New Jewish Identities

Herausgeber: Kovács, András; Gitelman, Zvi Y; Kosmin, Barry Alexander

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 711g
• ISBN-13: 9789639241626
• ISBN-10: 9639241628
• Artikelnr.: 22148010

Autorenporträt

András Kovács is Professor at the Nationalism Studies Department and Academic Director of Jewish Studies at the Central European University. Barry A. Kosmin is Executive Director, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, London.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments, Introduction, 1. Social Identity in British and South
African Jewry 2. Religious Identity in the Social and Political Arena: An
Examination of the Attitudes of Orthodox and Progressive Jews in the UK 3.
Changing Patterns of Jewish Identity Among British Jews 4. A Typological
Approach to French Jewry 5. "Jewishness" in Post-Modernity: The Case of
Sweden 6. Becoming Jewish in Russia and Ukraine 7. The Jewish Press and
Jewish Identity: Leningrad/St. Petersburg, 1989-1992 8. Patterns of Jewish
Identity in the Jewish Community of Moldova: The Behavioral Dimension 9.
Jewish Identity and the Orthodox Church in Late Soviet Russia 10. Looking
Out for One's Own Identity: Central Asian Jews in the Wake of Communism 11.
Jewish Groups and Identity Strategies in Post-Communist Hungary 12.
Particularizing the Universal: New Polish Jewish Identities and a New
Framework of Analysis 13. Polish Jewish Institutions in Transition:
Personalities Over Process 14. Jewish Identity in the United States and
Israel 15. Notes Towards the Definition of Jewish Culture in the New Europe
16. Jewish Identity in Transition: Transformation or Attenuation?