Jewish Survival - The Identity Problem At the Close of the 20th Century

List of contents

Introduction 1. Minimalism or Maximalism: Jewish Survival at the Millennium Part One: Sociological Analysis of Jewish Identity 2. The Diaspora-Community-Tradition Paradigms of Jewish Identity: A Reappraisal 3. Quasi-Sectarian Religiosity, Cultural Ethnicity and National Identity: Convergence and Divergence among Hahamei Yisrael 4. Collective Jewish Identity in Israel: Towards an Irrevocable Split? 5. Building Jewish Identity for Tomorrow: Possible or Not? 6. Judaism and Jewish Ethnicity: Changing Interrelationships and Differentiations in the Diaspora and Israel 7. On Theory and Methods in the Study of Jewish Identity Part Two: Jewish Community Boundaries 8. Jewish Identity and Survival in Contemporary Society: The Evidence from Jewish Humor 9. Jewish Identity in the Twenty-first Century 10. Jews in Israel and the United States: Diverging Identities 11. Hasidic Jews: Social Boundaries and Institutional Development as Mechanisms of Identity Control Part Three: Factual Accounts from the Diaspora and Israel 12. Naming Norms and Identity Choices in Israel 13. Tracking Demographic Assimilation: Evidence from Canada’s Major Cities 14. The Structure and Determinants of Jewish Identity in the United Kingdom 15. Identity Quest among Russian Jews of the 1990s: Before and After Emigration 16. Concluding Remarks: Patterns of Jewish Identity

About the author

Ernest Krausz

Summary

These essays address Jewish identity, Jewish survival, and Jewish continuity

Product details

• Authors: Ernest Krauez, Ernest Tulea Krauez, Ernest Krausz, Krausz Ernest, Gitta Tulea
• Assisted by: Ernest Krausz (Editor), Gitta Tulea (Editor)
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.1998
• EAN: 9781560003953
• ISBN: 978-1-56000-395-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; RELIGION / Judaism / General, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Jewish, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Jewish Studies, Judaism, Social and cultural history, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities