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National variations in Jewish identity : implications for Jewish education / edited by Steven M. Cohen and Gabriel Horenczyk.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Identity--Congresses.
- Jews.
- Jews--United States--Identity--Congresses.
- Jews--Israel--Identity--Congresses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (334 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Explores how and why Jewish identity varies in different locations around the world and examines the implications of these variations for Jewish education.
- Contents:
- ""Front Matter""; ""Front Cover""; ""Half Title Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table Of Contents""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Jewish Responses to Modernity""; ""Being Jewish and ....""; ""Jewish Religious, Ethnic,and National Identities: Convergences and Conflicts""; ""Arthur Ruppin Revisited: The Jews of Today, 1904-1994""; ""A Tradition of Invention: Family and Educational Institutions among Contemporary Traditionalizing Jews""; ""National Contexts, Eastern EuropeanImmigrants, and Jewish Identity: A Comparative Analysis""; ""European and North American Variations""
- ""British Jews or Britons of the Jewish Persuasion? The Religious Constraints of Civic Freedom""""Reluctant Cosmopolitans: The Impact of Continentalism, Multi culturalism, and Globalization on Jewish Identity in Canada""; ""From Commandment to Persuasion: Probing the ""Hard"" Secularism of American Jewry""; ""Family Economy/Family Relations: The Development of American Jewish Ethnicity in the Early Twentieth Century""; ""Regional Variations in the United States""; ""Inventing Jewish Identity in California: Shlomo Bardin, Zionism, and the Brandeis Camp Institute""
- ""Jewishness in New York: Exception or the Rule?""""The Israel Difference""; ""From Individuality to Identity: Directionsin the Thought of J. B. Soloveitchik and Eliezer Schweid""; ""Patterns of Jewish Identity Among Israeli Youth and Implications for Teaching Jewish Texts""; ""A Social Constructivist Approach to Jewish Identity""; ""Jewish and Other National and Ethnic Identities of Israeli Jews""; ""Back Matter""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""; ""Back Cover""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780791499405
- 0791499405
- OCLC:
- 1475682346
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