New Jewish Identities

András Kovács, Barry Alexander Kosmin, Zvi Y. Gitelman (eds)
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New Jewish Identities
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9789639241626
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388
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English
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15.9 x 23.4 cm
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Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Jacqueline Goldberg, Social Identity in British and South African Jewry 2. Barry Kosmin, Religious Identity in the Social and Political Arena: An Examination of the Attitudes of Orthodox and Progressive Jews in the UK 3. Stephen Miller, Changing Patterns of Jewish Identity Among British Jews 4. Regine Azria, A Typological Approach to French Jewry 5. Lars Dencik, “Jewishness” in Post-Modernity: The Case of Sweden 6. Zvi Gitelman, Becoming Jewish in Russia and Ukraine 7. John Klier, The Jewish Press and Jewish Identity: Leningrad/St. Petersburg, 1989-1992 8. Malka Korazim and Esther Katz, Patterns of Jewish Identity in the Jewish Community of Moldova: The Behavioral Dimension 9. Judith Deutsch Kornblatt, Jewish Identity and the Orthodox Church in Late Soviet Russia 10. Alanna Cooper, Looking Out for One’s Own Identity: Central Asian Jews in the Wake of Communism 11. Andras Kovacs, Jewish Groups and Identity Strategies in Post-Communist Hungary 12. Marius Gudonis, Particularizing the Universal: New Polish Jewish Identities and a New Framework of Analysis 13. Claire Rosenson, Polish Jewish Institutions in Transition: Personalities Over Process 14. Charles Liebman, Jewish Identity in the United States and Israel 15. Jonathan Webber, Notes Towards the Definition of Jewish Culture in the New Europe 16. Charles Liebman, Jewish Identity in Transition: Transformation or Attenuation?

New Jewish Identities

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.
Editors

András Kovács

András Kovács is Professor at the Nationalism Studies Department and Academic Director of Jewish Studies at the Central European University.

Barry Alexander Kosmin

Barry A. Kosmin is Executive Director, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, London.