New Zionists - Young American Jews, Jewish National Identity, and Israel

Through a qualitative analysis and broad historical contextualization of personal interviews, The New Zionists shows how American Jewish "Millennials" who are not religiously orthodox approach Israel and Zionism as galvanizing solutions to the thinning of American Jewish identity, and (re)root themselves through "Israeliness"-an unselfconscious and largely secular expression of national kinship and solidarity, as well as of personal and communal purpose, that American Judaism scarcely provides.

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Why This Book?

Chapter 2: The Interviewees: A Preliminary Sketch

Chapter 3: The Personal Narratives: General Findings

Chapter 4: Ethnicity and Religion Among Zionists of Generation Y: A Few Paradigmatic Cases

Chapter 5: Living Zionist Responsibility

Chapter 6: Non-Zionist and Anti-Zionist Alternatives

Conclusions

Bibliography

About the Author

About the author

David L. Graizbord is associate professor of Judaic studies at the University of Arizona.

Summary

This book analyzes American Jewish millennials and explains their behavior in terms of the history of American Jewishness. The author shows that Zionism serves as a means by which American Jewish millennials department from earlier American Judaism and construct alternate sense of purpose and solidarity.

Product details

• Authors: David L. Graizbord, Graizbord David L.
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781498580458
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-8045-8
• No. of pages: 314
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; RELIGION / Judaism / Rituals & Practice, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, Jewish Studies, Judaism: life & practice, Relating to Jewish people & groups, Social groups: religious groups & communities