Jewish Survival: The Identity Problem at the Close of the Twentieth Century
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 events of the Holocaust and the establishment of the State of Israel, there have been substantial...
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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. 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.
AcknowledgmentsForewordIntroduction1Minimalism or Maximalism: Jewish Survival at the Millennium12The Diaspora-Community-Tradition Paradigms of Jewish Identity: A Reappraisal213Quasi-Sectarian Religiosity, Cultural Ethnicity and National Identity: Convergence and Divergence among Hahamei Yisrael334Collective Jewish Identity in Israel: Towards an Irrevocable Split?655Building Jewish Identity for Tomorrow: Possible or Not?776Judaism and Jewish Ethnicity: Changing Interrelationships and Differentiations in the Diaspora and Israel877On Theory and Methods in the Study of Jewish Identity1078Jewish Identity and Survival in Contemporary Society: The Evidence from Jewish Humor1239Jewish Identity in the Twenty-first Century14510Jews in Israel and the United States: Diverging Identities16311Hasidic Jews: Social Boundaries and Institutional Development as Mechanisms of Identity Control16912Naming Norms and Identity Choices in Israel19113Tracking Demographic Assimilation: Evidence from Canada's Major Cities20714The Structure and Determinants of Jewish Identity in the United Kingdom22715Identity Quest among Russian Jews of the 1990s: Before and After Emigration24116Concluding Remarks: Patterns of Jewish Identity259Contributors265Index267
\ BooknewsDerived 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.\ \
