Study of Jewish identity, issues and approaches

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In Jewish Youth around the World Social Identity and Values, Erik Cohen offers a rich and multi-faceted picture of Jewish adolescents and young adults on numerous empirical studies conducted by the author over the course of two decades among various populations in Israel and every major Diaspora country, it considers a range of issues, including: demographics and Released on: Aug Think back to the Jewish children’s books of your youth.

You may remember “The Adventures of K’Tonton,” “All-of-a-Kind Family” or “The Carp in the Bathtub.” Now picture the. In the first comprehensive study of Jewish identity and its meaning for the history of art, eleven influential scholars illuminate the formative role of Jews as subjects of art historical discourse.

At the same time, these essays introduce to art history an understanding of the place of cultural identity in the production of butors explore the meaning of Jewishness to writers.

This is the third, and shortest, book in his purposefully provocative trilogy on the history of “the” Jewish people. In the explosive opening to that series, The Invention of the Jewish People (), Sand argued that what he calls Zionist historiography is primarily a set of myths that distort the actual history of Jews, Judaism and their.

An investigation of Jewish identity politics and Jewish contemporary ideology using both popular culture and scholarly texts. Jewish identity is tied up with some of the most difficult and contentious issues of today. The purpose in this book is to open many of these issues up for discussion/5().

In Jewish Youth around the World Social Identity and Values, Erik Cohen offers a rich and multi-faceted picture of Jewish adolescents and young adults on numerous empirical studies conducted by the author over the course of two decades among various populations in Israel and every Study of Jewish identity Diaspora country, it considers a range of issues, including: demographics and.

Data from the National Jewish Population Study shows that nearly three-fourths of American Jews, including many who are not synagogue members, identify as Jews through a framework of a particular Jewish denomination.

4 However, “while denominational identification is often highly predictive of attitudes and behavior, it is important to. Exclusion and Hierarchy Orthodoxy, Nonobservance, and the Emergence of Modern Jewish Identity Adam S. Ferziger.

pages | 6 x 9 | 2 illus. Cloth | ISBN | $s | Outside the Americas £ A volume in the series Jewish Culture and Contexts View table of contents and excerpt "A very readable and intelligent study of Orthodoxy in modern times."—.

Abstract. Jewish education is widely perceived as one of the major means for strengthening Jewish identity and identification. We examine this basic assumption and propose a conceptualization and mapping of the Jewish Identity Space as a tool for better understanding, exploring, and applying aspects related to the relationship between Jewish education and Jewish identity.

The Cairo Geniza is the largest and richest store of documentary evidence for the medieval Islamic world. This book seeks to revolutionize the way scholars use that treasure trove.

Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman draws on legal documents from the Geniza to reconceive of life in the medieval Islamic marketplace. In place of the shared practices broadly understood by scholars to have transcended. An investigation of Jewish identity politics and Jewish contemporary ideology using both popular culture and scholarly texts.

Jewish identity is tied up with some of the most difficult and contentious issues of today. The purpose in this book is to open many of these issues up for s:   The Australian Journal of Jewish Studies is an international, peer-reviewed journal published annually by the Australian Association for Jewish Studies.

The Journal is devoted to the study of Jewish culture in all aspects and all periods. All research articles in the Journal have undergone rigorous peer review. The present study aims to examine the impact of encounter between two different ethnic groups, Jews and Arabs, of Israeli first-year graduate students who study in four colleges of education, on the development of their intercultural competence: (1) knowledge regarding the “other,” (2) change in attitudes and behavior towards the other, and (3) multicultural educational practice.

American Jews may not know their way around the Talmud or much about Jewish history, but they sure do excel at soul-searching and have for many, many years.

In the late 19th century, in the midth and again in our own day, taking the community’s pulse—and finding it weak and listless—has been a common pursuit and a constant refrain.

U.S. Jews see being Jewish as more a matter of ancestry, culture and values than of religious observance. Six-in-ten say, for example, that being Jewish is mainly a matter of culture or ancestry, compared with 15% who say it is mainly a matter of religion.

Roughly seven-in-ten say remembering the Holocaust and leading an ethical life are essential to what it means to them to be Jewish. Judaisms is the first book to assess and summarize Jewish history from the time of the Hebrew Bible through today using multiple perspectives.

Ideal for classroom use, Judaisms. provides a synthetic and coherent alternative understanding of Jewish identity for students of all backgrounds. Enhance your teaching with one of JWA’s award-winning curricula. Use it in original form, or adapt for your unique classroom.

In Lesson Plans, you can: Browse by curriculum Filter and sort individual lesson plans by multiple criteria Discover and engage with a range of content, from Jewish involvement in the Civil Rights and Labor movements to creating an empowering Bat Mitzvah experience.

Understanding Palestine & Israel will brought together seven faculty members from Wake Forest University’s Middle East and South Asia Studies Program and Jewish Studies Program to provide a wide range of disciplinary approaches and scholarly perspectives to the study of this contentious issue.

• Jewish Studies Faculty Book Talk. The most liberal element of the Uncircumcision Mission is hinted at in the Corinthian correspondence. There, a group of people aspired to be free of all law, including ritual and moral. This radical group rejected any Jewish identity within the Christian movement.

It is not known who its leaders were. What has it meant to be Jewish in a nation preoccupied with the categories of black and white. The Price of Whiteness documents the uneasy place Jews have held in America’s racial culture since the late nineteenth century.

The book traces Jews’ often tumultuous encounter with race from the s through World War II, when they became vested as part of America’s white mainstream and. In the first comprehensive study of Jewish identity and its meaning for the history of art, eleven influential scholars illuminate the formative role of Jews as subjects of art historical discourse.

At the same time, these essays introduce to art history an understanding of the place of cultural identity in the production of s: 2.The Talmud (Hebrew for “study”) is one of the central works of the Jewish people.

It is the record of rabbinic teachings that spans a period of about six hundred years, beginning in the first century C.E. and continuing through the sixth and seventh centuries C.E. Although the book’s portrayal of Jewish identity remains within the confines of American racial logic, it also points to the potential of Jewish tradition as a basis for reimagining belonging that goes beyond the limitations of that approach to communal identity, so that any body can be seen, without qualification, as a Jewish body.