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Informationen zum Autor András Kovács is Professor at the Nationalism Studies Department and Academic Director of Jewish Studies at the Central European University. Barry A. Kosmin is Executive Director, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, London. Klappentext A unique collection of essays that deal with the intriguing and complex problems connected to the question of Jewish identity in the contemporary world. Based on a conference held in Budapest, Hungary in July 2001, it analyzes and compares how Jews conceive of their Jewishness. Do they see it in mostly religious, cultural or ethnic terms? What are the policy implications of these views and how have they been evolving? What do they portend for the future of world Jewry?The authors present new data from west European and post-Communist countries (Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Russia, Ukraine) and re-interpret data from other European countries as well as from Israel and the United States, making this a truly comprehensive, comparative and contemporary work. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments, Introduction, 1. Social Identity in British and South African Jewry 2. Religious Identity in the Social and Political Arena: An Examination of the Attitudes of Orthodox and Progressive Jews in the UK 3. Changing Patterns of Jewish Identity Among British Jews 4. A Typological Approach to French Jewry 5. "Jewishness" in Post-Modernity: The Case of Sweden 6. Becoming Jewish in Russia and Ukraine 7. The Jewish Press and Jewish Identity: Leningrad/St. Petersburg, 1989-1992 8. Patterns of Jewish Identity in the Jewish Community of Moldova: The Behavioral Dimension 9. Jewish Identity and the Orthodox Church in Late Soviet Russia 10. Looking Out for One's Own Identity: Central Asian Jews in the Wake of Communism 11. Jewish Groups and Identity Strategies in Post-Communist Hungary 12. Particularizing the Universal: New Polish Jewish Identities and a New Framework of Analysis 13. Polish Jewish Institutions in Transition: Personalities Over Process 14. Jewish Identity in the United States and Israel 15. Notes Towards the Definition of Jewish Culture in the New Europe 16. Jewish Identity in Transition: Transformation or Attenuation?...
