At the Hebrew University, Steven M. Cohen is Associate Professor at the Melton Center for Jewish Education and Gabriel Horenczyk is Senior Lecturer at the Melton Center and the School of Education. Cohen is the author of several books, including Two Worlds of Judaism: The Israeli and American Experiences (with Charles Liebman), and Cosmopolitans and Parochials: Modern Orthodox Jews in America (with Samuel C. Heilman). Horenczyk is the coeditor of Language, Identity, and Immigration (with Elite Olshtain).

"This book is a good survey of present knowledge and issues in the study of Jewish identity and its implications for education." — Nathan Glazer, Harvard University"National Variations in Jewish Identity is a lively study of vital issues facing Jews–a sure tribute to the superb group of scholars who contributed." — Jack Wertheimer, Jewish Theological Seminary

• IntroductionSteven M. Cohen Part I. Jewish Responses to Modernity 1. Being Jewish and...Michael A. Meyer 2. Jewish Religious, Ethnic, and National Identities: Convergences and ConflictsDaniel J. Elazar 3. Arthur Ruppin Revisited: The Jews of Today, 1904–1994Sergio DellaPergola 4. A Tradition of Invention: Family and Educational Institutions among Contemporary Traditionalizing JewsHarvey E. Goldberg Part II. European and North American Variations 5. National Contexts, Eastern European Immigrants, and Jewish Identity: A Comparative AnalysisPaula E. Hyman 6. British Jews or Britons of the Jewish Persuasion? The Religious Constraints of Civic FreedomGeoffrey Alderman 7. Reluctant Cosmopolitans: The Impact of Continentalism, Multiculturalism, and Globalization on Jewish Identity in CanadaStuart Schoenfeld 8. From Commandment to Persuasion: Probing the "Hard" Secularism of American JewryHenry L. Feingold 9. Family Economy/Family Relations: The Development of American Jewish Ethnicity in the Early Twentieth CenturyRiv-Ellen Prell Part III. Regional Variations in the United States 10. Inventing Jewish Identity in California: Shlomo Bardin, Zionism, and the Brandeis Camp InstituteDeborah Dash Moore 11. Jewishness in New York: Exception or the Rule?Bethamie Horowitz Part IV. The Israeli Difference 12. From Individuality to Identity: Directions in the Thought of J. B. Soloveitchik and Eliezer SchweidJonathan Cohen 13. Patterns of Jewish Identity Among Israeli Youth and Implications for Teaching of Jewish SourcesAsher Shkedi 14. A Social Constructivist Approach to Jewish IdentityGabriel Horencyzk and Zvi Bekerman 15. Jewish and Other National and Ethnic Identities of Israeli JewsStephen Sharot Index

At the Hebrew University, Steven M. Cohen is Associate Professor at the Melton Center for Jewish Education and Gabriel Horenczyk is Senior Lecturer at the Melton Center and the School of Education. Cohen is the author of several books, including Two Worlds of Judaism: The Israeli and American Experiences (with Charles Liebman), and Cosmopolitans and Parochials: Modern Orthodox Jews in America (with Samuel C. Heilman). Horenczyk is the coeditor of Language, Identity, and Immigration (with Elite Olshtain).

"This book is a good survey of present knowledge and issues in the study of Jewish identity and its implications for education." — Nathan Glazer, Harvard University"National Variations in Jewish Identity is a lively study of vital issues facing Jews–a sure tribute to the superb group of scholars who contributed." — Jack Wertheimer, Jewish Theological Seminary

• IntroductionSteven M. Cohen Part I. Jewish Responses to Modernity 1. Being Jewish and...Michael A. Meyer 2. Jewish Religious, Ethnic, and National Identities: Convergences and ConflictsDaniel J. Elazar 3. Arthur Ruppin Revisited: The Jews of Today, 1904–1994Sergio DellaPergola 4. A Tradition of Invention: Family and Educational Institutions among Contemporary Traditionalizing JewsHarvey E. Goldberg Part II. European and North American Variations 5. National Contexts, Eastern European Immigrants, and Jewish Identity: A Comparative AnalysisPaula E. Hyman 6. British Jews or Britons of the Jewish Persuasion? The Religious Constraints of Civic FreedomGeoffrey Alderman 7. Reluctant Cosmopolitans: The Impact of Continentalism, Multiculturalism, and Globalization on Jewish Identity in CanadaStuart Schoenfeld 8. From Commandment to Persuasion: Probing the "Hard" Secularism of American JewryHenry L. Feingold 9. Family Economy/Family Relations: The Development of American Jewish Ethnicity in the Early Twentieth CenturyRiv-Ellen Prell Part III. Regional Variations in the United States 10. Inventing Jewish Identity in California: Shlomo Bardin, Zionism, and the Brandeis Camp InstituteDeborah Dash Moore 11. Jewishness in New York: Exception or the Rule?Bethamie Horowitz Part IV. The Israeli Difference 12. From Individuality to Identity: Directions in the Thought of J. B. Soloveitchik and Eliezer SchweidJonathan Cohen 13. Patterns of Jewish Identity Among Israeli Youth and Implications for Teaching of Jewish SourcesAsher Shkedi 14. A Social Constructivist Approach to Jewish IdentityGabriel Horencyzk and Zvi Bekerman 15. Jewish and Other National and Ethnic Identities of Israeli JewsStephen Sharot Index

At the Hebrew University, Steven M. Cohen is Associate Professor at the Melton Center for Jewish Education and Gabriel Horenczyk is Senior Lecturer at the Melton Center and the School of Education. Cohen is the author of several books, including Two Worlds of Judaism: The Israeli and American Experiences (with Charles Liebman), and Cosmopolitans and Parochials: Modern Orthodox Jews in America (with Samuel C. Heilman). Horenczyk is the coeditor of Language, Identity, and Immigration (with Elite Olshtain).

"This book is a good survey of present knowledge and issues in the study of Jewish identity and its implications for education." — Nathan Glazer, Harvard University"National Variations in Jewish Identity is a lively study of vital issues facing Jews–a sure tribute to the superb group of scholars who contributed." — Jack Wertheimer, Jewish Theological Seminary

• IntroductionSteven M. Cohen Part I. Jewish Responses to Modernity 1. Being Jewish and...Michael A. Meyer 2. Jewish Religious, Ethnic, and National Identities: Convergences and ConflictsDaniel J. Elazar 3. Arthur Ruppin Revisited: The Jews of Today, 1904–1994Sergio DellaPergola 4. A Tradition of Invention: Family and Educational Institutions among Contemporary Traditionalizing JewsHarvey E. Goldberg Part II. European and North American Variations 5. National Contexts, Eastern European Immigrants, and Jewish Identity: A Comparative AnalysisPaula E. Hyman 6. British Jews or Britons of the Jewish Persuasion? The Religious Constraints of Civic FreedomGeoffrey Alderman 7. Reluctant Cosmopolitans: The Impact of Continentalism, Multiculturalism, and Globalization on Jewish Identity in CanadaStuart Schoenfeld 8. From Commandment to Persuasion: Probing the "Hard" Secularism of American JewryHenry L. Feingold 9. Family Economy/Family Relations: The Development of American Jewish Ethnicity in the Early Twentieth CenturyRiv-Ellen Prell Part III. Regional Variations in the United States 10. Inventing Jewish Identity in California: Shlomo Bardin, Zionism, and the Brandeis Camp InstituteDeborah Dash Moore 11. Jewishness in New York: Exception or the Rule?Bethamie Horowitz Part IV. The Israeli Difference 12. From Individuality to Identity: Directions in the Thought of J. B. Soloveitchik and Eliezer SchweidJonathan Cohen 13. Patterns of Jewish Identity Among Israeli Youth and Implications for Teaching of Jewish SourcesAsher Shkedi 14. A Social Constructivist Approach to Jewish IdentityGabriel Horencyzk and Zvi Bekerman 15. Jewish and Other National and Ethnic Identities of Israeli JewsStephen Sharot Index