1st Edition
Jewish Survival The Identity Problem at the Close of the 20th Century
By Ernest Krausz
Copyright 1998
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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These essays address Jewish identity, Jewish survival, and Jewish continuity. The authors account for and analyze trends in Jewish identification and the reciprocal effects of the relationship between the Diaspora and Israel at the end of the twentieth century.Jewish identification in contemporary society is a complex phenomenon. Since the emancipation of Jews in Europe and the major historic... Read more
Introduction 1. Minimalism or Maximalism: Jewish Survival at the Millennium Part One: Sociological Analysis of Jewish Identity 2. The Diaspora-Community-Tradition Paradigms of Jewish Identity: A Reappraisal 3. Quasi-Sectarian Religiosity, Cultural Ethnicity and National Identity: Convergence and Divergence among Hahamei Yisrael 4. Collective Jewish Identity in Israel: Towards an Irrevocable Split? 5. Building Jewish Identity for Tomorrow: Possible or Not? 6. Judaism and Jewish Ethnicity: Changing Interrelationships and Differentiations in the Diaspora and Israel 7. On Theory and Methods in the Study of Jewish Identity Part Two: Jewish Community Boundaries 8. Jewish Identity and Survival in Contemporary Society: The Evidence from Jewish Humor 9. Jewish Identity in the Twenty-first Century 10. Jews in Israel and the United States: Diverging Identities 11. Hasidic Jews: Social Boundaries and Institutional Development as Mechanisms of Identity Control Part Three: Factual Accounts from the Diaspora and Israel 12. Naming Norms and Identity Choices in Israel 13. Tracking Demographic Assimilation: Evidence from Canada’s Major Cities 14. The Structure and Determinants of Jewish Identity in the United Kingdom 15. Identity Quest among Russian Jews of the 1990s: Before and After Emigration 16. Concluding Remarks: Patterns of Jewish Identity
Biography
Ernest Krausz
