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Title Jewry between tradition and secularism : Europe and Israel compared / edited by Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Thomas Gergely, and Yosef Gorny
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 321 pages)
Series Jewish identities in a changing world, 1570-7997 ; v. 6
Jewish identities in a changing world ; v. 6, 1570-7997
Contents Preface: Judaism and the culture of memory / Thomas Gergely -- Introduction: European Jewry and Klal Yisrael / Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Thomas Gergely, and Yosef Gorny -- Is the French model in decline? / Pierre Birnbaum -- Case of Belgium / Jean-Philippe Schreiber -- Identity of Dutch Jews / Ludo Abicht -- Russian-Jewish immigration to Germany / Julius H. Schoeps, Willi Jasper, and Olaf Glöckner -- Religiosity, praxis, and tradition in contemporary Hungarian Jewry / András Kovács -- Being Jewish in Romania after the second world war / Carol Iangu -- Jewish identity, memory, and anti-Semitism / Maurice Konopnicki -- Siamese twins: religion and secularism in Jewish national thought / Yosef Gorny -- Israeli identity and mission in Buber's thought / Shalom Ratzabi -- Sovereignty, voluntarism, and Jewish identity: Nathan Rotenstreich / Avi Bareli -- On religious-secular tensions / Avi Sagi -- Religious-secular cleavage in contemprary Israel / Yochanan Peres -- On European Jewish Orthodoxy, Sephardic tradition, and the Shas movement / Zvi Zohar -- Ultra-Orthodox, Orthodox, and secular women in college / Lior Ben-Chaim Rafael -- Challenge of secularism to Jewish survival in Abba Hillel Silver's thinking / Ofer Shiff -- Identities of Jewish American women / Suzanne Vromen -- Jews and secularization: a challenge or a prospect? / Guy Haarscher -- Submission and subversion before the law / Rivon Krygier -- Tradition of diaspora and political reality of the state of Israel / David Meyer -- Diaspora museum and Israeli-Jewish identity / Dina Porat -- Jewish transnational community and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem / Uri Cohen -- Contemporary dilemmas of identity: Israel and the diaspora / Eliezer Ben-Rafael -- Was the Shoah the "sanctification of God"? / Thomas Gergely
Summary Are Jews today still the carriers of a single and identical collective identity and do they still constitute a single people? This two-fold question arises when one compares a Hassidi Habad from Brooklyn, a Jewish professor at a secular university in Brussels, a traditional Yemeni Jew still living in Sana'a, a Galilee kibbutznik, or a Russian Jew in Novossibirsk. Is there still today a significant relationship between these individuals who all subscribe to Judaism? The analysis shows that the Jewish identity is multiple and can be explained by considering all variants as "surface structures" of the three universal "deep structures" central to the notion of collective identity, namely, collective commitment, perceptions of the collective's singularity, and positioning vis-̉-vis "others."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-312) and indexes
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Subject Jews -- Europe -- Identity
Jews -- Israel -- Identity.
Judaism -- Europe
Judaism -- Israel
Orthodox Judaism -- Relations -- Israel -- Nontraditional Jews
Secularism -- Israel
Judaism and secularism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
Interfaith relations
Jews -- Identity
Judaism
Judaism and secularism
Nontraditional Jews
Orthodox Judaism
Secularism
Europe
Israel
Form Electronic book
Author Ben Rafael, Eliezer
Gergely, Thomas
Gorni, Yosef
LC no. 2006047458
ISBN 9789047409649
9047409647
1281399264
9781281399267
9786611399269
6611399267