Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Ph.D. (1974) in Sociology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is a Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Tel Aviv University. He is Past President of the International Institute of Sociology. His recent works include Jewish Identities (2001) and Is Israel One? (2005). His edited works include Identity, Culture and Globalization (2001), Sociology and Ideology (2003), and Comparing Modernities (2005).Yitzhak Sternberg, Ph.D. (2004) in Sociology, Tel Aviv University, teaches at the Open University, Israel. One of his main research interests is Nativism in immigrant societies. His edited works include Identity, Culture and Globalization (2001), Comparing Modernities (2005) and New Elites in Israel (2007, in Hebrew).

• PrefaceIntroduction: Debating transnationalism by Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Yitzhak SternbergI. Perspectives1. New Transnational Communities and Networks: Globalization Changes in Civilizational Frameworks by Shmuel N. Eisenstadt2. Deconstructing and reconstructing “Diaspora”: A Study in socio-historical semantics by Stéphane Dufoix3. The Diaspora and the Homeland: Reciprocities, Transformations, and Role Reversals by William Safran4. Contemporary Immigration in Comparative Perspective by Yitzhak Sternberg5. Solid, ductile and liquid: changing notions of homeland and home in diaspora studies by Robin Cohen6. The misfortunes of integration by Michel Wieviorka7. Value-orientations in Catholic, Muslim and Protestant societies by Ephraim Yuchtman-Yaar and Yasmin Alkalay8. Rethinking History From Trans-National Perspectives by David Thelen9. Across time and space: Identity and transnational diaspora by Tobie Nathan10. The transglobal network nation diaspora, homeland, and hostland by Michel S. LaguerreII. Jews as a paradigmatic space of cases11. International Migration of Jews by Sergio DellaPergola12. Chapter 12. Is the Jewish Trans-national Diaspora Still Unique? by Yosef Gorny13. American Jewry's 'Social Zion': Changes through Time by Allon Gal14. The New Russian-Jewish Diaspora in Israel and in the West: Between Integration and Transnationalism by Larissa I. RemennickAppendix: The Russian language in Israel by Marina Niznik15. Russian-Speaking Jews and Germany’s Local Jewry by Julius H. Schoeps16. Israeli and American Jews: Kinsmen Apart by Moshe Shokeid17. The Israeli Jewish Diaspora in the United States: Socio-cultural Mobility and Attachment to Homeland by Uzi Rebhun18. “Majority Societies” in Jewish Diasporas: Latin American Experiences by Haim Avni19. Latin American Jews: A Transnational Diaspora by Judit Bokser Liwerant20. A Reexamination of the Main Theoretical Approaches to the Study of Diasporas and their Applicability to the Jewish Diaspora by Gabriel ShefferIII. Worldwide dynamics21. The linguistic landscape of transnationalism: The divided heart of Europe by Miriam Ben-Rafael and Eliezer Ben-Rafael22. Muslim transnationalism and diaspora in Europe: migrant experience and theoretical reflection by Nina Clara TieslerAppendix: Jews and Moslems in Contemporary France by Roland Goetschel23. Roman Catholicism and the challenge of globalization by Danièle Hervieu-Léger24. Accidental Diasporas and External “Homelands” in Central and Eastern Europe: Past and Present by Rogers Brubaker25. Marginality Reconstructed: Sub-National and Trans-National Identities in the Wake of International Migration and Tourism by Victor Azarya26. Civil Society in the United States. From Pluralism to Multiculturalism and Fragmentation into Diasporas? by Richard Münch27. Issues of Identity in the Indian Diaspora: A Transnational Perspective by Ajaya Kumar Sahoo28. Negotiating Gender Ideologies and Identities: PRC Chinese Women as Transnational Migrants in Global-City Singapore by Brenda S.A. Yeoh and Natalie Yap29. Immigrant Transnational Organizations and Development: A Comparative Study by Alejandro Portes, Cristina Escobar and Alexandria Walton Radford30. Black Zionism — The Return to Africa in Theory and Practice by Benyamin Neuberger31. The Case of Ex-Soviet Scientists by Maria N. Yelenevskaya and Larisa FialkovaIV. Comparing and concluding32. Multiple transnationalisms: Moslems, Africans, Chinese and Hispanics by Eliezer Ben-RafaelEpilogue: Chaos and Gestalt by Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Yitzhak SternbergList of ContributorsBibilographyIndex