Contemporary Jewries : convergence and divergence /

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Other Authors: Ben Rafael, Eliezer, Gorni, Yosef, Ro'i, Yaacov
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003.
Series:Jewish identities in a changing world ; v. 2
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Yosef Gorny, Yaacov Ro'i
  • PART ONE. GENERAL PERSPECTIVES
  • Klal Yisrael: from Halakha to history / Yosef Gorny
  • Is the Jewish Diaspora unique? / Gabriel Sheffer
  • World Jewish population at the dawn of the 20th century / Sergio Della Pergola
  • PART TWO. ISRAELI JEWISHNESS
  • The meaning of Jewish-Israeli identity / David Ohana
  • Israel and its covenant: religious-Zionist thought / Shalom Ratzabi
  • Israeli-Jewish identities / Eliezer Ben-Rafael
  • The significance of Israel in modern Jewish identities / Ruth Gavison
  • PART THREE. AMERICAN JEWISHNESS
  • Between two Zions / Henry L. Feingold
  • Unravelling the ethnoreligious package / Charles Liebman
  • Identity and identification of Jewish baby boomers / Chaim I. Waxman
  • Jewish continuity from the Reform-Judaism perspective / Ofer Shiff
  • PART FOUR. RUSSIAN JEWISHNESS
  • Soviet Jewry from identification to identity / Yaacov Ro'i
  • The meanings of Jewishness in Russia and Ukraine / Zvi Gitelman
  • Russian-Jewish ethnicity: Israel and Russia compared / Vladimir Khanin
  • The dilemma of Russian-born adolescents in Israel / Marina Niznick
  • PART FIVE. JEWISH IDENTITIES IN WESTERN EUROPE
  • The changing French Jewish identity / Michel Wieviorka
  • Is the French model in decline? / Pierre Birnbaum
  • To be Jewish in Belgium these days / Maurice Konopnicki
  • PART SIX. JEWISHNESS IN LATIN AMERICA
  • Israel in Jewish communal life - South America / Yosef Goldstein
  • Israel and Argentine Jews: complementary or conflicting? / Raanan Rein
  • Argentine Jewry in a period of economic crisis / Natan Lerner
  • BY WAY OF EPILOGUE
  • The space and dilemmas of contemporary Jewish identities / Eliezer Ben-Rafael.