Reconsidering Israel-diaspora relations / edited by Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Judit Bokser Liwerant, and Yosef Gorny.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ben Rafael, Eliezer, editor.

Bokser de Liwerant, Judit, editor.

Gorni, Yosef, editor.

Series:

Jewish identities in a changing world ; Volume 22.

Jewish Identities in a Changing World, 1570-7997 ; Volume 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Israel and the diaspora--Congresses.

Israel and the diaspora.

Jews--United States--Attitudes toward Israel--Congresses.

Jews.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (501 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this era of globalization, Jewish diversity is marked more than ever by transnational expansion of competing movements and local influences on specific conditions. One factor that still makes Jewish communities one is the common reference to Israel. Today, however, differentiations and discrepancies in identification and behavior generate plurality and ambiguities about Israel-Diaspora relationships. Moreover the Judeophobia now rife in Europe and beyond as well as the spread of the Palestinian cause as a civil religion make Israel the world’s \'Jew among nations.” This weighs heavily on community relations - despite Israel’s active presence in the diaspora. In this context, the contributions to this volume focus on Jewish peoplehood, religiosity and ethnicity, gender and generation, Israelophobia and world Jewry, and debate the perspectives that are most pertinent to confront the question: how far is the Jewish Commonwealth (Klal Yisrael) still an important code of Jewry today? This book is also available in paperback.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction

1 Jewish Peoplehood: Hard, Soft, and Interactive Markers / Sergio Della Pergola

2 From World-Wide People to First-World People: The Consolidation of World Jewry / Jonathan D. Sarna

3 The “Jewish Peoplehood” Concept: Complications and Suggestions / Shulamit Reinharz

4 Ethnicity and State Policy: The State of Israel in the Intellectual and Political Discourse of the US Jewish Press / Yosef Gorny

5 Close and Distant: The Relations between Israel and the Diaspora / Ephraim Yuchtman-Ya’ar and Steven M. Cohen

6 The Reform and Conservative Movements in Israel: Strategies of Peripheral Movements in a Monopolized Religious Market / Yael Israel-Cohen

7 Two Orthodox Cultures: “Centrist” Orthodoxy and Religious Zionism / Shlomo Fischer

8 Ethnicity and Transnationalism: Latino Jews in Miami / Margalit Bejarano

9 Strong Ethnicity: The Case of US-born Jews in Israel / Nissim Leon

10 Orthodox Jewish Women as a Bridge Between Israel and the Diaspora / Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz

11 Gender, Religion, and the Search for a Modern Jewish Identity in “La rabina” by Silvia Plager / Florinda F. Goldberg

12 Global Jewish Youth Studies—Towards a Theory / Erik H. Cohen

13 Generational and Cultural Constructions of Jewish Peoplehood / Sylvia Barack Fishman

14 Debasing Praise: Hatred of the Jews in a Global Age / Shmuel Trigano

15 Integration and Antisemitism: The Case of French Jewry / Chantal Bordes-Benayoun

16 How Antisemitism, Obsessive Criticism of Israel, and Do-Gooders Complicate Jewish Life in Germany / Julius H. Schoeps

17 Anti-Zionist Discourse of the Left in Latin America: An Assessment / Leonardo Senkman

18 American Jews and the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process: A Study of Diaspora in International Affairs / Uzi Rebhun , Chaim I. Waxman and Nadia Beider

19 Jewish Diaspora and Transnationalism: Awkward (Dance) Partners? / Judit Bokser-Liwerant

20 The Dialectics of Diaspora in Contemporary Modernity / Lars Dencik

21 Reflections on Israel and Jerusalem as the Centers of World Jewry / Gabi Sheffer

22 Israel-Diaspora Relations: “Transmission Driving-belts” of Transnationalism / Eliezer Ben-Rafael

Epilogue: One—After All. . . . for the Time Being

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index at the end of each chapters.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-27707-2

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004277076 DOI