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Berghahn Books Dynamic Belonging Contemporary Jewish Collective Identities 2011 Edition by Harvey E., Steven M. Cohen, Ezra Kopelowitz
World Jewry today is concentrated in the US and Israel, and while distinctive Judaic approaches and practices have evolved in each society, parallels also exist. This volume offers studies of substantive and creative aspects of Jewish belonging. While research in Israel on Judaism has stressed orthodox or "extreme" versions of religiosity, linked to institutional life and politics, moderate and less systematized expressions of Jewish belonging are overlooked. This volume explores the fluid and dynamic nature of identity building among Jews and the many issues that cut across different Jewish groupings. An important contribution to scholarship on contemporary Jewry, it reveals the often unrecognized dynamism in new forms of Jewish identification and affiliation in Israel and in the Diaspora. Table of contents :- PrefaceIntroduction: Dynamic Jewish Identities - Insights from a Comparative ViewHarvey E. GoldbergSection I: The Fluid Nature of Jewish BelongingChapter 1. Religion, Ethnic Identity, and the Sense of BelongingStanley BrandesChapter 2. Conceptual and Pragmatic Aspects of Binarism: Examples from Israeli Society.Harvey E. GoldbergChapter 3. From Security to Insecurity: British Jewish Communal Leadership in the Context of MulticulturalismKeith Kahn-Harris and Ben GidleyChapter 4. The Jewish Question Again: From Collective Identity to Social VitalityPhilip WexlerResponse to Section I: Rethinking Categories and Challenging Futures.Marcy Brink-DananSection II: Diverse Attempts at Constructing Jewish Sub-Cultures in Israel and the United StatesChapter 5. Fundamentalist or Romantic Nationalist? Israeli Modern OrthodoxyShlomo FischerChapter 6. Jewish Identity, Gender and Religion: Masorti Women and the Feminist Challenge to Traditional Jewish IdentityYaacov YadgarChapter 7. "Israeli-Jews" vs. "Jewish-Israelis" and the Ritual Connection to Diaspora JewryEzra Kopelowitz and Lior RosenbergChapter 8. Engaging the Next Generation of American Jews: Distinguishing the In-married, Intermarried, and Non-marriedSteven M. CohenResponse to Section II. Dynamic Belongings of Younger Jews and the Transformation of the Jewish SelfRachel WerczbergerSection III. Diverse Ways of Connecting to the Jewish PeopleChapter 9. Constructing Jewish Belonging through Mass Tourism: Self-Narration in Israel Experience ProgramsShaul KelnerChapter 10. A Jewish and Democratic State? How American Jews Discuss Israel's Identity DilemmaTheodore SassonChapter 11. In Search of Roots and Routes: The Making and Remaking of the Diasporic Jewish IdentityElan EzrachiResponse to Section III. Hummus, Challah, and Gefilte Fish: Israel in Diaspora Jewish CultureSarah Bunin BenorAfterward: "I'm a Gentile!" Border Dramas and Jewish ContinuityJack KugelmassBibliographyNotes on Contributors