Title Jewish revival inside out : remaking Jewishness in a transnational age / edited by Daniel Monterescu and Rachel Werczberger

Published Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource Series Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology Raphael Patai series in Jewish folklore and anthropology. Contents Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Riding the Jewish Renaissance: Survival, Revival, and Renewal -- Part I. Concepts -- 1. Revival as Imperative: Reflections on the Normativity of Jewish Renaissance -- 2. From Kiruv to Continuity: Survivalism and Renewal as Competing Categories in Judaism -- 3. Jewish. Jewish? "Jewish" Jewish!: New Authenticities amid Post-Holocaust, Postcommunist Europe's Jewish Revival -- Part II. Contexts -- 4. "Is You a Jew?": The Jewish Revival Scene in Budapest 5. Poland's Jewish Turn: Memory, Materiality, and Performance -- 6. Has There Been a "Jewish Revival" in Russia and Ukraine After Communism? -- 7. Between Boundary Making and Philo-Semitic Yearnings in Contemporary Germany -- 8. Ultra-Orthodox Judaism, Place Making, and Urban Boundaries in Paris -- 9. Breslov Hasidic Social Renewal and the Mizrahi Haredi Teshuva Movement -- Part III. Bodies -- 10. Healing the Self, Renewing Tradition: The Hybrid Discourse of Authenticity of New Age Judaism in Israel -- 11. "We Also Study in a Yeshiva": Ethnography in a Secular Yeshiva in Tel Aviv 12. On the Altar of Shekhina: The Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute and the Gendered Politics of Jewish Renewal -- Part IV. Retrospects -- 13. "High Liability Judaism": A Countercultural Autobiography of Havurat Shalom -- 14. After-Word, On-Word, Back-Word -- Contributors -- Index Summary Unravels the cultural tension inherent in project of Jewish revival, renewal, and survival in the face of an uncertain future Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 02, 2023) Subject Judaism. Jews -- Identity. Jewish renewal. Judaism. Jewish renewal Jews -- Identity Judaism Form Electronic book Author Monterescu, Daniel, editor. Werczberger, Rachel, editor. Biemann, Asher Magid, Shaul Gruber, Ruth Ellen Monterescu, Daniel Zorandy, Sara Zubrzycki, Geneviève Gitelman, Zvi Tzuberi, Hannah ISBN 0814349498 9780814349496

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