Jewish Survival: The Identity Problem at the Close of the 20th Century 1560003952, 9781560003953

Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
Keynote Address
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
Contributors
Index

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