Contemporary Jewries: Convergence and DivergenceEliezer Ben Rafael, Yosef Gorni, Yaacov Ro'i This is a book about "Klal Yisrael," the worldwide commonwealth of the Jewish people. The main question asked, is whether one can still speak of 'one' Jewish people, encompassing all Jews in the world. The Jewish collective identity stands at new crossroads of multicultural ideologies and transnational diasporism. Jewry is experiencing an existential problem in today's changing society, shifting between convergence and unity on the one hand and divergence and division on the other hand. Quo vadis, O Jewish people? Rather than fully answering this question, researchers from Israel, the United States, Brazil, Argentina, Ukraine, Russia, France and Belgium try to open up the discussion in this book. |
Contents
From Halakha to History | 17 |
To be Jewish in Belgium These Days | 18 |
Is the Jewish Diaspora Unique? | 23 |
World Jewish Population at the Dawn of | 45 |
The Meaning of JewishIsraeli Identity | 65 |
ReligiousZionist Thought | 78 |
IsraeliJewish Identities | 93 |
The Significance of Israel in Modern Jewish Identities | 118 |
The Meanings of Jewishness in Russia and Ukraine | 201 |
Israel and Russia Compared | 216 |
The Dilemma of RussianBorn Adolescents in Israel | 235 |
The Changing French Jewish Identity | 255 |
Is the French Model in Decline? | 266 |
MAURICE KONOPNICKI | 282 |
Israel in Jewish Communal LifeSouth America | 291 |
Complementary | 306 |
Between Two Zions | 133 |
Unraveling the Ethnoreligious Package | 143 |
Identity and Identification of Jewish Baby Boomers | 151 |
Jewish Continuity from the ReformJudaism Perspective | 161 |
Soviet Jewry from Identification to Identity | 183 |
Argentine Jewry in a Period of Economic Crisis | 335 |
The Space and Dilemmas of Contemporary | 343 |
Glossary | 360 |
Contributors | 382 |
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