Dynamic Belonging

Harvey E. Goldberg is Emeritus professor and Sarah Allen Shaine Chair in Sociology and Anthropology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has been a Visiting Lecturer at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociale and a Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.

• PrefaceIntroduction: Dynamic Jewish Identities - Insights from a Comparative ViewHarvey E. GoldbergSection I: The Fluid Nature of Jewish BelongingChapter 1. Religion, Ethnic Identity, and the Sense of BelongingStanley BrandesChapter 2. Conceptual and Pragmatic Aspects of Binarism: Examples from Israeli Society.Harvey E. GoldbergChapter 3. From Security to Insecurity: British Jewish Communal Leadership in the Context of MulticulturalismKeith Kahn-Harris and Ben GidleyChapter 4. The Jewish Question Again: From Collective Identity to Social VitalityPhilip WexlerResponse to Section I: Rethinking Categories and Challenging Futures.Marcy Brink-DananSection II: Diverse Attempts at Constructing Jewish Sub-Cultures in Israel and the United StatesChapter 5. Fundamentalist or Romantic Nationalist? Israeli Modern OrthodoxyShlomo FischerChapter 6. Jewish Identity, Gender and Religion: Masorti Women and the Feminist Challenge to Traditional Jewish IdentityYaacov YadgarChapter 7. “Israeli-Jews” vs. “Jewish-Israelis” and the Ritual Connection to Diaspora JewryEzra Kopelowitz and Lior RosenbergChapter 8. Engaging the Next Generation of American Jews: Distinguishing the In-married, Intermarried, and Non-marriedSteven M. CohenResponse to Section II. Dynamic Belongings of Younger Jews and the Transformation of the Jewish SelfRachel WerczbergerSection III. Diverse Ways of Connecting to the Jewish PeopleChapter 9. Constructing Jewish Belonging through Mass Tourism: Self-Narration in Israel Experience ProgramsShaul KelnerChapter 10. A Jewish and Democratic State? How American Jews Discuss Israel’s Identity DilemmaTheodore SassonChapter 11. In Search of Roots and Routes: The Making and Remaking of the Diasporic Jewish IdentityElan EzrachiResponse to Section III. Hummus, Challah, and Gefilte Fish: Israel in Diaspora Jewish CultureSarah Bunin BenorAfterward: “I’m a Gentile!” Border Dramas and Jewish ContinuityJack KugelmassBibliographyNotes on Contributors