Dynamic Belonging
Contemporary Jewish Collective Identities
Published on 1. December 2011
272 pages
978-0-85745-258-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
Bibliography; Index; 7 Tables, unspecified
File size
3,42 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-85745-258-0 (9780857452580)
DOI
10.3167/9780857452573
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Harvey E. Goldberg | Steven M. Cohen | Ezra Kopelowitz
Dynamic Belonging
Contemporary Jewish Collective Identities
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12/2011
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Persons
Harvey E. Goldberg is Emeritus professor and Sarah Allen Shaine Chair in Sociology and Anthropology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has been a Visiting Lecturer at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociale and a Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
Content
Preface
Introduction: Dynamic Jewish Identities - Insights from a Comparative View
Harvey E. Goldberg
Section I: The Fluid Nature of Jewish Belonging
Chapter 1. Religion, Ethnic Identity, and the Sense of Belonging
Stanley Brandes
Chapter 2. Conceptual and Pragmatic Aspects of Binarism: Examples from Israeli Society.
Harvey E. Goldberg
Chapter 3. From Security to Insecurity: British Jewish Communal Leadership in the Context of Multiculturalism
Keith Kahn-Harris and Ben Gidley
Chapter 4. The Jewish Question Again: From Collective Identity to Social Vitality
Philip Wexler
Response to Section I: Rethinking Categories and Challenging Futures.
Marcy Brink-Danan
Section II: Diverse Attempts at Constructing Jewish Sub-Cultures in Israel and the United States
Chapter 5. Fundamentalist or Romantic Nationalist? Israeli Modern Orthodoxy
Shlomo Fischer
Chapter 6. Jewish Identity, Gender and Religion: Masorti Women and the Feminist Challenge to Traditional Jewish Identity
Yaacov Yadgar
Chapter 7. "Israeli-Jews" vs. "Jewish-Israelis" and the Ritual Connection to Diaspora Jewry
Ezra Kopelowitz and Lior Rosenberg
Chapter 8. Engaging the Next Generation of American Jews: Distinguishing the In-married, Intermarried, and Non-married
Steven M. Cohen
Response to Section II. Dynamic Belongings of Younger Jews and the Transformation of the Jewish Self
Rachel Werczberger
Section III. Diverse Ways of Connecting to the Jewish People
Chapter 9. Constructing Jewish Belonging through Mass Tourism: Self-Narration in Israel Experience Programs
Shaul Kelner
Chapter 10. A Jewish and Democratic State? How American Jews Discuss Israel's Identity Dilemma
Theodore Sasson
Chapter 11. In Search of Roots and Routes: The Making and Remaking of the Diasporic Jewish Identity
Elan Ezrachi
Response to Section III. Hummus, Challah, and Gefilte Fish: Israel in Diaspora Jewish Culture
Sarah Bunin Benor
Afterward: "I'm a Gentile!" Border Dramas and Jewish Continuity
Jack Kugelmass
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Dynamic Jewish Identities - Insights from a Comparative View
Harvey E. Goldberg
Section I: The Fluid Nature of Jewish Belonging
Chapter 1. Religion, Ethnic Identity, and the Sense of Belonging
Stanley Brandes
Chapter 2. Conceptual and Pragmatic Aspects of Binarism: Examples from Israeli Society.
Harvey E. Goldberg
Chapter 3. From Security to Insecurity: British Jewish Communal Leadership in the Context of Multiculturalism
Keith Kahn-Harris and Ben Gidley
Chapter 4. The Jewish Question Again: From Collective Identity to Social Vitality
Philip Wexler
Response to Section I: Rethinking Categories and Challenging Futures.
Marcy Brink-Danan
Section II: Diverse Attempts at Constructing Jewish Sub-Cultures in Israel and the United States
Chapter 5. Fundamentalist or Romantic Nationalist? Israeli Modern Orthodoxy
Shlomo Fischer
Chapter 6. Jewish Identity, Gender and Religion: Masorti Women and the Feminist Challenge to Traditional Jewish Identity
Yaacov Yadgar
Chapter 7. "Israeli-Jews" vs. "Jewish-Israelis" and the Ritual Connection to Diaspora Jewry
Ezra Kopelowitz and Lior Rosenberg
Chapter 8. Engaging the Next Generation of American Jews: Distinguishing the In-married, Intermarried, and Non-married
Steven M. Cohen
Response to Section II. Dynamic Belongings of Younger Jews and the Transformation of the Jewish Self
Rachel Werczberger
Section III. Diverse Ways of Connecting to the Jewish People
Chapter 9. Constructing Jewish Belonging through Mass Tourism: Self-Narration in Israel Experience Programs
Shaul Kelner
Chapter 10. A Jewish and Democratic State? How American Jews Discuss Israel's Identity Dilemma
Theodore Sasson
Chapter 11. In Search of Roots and Routes: The Making and Remaking of the Diasporic Jewish Identity
Elan Ezrachi
Response to Section III. Hummus, Challah, and Gefilte Fish: Israel in Diaspora Jewish Culture
Sarah Bunin Benor
Afterward: "I'm a Gentile!" Border Dramas and Jewish Continuity
Jack Kugelmass
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
