Jewish Identity On All Frontiers
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Jewish Identity On All Frontiers
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Jewish Identity On All Frontiers written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with categories.
Approximately 6.8 million Jews live in the United States today. Of these, over 80% live in a few dozen communities, located predominantly along the North Atlantic Coast, in South Florida, and in Southern California, with isolated pockets of concentration elsewhere. Nearly all research on US Jewish life focuses on these communities, with little regard for the existence of smaller Jewish communities or the effect that Jewish community size may have on the ritual behavior, organizational affiliations, Jewish educational practices, and attitudes of American Jews, or the dynamics of their communities. This dissertation is the first large-scale study of the impact of Jewish community size on Jewish identity in the United States. Drawing on diverse theories of Jewish identity and both qualitative and quantitative data, and using existing research to develop county-level Jewish population estimates for every county in the country, I find that the size of a Jewish community is associated with a wide array of measures of Jewish identity, controlling for other factors. Perhaps more importantly, the research shows that Jewish communities of different sizes vary significantly in their preparations for life cycle events and holiday celebrations, communal participation and egalitarianism in ritual settings, approaches to Jewish education, and exposure to antisemitism. The research addresses many ways these differences can affect community members' Jewish identities, as well as the specific mechanisms by which they do so. Paraphrasing Bourdieu, I conclude that Judaism is treated as a contact sport in small communities, where a "do-it-yourself" ethos prevails, but as a spectator sport in larger communities, where greater resources allow community members to rely more heavily on a professional cadre of service providers for Jewish experiences. Although the primary contribution of this study is to the analysis of Jewish identity, implications for the study of other rare and minority communities are also addressed.
Jewish Frontiers
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Author : S. Gilman
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2003-07-10
Jewish Frontiers written by S. Gilman and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07-10 with History categories.
In a series of interlinked essays, Sander Gilman reimagines Jewish identity as that of people living on a frontier rather than in a diaspora.
Jewish Identity On The Suburban Frontier
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Author : Marshall Sklare
language : en
Publisher: New York, Basic Books [c1967]
Release Date : 1967
Jewish Identity On The Suburban Frontier written by Marshall Sklare and has been published by New York, Basic Books [c1967] this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Religion categories.
Jewries At The Frontier
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Author : Sander L. Gilman
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1999
Jewries At The Frontier written by Sander L. Gilman and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
Traversing far flung Jewish communities in South Africa, Australia, Texas, Brazil, China, New Zealand, Quebec, and elsewhere, this wide-ranging collection explores the notion of "frontier" in the Jewish experience as a historical/geographical reality and a conceptual framework. As a compelling alternative to viewing the periphery only as a locus of dispossession and exile from the "homeland, " this work imagines a new Jewish history written as the history of the Jews at the frontier. In this new history, governed by the dynamics of change, confrontation, and accommodation, marginalized experiences are brought to the center and all participants are given voice. By articulating the tension between the center/periphery model and the frontier model, Jewries at the Frontier shows how the productive confrontation between and among cultures and peoples generates a new, multivocal account of Jewish history.
Jewish Identity On The Surburban Frontier
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Author : Marshall Sklare
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
Jewish Identity On The Surburban Frontier written by Marshall Sklare and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with categories.
Jewish Identity
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Author : Simon N. Herman
language : en
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Release Date :
Jewish Identity written by Simon N. Herman and has been published by Transaction Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Social Science categories.
Employing insights from a broadly conceived social psychology, Simon N. Herman examines contemporary Jewish life in its totality as a constellation of interdependent factors. He sets forth criteria for the Jewish identity, analyzes the religious and national elements that interweave in it, the constancies and variations in that identity across the years and across countries, the impact on it of the Holocaust and the establishment of the state of Israel. An illuminating chapter is devoted to the question "Who is a Jew?" In his foreword to the fkst edition of this volume, Herbert Kelman of Harvard University described it as "a pioneering contribution to the study of ethnic/national identity." The second edition incorporates additional data derived from two recent studies conducted by the author. It includes a discussion of the direction of changes in the Jewish identity in the decade since publication of the first edition. Special attention is given to the Jewish reactions to the worldwide resurgence of anti-Semitism and to the turbulent events in and around Israel. A careful analysis is undertaken of the factors in the present situation that strengthen and weaken the Jewish identity.
Frontiers Of Jewish Thought
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Author : Steven T. Katz
language : en
Publisher: B'nai B'rith Book Service
Release Date : 1992
Frontiers Of Jewish Thought written by Steven T. Katz and has been published by B'nai B'rith Book Service this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.
This volume chronicles the main issues that have become central to the Jewish agenda during the past 30 years, and focuses needed attention on more recent concerns--such as the State of Israel, worldwide Jewish demographic trends, anti-semitism and assimilation, as well as feminism, nuclear war, and AIDS--that promise to be consequential throughout the 1990s and beyond.
Jews And Journeys
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Author : Joshua Levinson
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2021-08-06
Jews And Journeys written by Joshua Levinson and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-06 with Religion categories.
Journeys of dislocation and return, of discovery and conquest hold a prominent place in the imagination of many cultures. Wherever an individual or community may be located, it would seem, there is always the dream of being elsewhere. This has been especially true throughout the ages for Jews, for whom the promises and perils of travel have influenced both their own sense of self and their identity in the eyes of others. How does travel writing, as a genre, produce representations of the world of others, against which one's own self can be invented or explored? And what happens when Jewish authors in particular—whether by force or of their own free will, whether in reality or in the imagination—travel from one place to another? How has travel figured in the formation of Jewish identity, and what cultural and ideological work is performed by texts that document or figure specifically Jewish travel? Featuring essays on topics that range from Abraham as a traveler in biblical narrative to the guest book entries at contemporary Israeli museum and memorial sites; from the marvels medieval travelers claim to have encountered to eighteenth-century Jewish critiques of Orientalism; from the Wandering Jew of legend to one mid-twentieth-century Yiddish writer's accounts of his travels through Peru, Jews and Journeys explores what it is about travel writing that enables it to become one of the central mechanisms for exploring the realities and fictions of individual and collective identity.
Boundaries Of Jewish Identity
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Author : Susan A Glenn
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2011-07-01
Boundaries Of Jewish Identity written by Susan A Glenn and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-01 with Religion categories.
The subject of Jewish identity is one of the most vexed and contested issues of modern religious and ethnic group history. This interdisciplinary collection draws on work in law, anthropology, history, sociology, literature, and popular culture to consider contemporary and historical responses to the question �Who and what is Jewish?� These essays are focused especially on the issues of who creates the definitions, and how, and in what social and political contexts. The ten leading authorities writing here also look at the forces, ranging from new genetic and reproductive technologies to increasingly multicultural societies, that push against established boundaries. The authors examine how Jews have imagined themselves and how definitions of Jewishness have been established, enforced, challenged, and transformed. Does being a Jew require religious belief, practice, and formal institutional affiliation? Is there a biological or physical aspect of Jewish identity? What is the status of the convert to another religion? How do definitions play out in different geographic and historical settings? What makes Boundaries of Jewish Identity distinctive is its attention to the various Jewish �epistemologies� or ways of knowing who counts as a Jew. These essays reveal that possible answers reflect the different social, intellectual, and political locations of those who are asking. This book speaks to readers concerned with Jewish life and culture and to audiences interested in religious, cultural, and ethnic studies. It provides an excellent opportunity to examine how Jews fit into an increasingly diverse America and an increasingly complicated global society.
Jews On The Frontier
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Author : Shari Rabin
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2020-01-28
Jews On The Frontier written by Shari Rabin and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-28 with History categories.
Winner, 2017 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies presented by the Jewish Book Council Finalist, 2017 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, presented by the Jewish Book Council An engaging history of how Jews forged their own religious culture on the American frontier Jews on the Frontier offers a religious history that begins in an unexpected place: on the road. Shari Rabin recounts the journey of Jewish people as they left Eastern cities and ventured into the American West and South during the nineteenth century. It brings to life the successes and obstacles of these travels, from the unprecedented economic opportunities to the anonymity and loneliness that complicated the many legal obligations of traditional Jewish life. Without government-supported communities or reliable authorities, where could one procure kosher meat? Alone in the American wilderness, how could one find nine co-religionists for a minyan (prayer quorum)? Without identity documents, how could one really know that someone was Jewish? Rabin argues that Jewish mobility during this time was pivotal to the development of American Judaism. In the absence of key institutions like synagogues or charitable organizations which had played such a pivotal role in assimilating East Coast immigrants, ordinary Jews on the frontier created religious life from scratch, expanding and transforming Jewish thought and practice. Jews on the Frontier vividly recounts the story of a neglected era in American Jewish history, offering a new interpretation of American religions, rooted not in congregations or denominations, but in the politics and experiences of being on the move. This book shows that by focusing on everyday people, we gain a more complete view of how American religion has taken shape. This book follows a group of dynamic and diverse individuals as they searched for resources for stability, certainty, and identity in a nation where there was little to be found.