of individual and collective identity.

Recovering Jewishness

Recovering Jewishness
Title Recovering Jewishness PDF eBook
Author Frederick S. Roden
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Pages 289
Release 2016-02-22
Genre Religion
ISBN 1440837759

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Judaism and Jewish life reflect a diversity of identity after the past two centuries of modernization. This work examines how the early reformers of the 19th century and their legacy into the 20th century created a livable, liberal Jewish identity that allowed a reinvention of what it meant to be Jewish—a process that continues today. Many scholars of the modern Jewish identity focus on the ways in which the past two centuries have resulted in the loss of Jewishness: through "assimilation," intermarriage, conversion to other faiths, genocide (in the Holocaust), and decline in religious observance. In this work, author Frederick S. Roden presents a decidedly different perspective: that the changes in Judaism throughout the 19th and 20th centuries resulted in a malleable, welcoming, and expanded Jewish identity—one that has benefited from intermarriage and converts to Judaism. The book examines key issues in the modern definition of Jewish identity: who is and is not considered a Jew, and why; issues of Jewish "authenticity"; and the recent history of the debate. Attention is paid to the experiences of individuals who came to Judaism from outside the tradition: through marrying into Jewish families and/or choosing Judaism as a religion. In his consideration of the tragedy of the Holocaust, the author examines how a totalitarian regime's racial policing of Jewish identity served to awaken a connection with and reconfiguration of what that Jewish identity meant for those who retrospectively realized their Jewishness in the postwar era.