Becoming Jewish : new Jews and emerging Jewish communities in a globalized world / edited by Tudor Parfitt and Netanel Fisher.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Parfitt, Tudor, editor.

Fisher, Netanel, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Identity.

Jews.

Jewish converts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (440 pages)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.

Summary:

One of the most striking contemporary religious phenomena is the world-wide fascination with Judaism. Traditionally, few non-Jews converted to the Jewish faith, but today millions of people throughout the world are converting to Judaism and are identifying as Jews or Israelites. In this volume, leading scholars of issues related to conversion, Judaising movements and Judaism as a New Religious Movement discuss and explain this global movement towards identification with the Jewish people, from Germany and Poland to China and Nigeria.--Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction: New Jews from a Global Perspective / Tudor Parfitt and Netanel Fisher

Joining or Rejoining the Jewish People in Africa / Tudor Parfitt

The Unification of the Ten Lost Tribes with the Two "Found" Tribes / Shalva Weil

Lost Tribes Communities, Israel, and Notions of Jewishness / Yulia Egorova

Origins and Motivations of Madagascar's Normative Jewish Movement / Nathan Devir

Joining the Conversation from a Distance: A Comparison of the Evolution of Jewish Identity among the Igbo from Nigeria and Ethopian Beta Israel / Daniel Lis

Kaifeng Judaism Today: Revival or Reintroduction? / Noam Urbach

From Apulia to Sicily: Places and Charismatic Leaders as Agents of Memory among Converts in Italy / Emanuela Trevisan Semi

New Jews in Europe / Eliezer Ben-Rafael

Joining the Jewish Fold: The Changing Conversion Policies in Austria and Germany since 1945: Susanne Cohen Weisz

"The German Desire to be Jewish": Conversions of Non-Jewish Germans to Judaism after 1945 / Barbara Steiner

Polish Newcomers to Jewishness: A Reflection in the Wake of the Revival / Jan Lorenz

Non-Traditional Ways of Joining the Jewish Collective: The FSU Experience / Vladimir (Ze'ev) Khanin and Elina Bardach-Yalov

Disciplinary, Normative and Instituional Aspects of Conversion to Judaism / Sergio DellaPergola

Joining the Jewish State: Israel's Conversion Policies / Netanel Fisher

Non-Jewish Immigrants from the FSU as Members of Jewish Society in Israel / Arie Haskin

Lay Theories and Attitudes toward Giyur among Israeli Jews / Gabriel Horenczyk and Hagit Hacohen Wolf

The Struggle of the Bene Israel to Be Recognized as Jews in Israel / Vivian Hafif Digmi

Messianic Religious Zionism and the Lost Tribes: The Case of the Bene Menashe / Galit Shashoua

"Your People Shall Be My Peole and Your Culture My Culture": Becoming a Jew

a Peoplehood Perspective / Regev Ben- David

Choosing Jews and Jewishness: A Portrait of Converts Married to American Jews / Sylvia Barack Fishman

Unofficial Conversions: Non-Jewish Participants in Contemporary American Synagogues / Yaakov Ariel

Participation of Non-Jewish Family Members in Bar/Bat-Mitzvah Ceremonies in the American Reform Movement: Boundaries of Inclusion? / Dalia Marx

Bridging Messianic Christianity and Liberal Judaism: A Journey of an American Convert / Chen Bram

The "Peculiar Institution" of Religion Freedom in the US: Conversion and Jews in the US Context / Marla Brettschneider.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 4, 2017).

ISBN:

1-4438-4960-X

OCLC:

966288160