The social scientific study of Jewry : sources, approaches, debates / edited by Uzi Rebhun.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rebhun, Uzi, editor.

Makhon le-Yahadut zemanenu ʻa. sh. Avraham Harman.

Series:

Studies in contemporary Jewry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Social conditions--Research.

Jews.

Jews--Social conditions--History.

Jews--United States--Social conditions--History.

Social conditions.

History.

Jews--Social conditions.

United States--Ethnic relations.

United States.

Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

xv, 369 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Published for the Institute by Oxford University Press, [2014]

Contents:

Symposium

The Social Scientific Study of Jewry: Sources, Approaches, Debates

Sergio DellaPergola, Jewish Demography: Fundamentals of the Research Field 3

Leonard Saxe, Elizabeth Tighe, and Matthew Boxer, Measuring the Size and Characteristics of American Jewry: A New Paradigm to Understand an Ancient People 37

David Dutwin, Eran Ben-Porath and Ron Miller, U.S. Jewish Population Studies: Opportunities and Challenges 55

Harriet Hartman, Studies of Jewish Identity and Continuity: Competing, Complementary, and Comparative Perspectives 74

Esther Isabelle Wilder, Defining and Measuring the Socioeconomic Status of Jews 109

Chaim I. Waxman, The Professional Dilemma of Jewish Social Scientists: The Case of the ASSJ 133

David J. Graham, Contradictory Constructions of "Jewish" in Britain's Political and Legal Systems 141

Mark Tolts, Sources for the Demographic Study of the Jews in the Former Soviet Union 160

Judit Bokser Liwerant, Latin American Jewish Social Studies: The Evolution of a Cross-disciplinary Field 178

Aziza Khazzoom, Jews in Israel: Effects of Categorization Practice on Research Findings and Research Frameworks 194

Arnon Soffer, Jewish Majority and Jewish Minority in Israel: The Demographic Debate 212

Essay

Avi Picard, Funding Aliyah: American Jewry and North African Jews, 1952-1956 231

Review Essays

The Postwar Era: Repatriation, Resettlement, and Justice

Gabriel Finder, Toward a Broader View of Jewish Rebuilding after the Holocaust 251

Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz, The Holocaust and Its Aftermath in the Yishuv and the State of Israel 267

Laura Jockusch, Beyond Nuremberg: New Scholarship on Nazi War Crimes Trials in Germany 274

Olga Litvak, The God of History 290

Book Reviews

Anusemitism, Holocaust, and Genocide

David Bankier and Dan Michman (eds.), Holocaust and Justice: Representation and Historiography of the Holocaust in Post-war Trials / Laura Jockusch Jockusch, Laura 274

Shlomo Bar-Gil and Ada Schein, Viyshavtem betah: nitzolei hashoah bahityashvut ha'ovedet (Dwell in safety: Holocaust survivors in the rural cooperative settlement) / Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz Baumel-Schwartz, Judith Tydor 267

Yehuda Bauer, The Death of the Shtetl / Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz Baumel-Schwartz, Judith Tydor 305

John Cramer, Belsen Trial 1945: Der Lüneburger Prozess gegen Wachpersonal der Konzentrationslager Auschwitz und Bergen-Belsen / Laura Jockusch Jockusch, Laura 274

Margarete Myers Feinstein, Holocaust Survivors in Postwar Germany, 1945-1957 / Gabriel N. Finder Finder, Gabriel N. 251

Jonathan C. Friedman (ed.), The Routledge History of the Holocaust / Dan Michman Michman, Dan 309

Atina Grossmann, Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany / Gabriel N. Finder Finder, Gabriel N. 251

Patricia Heberer and Jürgen Matthäus (eds.), Atrocities on Trial: Historical Perspectives on the Politics of Prosecuting War Crimes / Laura Jockusch Jockusch, Laura 274

Ariel Hurwitz, Jews without Power: American Jewry during the Holocaust / Rafael Medoff Medoff, Rafael 311

Tomaz Jardim, The Mauthausen Trial: American Military Justice in Germany / Laura Jockusch Jockusch, Laura 274

Laura Jockusch, Collect and Record! Jewish Holocaust Documentation in Early Postwar Europe / Gabriel N. Finder Finder, Gabriel N. 251

Otto Dov Kulka and Eberhard Jäckel (eds.), The Jews in the Secret Nazi Reports on Popular Opinion in Germany, 1933-1945, trans. William Templer / Marion Kaplan Kaplan, Marion 314

Tamar Lewinsky, Displaced Poets: Jiddische Schriftsteller im Nachkriegsdeutschland, 1945-1951 / Gabriel N. Finder Finder, Gabriel N. 251

Anna Lipphardt, Vilne: Die Juden aus Vilnius nach dem Holocaust. Ein transnational Beziehungsgeschichte / Tobias Brinkmann Brinkmann, Tobias 318

Dalia Ofer, Françoise S. Ouzan, and Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz (eds.), Holocaust Survivors: Resettlement, Memories, Identities / Gabriel N. Finder Finder, Gabriel N. 251

Avinoam J. Patt and Michael Berkowitz (eds.), "We Are Here": New Approaches to Jewish Displaced Persons in Germany / Gabriel N. Finder Finder, Gabriel N. 251

Dina Porat, Israeli Society, the Holocaust and Its Survivors / Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz Baumel-Schwartz, Judith Tydor 267

Kim C. Priemel and Alexa Stiller (eds.), Reassessing the Nuremberg Military Tribunals: Transitional Justice, Trial Narratives, and Historiography / Laura Jockusch Jockusch, Laura 274

Shimon Redlich, Life in Transit: Jews in Postwar Lodz, 1945-1950 / Gabriel N. Finder Finder, Gabriel N. 320

Alan Rosen, The Wonder of Their Voices: The 1946 Holocaust Interviews of David Broder / Gabriel N. Finder Finder, Gabriel N. 251

Cultural Studies, Literature, and Thought

Leora Batnitzky, How Judaism Became a Religion: An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought / Hanoch Ben-Pazi Ben-Pazi, Hanoch 324

David Biale, Not in the Heavens: The Tradition of Jewish Secular Thought / Robert M. Seltzer Seltzer, Robert M. 326

Leonid Livak, The Jewish Persona in the European Imagination: A Case of Russian Literature / Rafi Tsirkin-Sadan Tsirkin-Sadan, Rafi 328

Shachar Pinsker, Literary Passports: The Making of Modernist Hebrew Fiction in Europe / Jordan Finkin Finkin, Jordan 330

Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus / Jeffrey Shandler Shandler, Jeffrey 337

Art Spiegelman, MetaMaus / Jeffrey Shandler Shandler, Jeffrey 337

Michael Weingrad, American Hebrew Literature: Writing Jewish National Identity in the United States / Jordan Finkin Finkin, Jordan 330

History, Social Sciences, and Biography

Rebecca T. Alpert, Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball / Ezra Mendelsohn Mendelsohn, Ezra 342

Gur Alroey, Bread to Eat and Clothes to Wear: Letters from Jewish Migrants in the Early 20th Century / Frank Wolff Wolff, Frank 344

Yaakov (Jacob) Barnai, Shmuel Ettinger: Historiyon, moreh veish tzibur (Shmuel Ettinger: Historian, teacher and public figure) / Olga Litvak Litvak, Olga 290

Albert I. Baumgarten, Elias Bickerman as a Historian of the Jews / Olga Litvak Litvak, Olga 290

Michael Brenner, Prophets of the Past: Interpreters of Jewish History, trans. Steven Rendall / Olga Litvak Litvak, Olga 290

David Cesarani, Tony Kushner, and Milton Shain (eds.), Place and Displacement in Jewish History and Memory: Zakor V'makor / Natasha Gordinsky Gordinsky, Natasha 345

Jonathan Dekel-Chen, David Gaunt, Natan M. Meir, and Israel Bartal (eds.), Anti-Jewish Violence: Rethinking the Pogrom in East European History / Brian Horowitz Horowitz, Brian 347

Marion A. Kaplan and Deborah Dash Moore (eds.), Gender and Jewish History / Vicki Caron Caron, Vicki 352

John Doyle Klier, Russians, Jews and the Pogroms of 1881-1882 / Brian Horowitz Horowitz, Brian 347

Rebecca Kobrin, Jewish Bialystok and Its Diaspora / Gur Alroey Alroey, Gur 355

Zionism, Israel, and the Middle East

Shaul Kelner, Tours that Bind: Diaspora, Pilgrimage, and Israeli Birthright Tourism / Jackie Feldman Feldman, Jackie 357

Henry Near, Where Community Happens: The Kibbutz and the Philosophy of Communalism / Eliezer Ben-Rafael Ben-Rafael, Eliezer 361

Noam Pianko, Zionism and the Roads Not Taken: Rawidowicz, Kaplan, Cohen / Allan M. Arkush Arkush, Allan M. 362

Leonard Saxe and Barry Chazan, Ten Days of Birthright Israel: A Journey in Young Adult Identity / Jackie Feldman Feldman, Jackie 357

Matthew Silver, Our Exodus: Leon Uris and the Americanization of Israel's Founding Story / Ariel Feldestein Feldestein, Ariel 364

Gadi Taub, The Settlers and the Struggle over the Meaning of Zionism / Michael Feige Feige, Michael 366.

Notes:

"The Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem."

Contains:

Waxman, Chaim I., 1941- Professional dilemma of Jewish social scientists: the case of the ASSJ.

ISBN:

9780199363490

0199363498

OCLC:

864753052