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Author : Jonathan Wolff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 764 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Transformation of American jews' identity in contemporary century written by Jonathan Wolff and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arnold Dashefsky
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783031668333
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (683 download)
Download or read book Jewish Options written by Arnold Dashefsky and published by Springer. This book was released on 2024-10-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an examination of an expanding set of options for being Jewish in contemporary American society. It examines the evolution of Jewish identity across five epochs of Jewish civilization as well as the transformation of the American Jewish experience across four centuries. In addition, an institutional history and a geographic, demographic, and religious profile of American Jews are presented, including an outline of contemporary Jewish options to express Jewish identity in twenty-first century America. Readers will gain an understanding of how these options developed via the provision of a socio-historical and a social scientific analysis of each option in one integrated volume. The book also discusses contemporary challenges to the continuity of American Jewish community and identity including the issues of education, interfaith marriage, and philanthropy.
Author : Dana Evan Kaplan
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023113729X
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Contemporary American Judaism written by Dana Evan Kaplan and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No longer controlled by a handful of institutional leaders based in remote headquarters and rabbinical seminaries, American Judaism is being transformed by the spiritual decisions of tens of thousands of Jews living all over the United States. A pulpit rabbi and himself an American Jew, Dana Evan Kaplan follows this religious individualism from its postwar suburban roots to the hippie revolution of the 1960s and the multiple postmodern identities of today. From Hebrew tattooing to Jewish Buddhist meditation, Kaplan describes the remaking of historical tradition in ways that channel multiple ethnic and national identities. While pessimists worry about the vanishing American Jew, Kaplan focuses on creative responses to contemporary spiritual trends that have made a Jewish religious renaissance possible. He believes that the reorientation of American Judaism has been a "bottom up" process, resisted by elites who have reluctantly responded to the demands of the "spiritual marketplace." The American Jewish denominational structure is therefore weakening at the same time that religious experimentation is rising, leading to the innovative approaches supplanting existing institutions. The result is an exciting transformation of what it means to be a religious American Jew in the twenty-first century.
Author : Alan M. Dershowitz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684848988
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)
Download or read book The Vanishing American Jew written by Alan M. Dershowitz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998-09-08 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the meaning of Jewishness in light of the increasing assimilation of America's Jews and suggests ways to preserve Jewish identity.
Author : Roberta Rosenberg Farber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Jews in America written by Roberta Rosenberg Farber and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emphasizing the changing patterns of conflict and accommodation resulting from the interaction of American and Jewish values, Jews in America will interest anyone concerned with Jewish identity and continuity in the twenty-first century.
Author : Gerald Sorin
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801854477
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (544 download)
Download or read book Tradition Transformed written by Gerald Sorin and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1997-04-18 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sorin also shows how the large migration of Jews from Russia and Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth century made a lasting impact on how other Americans imagine, understand, and relate to Jewish Americans and their cultural contributions today.
Author : Edward S. Shapiro
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815630753
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (37 download)
Download or read book We Are Many written by Edward S. Shapiro and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The topics of Edward Shapiro's book span the gamut of the American Jewish experience: from the politics of American Jews, the nature of American Jewish identity, relations between Jews and blacks, and Jews and American capitalism. He discusses writer Herman Wouk; Patrick Buchanan and the Jews; John Higham's interpretation of American anti-Semitism, Nathan Glazer's view of American Orthodoxy, and the Jewishness of Sidney Hook. Of particular interest is the author's exploration of how American Jews have reconciled their dual identities as Americans and as Jews. These solutions has shaped the way Jews have voted, prayed, earned a living, married, and chosen a profession. America, Shapiro argues, has truly been different for Jews, but this difference has shaped the history of America's Jews in unexpected and ironic ways. The fact that Jews have risen rapidly up the economic and social ladder and have become politically influential has not eliminated their insecurity and the sense they have of themselves as a marginal group.
Author : Paul R. Mendes-Flohr
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195074536
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (745 download)
Download or read book The Jew in the Modern World written by Paul R. Mendes-Flohr and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last two centuries have witnessed a radical transformation of Jewish life. Marked by such profound events as the Holocaust and the establishment of the state of Israel, Judaism's long journey through the modern age has been a complex and tumultuous one, leading many Jews to ask themselves not only where they have been and where they are going, but what it means to be a Jew in today's world. Tracing the Jewish experience in the modern period and illustrating the transformation of Jewish religion, culture, and identity from the 17th century to 1948, the updated edition of this critically acclaimed volume of primary materials remains the most complete sourcebook on modern Jewish history. Now expanded to supplement the most vital documents of the first edition, The Jew in the Modern World features hitherto unpublished and inaccessible sources concerning the Jewish experience in Eastern Europe, women in Jewish history, American Jewish life, the Holocaust, and Zionism and the nascent Jewish community in Palestine on the eve of the establishment of the State of Israel. The documents are arranged chronologically in each of eleven chapters and are meticulously and extensively annotated and cross-referenced in order to provide the student with ready access to a wide variety of issues, key historical figures, and events. Complete with some twenty useful tables detailing Jewish demographic trends, this is a unique resource for any course in Jewish history, Zionism and Israel, the Holocaust, or European and American history.
Author : David L. Reznik
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131726438X
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book New Jews written by David L. Reznik and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "New Jews'?" is the first comprehensive study of American Jewish identity in Hollywood movies of the new millennium. Despite the argument that we live in a "post-racial" society with supposedly "new" Jewish characters emerging on the big screen, this book details how traditional racial stereotypes of American Jews persist in popular films from the first decade of this century. In clear and readable prose, the book offers an innovative and penetrating look at dozens of American Jewish "meddling matriarchs," "neurotic nebbishes," "pampered princesses," and "scheming scumbags" from 21st century film, whether Hollywood blockbusters like Meet the Fockers and Sex and the City or indie favorites like Garden State and Kissing Jessica Stein. Throughout the book, famous American Jewish characters played by the likes of Jim Carrey, Tom Cruise, Anne Hathaway, Kate Hudson, Scarlett Johansson, Sarah Jessica Parker, Adam Sandler, and Ben Stiller are discussed, with the ultimate conclusion that movies today are marked less by the emergence of "new Jews" than by the continued - but dynamic and transformed -- presence of the same old stereotypes.
Author : Tamar Rudavsky
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814774520
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Gender and Judaism written by Tamar Rudavsky and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1995-03 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstates through different essays Jewish Womens movement rides the fine line between tradition and transformation.
Author : Sid Schwarz
Publisher : Jewish Lights Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1580231853
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Finding a Spiritual Home written by Sid Schwarz and published by Jewish Lights Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like countless others of their generation, many contemporary American Jews have abandoned the religion of their birth to search for a spiritual home in other traditions.
Author : Ernest Krausz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000951251
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Jewish Survival written by Ernest Krausz and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-14 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays address Jewish identity, Jewish survival, and Jewish continuity. The authors account for and analyze trends in Jewish identification and the reciprocal effects of the relationship between the Diaspora and Israel at the end of the twentieth century.Jewish identification in contemporary society is a complex phenomenon. Since the emancipation of Jews in Europe and the major historic events of the Holocaust and the establishment of the State of Israel, there have been substantial changes in the collective Jewish identity. As a result, Jewish identity and the Jewish process of identification had to confront the new realities of an open society, its economic globalization, and the impacts of cultural pluralism. The trends in Jewish identification are toward fewer and weaker points of attachment: fewer Jews who hold religious beliefs with such beliefs held less strongly; less religious ritual observance; attachment to Zionism and Israel becoming diluted; and ethnic communal bonds weakening. Jews are also more involved in the wider society in the Diaspora due to fewer barriers and less overt anti-Semitism. This opens up possibilities for cultural integration and assimilation. In Israel, too, there are signs of greater interest in the modern world culture. The major questions addressed by this volume is whether Jewish civilization will continue to provide the basic social framework and values that will lead Jews into the twenty-first century and ensure their survival as a specific social entity.The book contains special contributions by Professor Julius Gould and Professor Irving Louis Horowitz and chapters on "Sociological Analysis of Jewish Identity"; "Jewish Community Boundaries"; and "Factual Accounts from the Diaspora and Israel."
Author : Jack Wertheimer
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584656708
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (567 download)
Download or read book Imagining the American Jewish Community written by Jack Wertheimer and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2007 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively collection of sixteen essays on the many ways American Jews have imagined and constructed communities
Author : Steven M. Cohen
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791443729
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (437 download)
Download or read book National Variations in Jewish Identity written by Steven M. Cohen and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1999-11-18 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how and why Jewish identity varies in different locations around the world and examines the implications of these variations for Jewish education.
Author : Norman Linzer
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Portrait of the American Jewish Community written by Norman Linzer and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1998-05-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive look at the Jewish American community at the turn of the 21st century explores the many issues emerican Jews and their organizations are confronting, and shows how the Jewish community responds so as to remain a distinct entity while also becoming a part of the larger American culture. The contributors investigate the complex issues facing the American Jewish community in 12 areas that are at the heart of the Jewish communal enterprise. This work will be of interest to students and scholars of Jewish studies and interfaith studies, to professionals in social work and social services, and to anyone interested in American communal dynamics.
Author : Shaul Magid
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253008093
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book American Post-Judaism written by Shaul Magid and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do American Jews identify as both Jewish and American? American Post-Judaism argues that Zionism and the Holocaust, two anchors of contemporary American Jewish identity, will no longer be centers of identity formation for future generations of American Jews. Shaul Magid articulates a new, post-ethnic American Jewishness. He discusses pragmatism and spirituality, monotheism and post-monotheism, Jesus, Jewish law, sainthood and self-realization, and the meaning of the Holocaust for those who have never known survivors. Magid presents Jewish Renewal as a movement that takes this radical cultural transition seriously in its strivings for a new era in Jewish thought and practice.
Author : James Hyman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781470019846
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (198 download)
Download or read book The Jewish Future Is Here written by James Hyman and published by . This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Jews construct lives of meaning by seeking out and choosing what engages them in whatever domain they find it. As the primary vehicle for transmitting Jewish identity, Jewish education plays a ubiquitous role in shaping Jewish identity in the Jewish community. However, Jewish education is almost exclusively delivered in institutions that are identified as primarily religious in nature. Therefore, there is a significant gap between the breadth of ways Jews find and build lives of meaning and the infrastructure of Jewish education in America. If Judaism is more than a religion and American Jews find meaningfulness in multi-faceted ways, then we must build an educational infrastructure that reflects both the breadth and dynamic nature of Jewish identity in the 21st century. This booklet offers a unique perspective as to why the current structure of the American Jewish community is increasingly inadequate to meet the needs of American Jews and offers a vision of a different kind of educational infrastructure. Without such a transformation, whatever we might create will be fragile and vulnerable to the changing nature of Jewish identity, Jewish affiliation, and membership in the years to come.
