The Call of the Homeland

by Gal, Allon; Leoussi, Athena S.; Smith, Anthony D.

• ISBN13: 9789004182103
• ISBN10: 9004182101
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-03-15
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

The Institute of Jewish Studies, founded in 1954 by the late Alexander Altmann, is dedicated to the promotion of all aspects of scholarship in Jewish studies and related fields. Its programmes include public lectures, seminars, and annual conferences. All lectures and conferences are open to the general public.

Author Biography

Allon Gal is a historian, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, and on the editorial board of the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Oxford. His recent major publication (chief editor) is World Regional Zionism: Geo-Cultural Dimensions, 3 volumes (Hebrew, 2009). Athena S. Leoussi, Ph.D. (LSE), is co-director of European Studies at the University of Reading, UK; visiting senior fellow in the Department of Government, LSE; and co-editor of Nations and Nationalism. Her publications include Nationalism and Ethnosymbolism (edited with Steven Grosby, 2006). Anthony D. Smith is emeritus professor of Ethnicity and Nationalism at LSE, UK. He is president of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism and editor-in-chief of Nations and Nationalism. His most recent book is Ethnosymbolism and Nationalism (2009).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Notes on the Contributors	p. ix
Introduction	p. xv
Charting the Historical Experience and Theoretical Frontiers of Diaspora Nationalisms
Diasporas and Homelands in History: The Case of the Classic Diasporas	p. 3
Beyond the Homeland: From Exilic Nationalism to Diasporic Transnationalism	p. 27
Contemporary Diasporas, Nationalism, and Transnationalism Politics	p. 47
Classic Diasporas in the Twenty-First Century
Diaspora's Liberal Nationalism and the Call of the Homeland: The American Jewish Case	p. 61
American Jewish Identity and New Patterns of Philanthropy	p. 81
Imagining Armenia	p. 105
From Greek-Orthodox Diaspora to Transnational Hellenism: Greek Nationalism and the Identities of the Diaspora	p. 139
The Call of the Homeland: Modern Cases of Diaspora Nationalism
Diaspora, the Irish, and Irish Nationalism	p. 169
Diaspora Nationalism: The Turkish Case	p. 219
Cry for an Endangered Homeland? The Contours of Sikh Diasporic Nationalism since 1984	p. 241
The Ukrainian Diaspora	p. 289
The Religious Dynamics of Heimat and Dispersal
Diaspora Consciousness, Nationalism, and 'Religion': The Case of Hindu Nationalism	p. 323
Homeland and Diaspora: The Case of Pentecostalism	p. 345
ôMuslim Nationalismö and the Politics of Otherness in the Age of Neo-Diaspora	p. 363
Index	p. 393
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