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Jewish Survival: The Identity Problem at the Close of the Twentieth Century »

Authors: Ernest Krausz, Gitta Tulea
ISBN-13: 9781560003953, ISBN-10: 1560003952
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Date Published: September 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Ernest Krausz

Book Synopsis

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.

Booknews

Derived from an international workshop (Sociological Institute for Community Studies, Bar-Ilan U., March 18-19, 1997), this volume presents the views of 18 contributors--including the keynote address by Irving Louis Horowitz (Rutgers U.)--on the issue of whether Jewish values and frameworks will continue to ensure Jewish survival as a unique social entity. Includes a sociological analysis of the complexities of Jewish identity, discussions of Jewish community boundaries, and factual accounts from the Diaspora and Israel. Name index only. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

	Acknowledgments
	Foreword
	Introduction
1	Minimalism or Maximalism: Jewish Survival at the Millennium	1
2	The Diaspora-Community-Tradition Paradigms of Jewish Identity: A Reappraisal	21
3	Quasi-Sectarian Religiosity, Cultural Ethnicity and National Identity: Convergence and Divergence among Hahamei Yisrael	33
4	Collective Jewish Identity in Israel: Towards an Irrevocable Split?	65
5	Building Jewish Identity for Tomorrow: Possible or Not?	77
6	Judaism and Jewish Ethnicity: Changing Interrelationships and Differentiations in the Diaspora and Israel	87
7	On Theory and Methods in the Study of Jewish Identity	107
8	Jewish Identity and Survival in Contemporary Society: The Evidence from Jewish Humor	123
9	Jewish Identity in the Twenty-first Century	145
10	Jews in Israel and the United States: Diverging Identities	163
11	Hasidic Jews: Social Boundaries and Institutional Development as Mechanisms of Identity Control	169
12	Naming Norms and Identity Choices in Israel	191
13	Tracking Demographic Assimilation: Evidence from Canada's Major Cities	207
14	The Structure and Determinants of Jewish Identity in the United Kingdom	227
15	Identity Quest among Russian Jews of the 1990s: Before and After Emigration	241
16	Concluding Remarks: Patterns of Jewish Identity	259
	Contributors	265
	Index	267