ISBN:
9789004277069
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (501 p)
Series Statement:
Jewish Identities in a Changing World
Parallel Title:
Print version Reconsidering Israel-Diaspora Relations
DDC:
305.892/4
Keywords:
Israel and the Diaspora ; Congresses
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Jews ; United States ; Attitudes toward Israel ; Congresses
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Jewry today is marked by transnational competing movements and local influences, meanwhile worldwide Judeophobia and sympathy for the Palestinian cause make Israel the ""Jew among nations". This volume asks: how much is the Jewish Commonwealth still pertinent to Jewry?
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; Introduction; Part 1 Diaspora-Israel: Continuities versus Discontinuities; Chapter 1 Jewish Peoplehood: Hard, Soft, and Interactive Markers; Chapter 2 From World-Wide People to First-World People: The Consolidation of World Jewry; Chapter 3 The "Jewish Peoplehood" Concept: Complications and Suggestions; Chapter 4 Ethnicity and State Policy: The State of Israel in the Intellectual and Political Discourse of the US Jewish Press; Chapter 5 Close and Distant: The Relations between Israel and the Diaspora; Part 2 Religiosity and Ethnicity
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 6 The Reform and Conservative Movements in Israel: Strategies of Peripheral Movements in a Monopolized Religious MarketChapter 7 Two Orthodox Cultures: "Centrist" Orthodoxy and Religious Zionism; Chapter 8 Ethnicity and Transnationalism: Latino Jews in Miami; Chapter 9 Strong Ethnicity: The Case of US-born Jews in Israel; Part 3 Gender and Generation; Chapter 10 Orthodox Jewish Women as a Bridge Between Israel and the Diaspora; Chapter 11 Gender, Religion, and the Search for a Modern Jewish Identity in "La rabina" by Silvia Plager
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 12 Global Jewish Youth Studies-Towards a TheoryChapter 13 Generational and Cultural Constructions of Jewish Peoplehood; Part 4 Israelophobia, Anti-Zionism and "Neo"-Antisemitism; Chapter 14 Debasing Praise: Hatred of the Jews in a Global Age; Chapter 15 Integration and Antisemitism: The Case of French Jewry; Chapter 16 How Antisemitism, Obsessive Criticism of Israel, and Do-Gooders Complicate Jewish Life in Germany; Chapter 17 Anti-Zionist Discourse of the Left in Latin America: An Assessment
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 18 American Jews and the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process: A Study of Diaspora in International AffairsPart 5 Configurations of World Jewry and the State of Israel; Chapter 19 Jewish Diaspora and Transnationalism: Awkward (Dance) Partners?; Chapter 20 The Dialectics of Diaspora in Contemporary Modernity; Chapter 21 Reflections on Israel and Jerusalem as the Centers of World Jewry; Chapter 22 Israel-Diaspora Relations: "Transmission Driving-belts" of Transnationalism; Epilogue: One-After All. . . . for the Time Being; Index
Note:
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