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?"

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.

Social Science and the Politics of Modern Jewish Identity

Social Science and the Politics of Modern Jewish Identity
Title Social Science and the Politics of Modern Jewish Identity PDF eBook
Author Mitchell Bryan Hart
Publisher Stanford University Press
Pages 364
Release 2000
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780804738248

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This book traces the emergence and development of an organized, institutionalized Jewish social science, and explores the increasing importance of statistics and other modes of analysis for Jewish elites throughout Europe and the United States. The Zionist movement provided the initial impetus as it looked to the social sciences to provide the knowledge of contemporary Jewish life deemed necessary for nationalist revival. The social sciences offered empirical evidence of the ambiguous condition of the Jewish diaspora, and also charted emancipation and assimilation, viewed as dissolutions of and threats to Jewish identity. Liberal, assimilationist scholars also utilized social science data to demonstrate the continuing viability of Jewish life in the diaspora. Jewish social science grew out of a sustained effort to understand and explain the effects of modernization on Jewry. Above all, Jewish scholars sought to give the enormous transformations undergone by Jewry in the nineteenth century a larger meaning and significance

Religion and Jewish Identity in the Soviet Union, 1941-1964

Religion and Jewish Identity in the Soviet Union, 1941-1964
Title Religion and Jewish Identity in the Soviet Union, 1941-1964 PDF eBook
Author Mordechai Altshuler
Publisher UPNE
Pages 336
Release 2012
Genre Social Science
ISBN 161168272X

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Unearths the roots of a national awakening among Soviet Jews during World War II and its aftermath

Jewish Identity

Jewish Identity
Title Jewish Identity PDF eBook
Author Elias Friedman
Publisher
Pages 231
Release 1987
Genre Religion
ISBN 9780939409013

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By Elias Friedman, O.C.D. Preface by Msgr. Eugene Kevane Introduction by Ronda Chervin, Ph.D. Jewish Identity is a prophetic reading of the signs of the times, the fruit of a lifetime of prayer and study by Father Elias Friedman, O.C.D. The author, a Jewish convert, analyzes with scholarship and spiritual insight the great drama entailing the apostasy of the Gentiles and the return of the Jews to Palestine. Political and Spiritual Zionism, the role of Israel in salvation history, and the self-understanding of the Jews are all treated in this book. The new international organization founded by Father Elias, the Association of Hebrew Catholics, is an early manifestation of the spiritual insights contained in this work. In a paral-lel development, the Church, beginning with Vatican Council II, has been updating its teaching regarding Jews and Judaism. The relevant material, included in the book's ap-pendix, bears witness to the thought of Father Elias.

Religion Or Ethnicity?

Religion Or Ethnicity?
Title Religion Or Ethnicity? PDF eBook
Author Zvi Y. Gitelman
Publisher
Pages 344
Release 2009
Genre Social Science
ISBN

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Can someone be considered Jewish if he or she never goes to synagogue, doesn't keep kosher, and for whom the only connection to his or her ancestral past is attending an annual Passover seder? In Religion or Ethnicity? fifteen leading scholars trace the evolution of Jewish identity. The book examines Judaism from the Greco-Roman age, through medieval times, modern western and eastern Europe, to today. Jewish identity has been defined as an ethnicity, a nation, a culture, and even a race. Religion or Ethnicity? questions what it means to be Jewish. The contributors show how the Jewish people have evolved over time in different ethnic, religious, and political movements. In his closing essay, Gitelman questions the viability of secular Jewishness outside Israel but suggests that the continued interest in exploring the relationship between Judaism's secular and religious forms will keep the heritage alive for generations to come.

Israel and the Politics of Jewish Identity

Israel and the Politics of Jewish Identity
Title Israel and the Politics of Jewish Identity PDF eBook
Author Asher Cohen
Publisher JHU Press
Pages 180
Release 2000-06-16
Genre History
ISBN 9780801863455

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The role of religion in a democratic society Best Book award given by the Israel Political Science Association Since the 1980s, relationships between secular and religious Israelis have gone from bad to worse. What was formerly a politics of accommodation, one whose main objective was the avoidance of strife through "arrangements" and compromises, has become a winner-take-all, zero-sum game. The conflict is not over who gets what. Rather, it is a conflict over the very character of the polity, a struggle to define Israel's collective character. In Israel and the Politics of Jewish Identity Asher Cohen and Bernard Susser show how this transformation has been caused by structural changes in Israel's public sphere. Surveying many different levels of public life, they explore the change of Israel's politics from a dominant-party system to a balanced two-camp system. They trace the rise of the Haredi parties and the growing consonance of religiosity with right-wing politics. Other topics include the new Basic Laws on Freedom, Dignity, and Occupation; the effects of massive immigration of secular Jews from the former Soviet Union; the greater emphasis on liberal "good government"; and the rise of an aggressive investigative press and electronic media.