National variations in Jewish identity : implications for Jewish education / / edited by Steven M. Cohen and Gabriel Horenczyk

• Pubblicazione: Albany, N.Y., : State University of New York Press, 1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (334 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.892/4
• Soggetto topico: Jews - Identity; Jews - United States - Identity; Jews - Israel - Identity
• Altri autori: CohenSteven Martin HorenczykGabriel <1954->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• 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""
• Sommario/riassunto: Explores how and why Jewish identity varies in different locations around the world and examines the implications of these variations for Jewish education.
• Titolo autorizzato: National variations in Jewish identity
• ISBN: 9780791499405; 0791499405
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910972226603321
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