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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785643503321

Autore

Cohen Steven Martin

Titolo

National Variations in Jewish Identity [[electronic resource] ] : Implications for Jewish Education

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, 1999

ISBN

0-7914-9940-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (334 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HorenczykGabriel

Disciplina

305.892/4

Soggetti

Jews -- Identity -- Congresses

Jews -- Israel -- Identity -- Congresses

Jews -- United States -- Identity -- Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter""; ""Front Cover""; ""Half Title Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table Of Contents""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Jewish Responses to Modernity""; ""Being Jewish and ....""; ""Jewish Religious, Ethnic,and National Identities: Convergences and Conflicts""; ""Arthur Ruppin Revisited: The Jews of Today, 1904-1994""; ""A Tradition of Invention: Family and Educational Institutions among Contemporary Traditionalizing Jews""; ""National Contexts, Eastern EuropeanImmigrants, and Jewish Identity: A Comparative Analysis""; ""European and North American Variations""

""British Jews or Britons of the Jewish Persuasion? The Religious Constraints of Civic Freedom""""Reluctant Cosmopolitans: The Impact of Continentalism, Multi culturalism, and Globalization on Jewish Identity in Canada""; ""From Commandment to Persuasion: Probing the ""Hard"" Secularism of American Jewry""; ""Family Economy/Family Relations: The Development of American Jewish Ethnicity in the Early Twentieth Century""; ""Regional Variations in the United States""; ""Inventing Jewish Identity in California: Shlomo Bardin, Zionism, and the Brandeis Camp Institute""

""Jewishness in New York: Exception or the Rule?""""The Israel Difference""; ""From Individuality to Identity: Directionsin the Thought of J. B. Soloveitchik and Eliezer Schweid""; ""Patterns of Jewish Identity Among Israeli Youth and Implications for Teaching Jewish Texts""; ""A



Social Constructivist Approach to Jewish Identity""; ""Jewish and Other National and Ethnic Identities of Israeli Jews""; ""Back Matter""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""; ""Back Cover""