New Jewish Identities

by Gitelman, Zvi Y.; Kosmin, Barry A.; Kovacs, Andras

• ISBN13: 9789639241626
• ISBN10: 9639241628
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Central European University Pr

Summary

A unique collection of essays that deal with the intriguing and complex problems connected to the question of Jewish identity in the contemporary world. Concerning the problem of identity formation, this book addresses very important issues: What is the content or meaning of Jewish identity? What has replaced religion in defining the content of Jewishness? How do people in different age groups construct their Jewish identity? In most cases, the authors have combined a variety of research methods: they drew samples or relied on the sample surveys of others; used personal interviews with respondents who are especially knowledgeable about their own Jewish communities, or based their research on participant observation of particular communities or communal institutions.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
List of Tables and Appendices	xi
List of Figures	xvii
Acknowledgments	xix
Introduction	1	(4)
Zvi Gitelman
Social Identity in British and South African Jewry	5	(18)
Jacqueline Goldberg
Religious Identity in the Social and Political Arena: An Examination of the Attitudes of Orthodox and Progressive Jews in the UK	23	(22)
Barry Kosmin
Changing Patterns of Jewish Identity among British Jews	45	(16)
Stephen Miller
A Typological Approach to French Jewry	61	(14)
Regine Azria
``Jewishness'' in Postmodernity: The Case of Sweden	75	(30)
Lars Dencik
Becoming Jewish in Russia and Ukraine	105	(34)
Zvi Gitelman
The Jewish Press and Jewish Identity: Leningrad/St. Petersburg, 1989--1992	139	(32)
John D. Klier
Patterns of Jewish Identity in Moldova: The Behavioral Dimension	159	(12)
Malka Korazim
Esther Katz
Jewish Identity and the Orthodox Church in Late Soviet Russia	171	(18)
Judith Deutsch Kornblatt
Looking Out for One's Own Identity: Central Asian Jews in the Wake of Communism	189	(22)
Alanna E. Cooper
Jewish Groups and Identity Strategies in Post-Communist Hungary	211	(32)
Andras Kovacs
Particularizing the Universal: New Polish Jewish Identities and a New Framework of Analysis	243	(20)
Marius Gudonis
Polish Jewish Institutions in Transition: Personalities over Process	263	(28)
Claire A. Rosenson
Jewish Identity in the United States and Israel	291	(26)
Charles S. Liebman
Notes Towards the Definition of ``Jewish Culture'' in Contemporary Europe	317	(24)
Jonathan Webber
Jewish Identity in Transition: Transformation or Attenuation?	341	(10)
Charles S. Liebman
Index	351