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Is Israel One?
Religion, Nationalism, and Multiculturalism Confounded
Av Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Yochanan Peres
Inbunden, 2005
3078 kr
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This book delves into Israeli society where internal divides have emerged from divergent value systems in a context of powerful globalization, immigrant–society behavior, and a sharp majority–minority division. A short but hectic experience, Jewish nationalism draws its vitality from reformulations …
Identities in an Era of Globalization and Multiculturalism
Latin America in the Jewish World
Av Judit Bokser Liwerant, Eliezer Ben-Rafael m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
3339 kr
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This volume addresses key conceptual issues and case studies dealing with contemporary Jewish identities amidst globalization processes, with special emphasis on Latin American socio-political, communal, and cultural milieu.The book brings together a variety of disciplinary and theoretical …
Jewish Subjects and Their Tribal Chieftains in Kurdistan
A Study in Survival
Inbunden, 2007
3050 kr
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Based on new oral sources, carefully analyzed, this book explores the relationships between Jewish subjects and their tribal chieftains in Kurdistan, focusing on the patronage and justice provided by the chieftains and the financial support provided by the Jews to endure troubles and caprices of …
Lure of Anti-Semitism
Hatred of Jews in Present-Day France
Inbunden, 2007
1201 kr
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Since the beginning of the 21st century France has seen the return of anti-Semitism with attacks, desecration of cemeteries, insults, and threats. This book is the outcome of a survey carried out by Michel Wieviorka along with a dozen sociologists. He examines different tracks: the possible links …
Place of the Mediterranean in Modern Israeli Identity
Inbunden, 2009
2413 kr
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While early Zionists envisioned the Jewish state as an outpost of Europe in the Middle East, modern Israel is—geographically speaking—located in Asia and incorporates elements from both “Orient and Occident.” This book sheds light on how the Mediterranean region, its history, traditions, climate, …
Argentine Jews or Jewish Argentines?
Essays on Ethnicity, Identity, and Diaspora
Av Raanan Rein
Inbunden, 2010
2476 kr
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The essays gathered here challenge essentialist concepts and overemphasis on Jewish particularity, as well as the common discourse of Jewish victimology. At the same time, they reveal how the Jews, like other ethnic groups, are not monolithic but fragmented by place of origin, social class, …
American Israelis
Migration, Transnationalism, and Diasporic Identity
Inbunden, 2010
2221 kr
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This book is a scientific and comprehensive analysis of Israelis who live in the United States. Using different complementary sources of data, and through cutting-edge approaches in the social sciences, this volume examines the settlement patterns of the Israeli immigrants, their social profile, …
Place of the Mediterranean in Modern Israeli Identity (paperback)
Häftad, 2010
1214 kr
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While early Zionists envisioned the Jewish state as an outpost of Europe in the Middle East, modern Israel is—geographically speaking—located in Asia and incorporates elements from both “Orient and Occident.” This book sheds light on how the Mediterranean region, its history, traditions, climate, …
Politics and Resentment
Antisemitism and Counter-Cosmopolitanism in the European Union
Av Lars Rensmann, Julius H. Schoeps
Inbunden, 2010
3326 kr
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Democratic polities continue to be faced with politics of resentment. Along with resurgent counter-cosmopolitanism and anti-immigrant prejudice, various political agents have mobilized old and modernized antisemitism in European democracies. The first comparative study of its kind, this book …
Stranger at Hand
Antisemitic Prejudices in Post-Communist Hungary
Inbunden, 2010
2244 kr
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In 2010 an extremist party with openly racist views, using barely concealed antisemitic language, received 17% of the votes in the parliamentary elections in Hungary. How can this awkward development in a newly established European democracy be explained? In this book the author examines …
Is Israel One?
Religion, Nationalism, and Multiculturalism Confounded
Av Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Yochanan Peres
Häftad, 2010
1045 kr
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This book delves into Israeli society where internal divides have emerged from divergent value systems in a context of powerful globalization, immigrant–society behavior, and a sharp majority–minority division. A short but hectic experience, Jewish nationalism draws its vitality from reformulations …
From Binational Society to Jewish State (paperback)
Federal Concepts in Zionist Political Thought, 1920-1990, and the Jewish People
Av Yosef Gorny
Häftad, 2010
1143 kr
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The central issue in this book is the federal ideas in the Zionist political thought during seventy years, from the early 1920s to the late 1990s. These ideas and plans had a double meaning and purpose: to find a suitable political bi-national structure for the Jews and Arabs in Palestine, which …
Identities in an Era of Globalization and Multiculturalism (paperback)
Latin America in the Jewish World
Av Judit Bokser Liwerant, Eliezer Ben-Rafael m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
1214 kr
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This volume addresses key conceptual issues and case studies dealing with contemporary Jewish identities amidst globalization processes, with special emphasis on Latin American socio-political, communal, and cultural milieu.The book brings together a variety of disciplinary and theoretical …
Jews and Jewish Education in Germany Today
Av Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Olaf Glöckner m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
2844 kr
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Since their recent dispersion from the former Soviet Union, Russian-speaking Jews (RSJ) have become the vast majority of Germany’s longstanding Jewry. An entity marked by permeable boundaries, they show a solidarity and commitment to world Jewry, including Israel, but feeble identification with …
Road to Nowhere?
Jewish Experiences in Unifying Europe
Av Julius H. Schoeps, Olaf Glöckner
Inbunden, 2011
3104 kr
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Europe is in the midst of a rapid political and economic unification. What does this mean for the Jewish minority – numbering less than 2 million people and still suffering from the aftermath of the Shoah? Will the Jewish communities participate in Europe’s bold venture without risking total …
Jews of France Today
Identity and Values
Inbunden, 2011
2374 kr
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Recent nation-wide surveys of the Jews of France yielded a detailed picture of this community, one of the largest Jewish Diaspora populations, with a long and rich history. This book presents results and analyses of this survey for the first time in English. Key issues explored include …
Contemporary Jewries: Convergence and Divergence
Av Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Yosef Gorny m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
755 kr
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This is a book about Klal Yisrael, the worldwide commonwealth of the Jewish people. The main question asked, is whether one can still speak of 'one' Jewish people, encompassing all Jews in the world.The Jewish collective identity stands at new crossroads of multicultural ideologies and …
Explorations in Jewish Historical Experience
The Civilizational Dimension
Häftad, 2012
794 kr
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This volume brings together several of Prof. S.N. Eisenstadt's essays written over the years on Jewish history and identity.The major argument of the essays follows the Weberian view of Jewish historical experience as that of a distinct civilization, as a distinct Great Religion, the first …
Survival Through Integration
American Reform Jewish Universalism and the Holocaust
Av Ofer Shiff
Häftad, 2012
755 kr
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The book focuses on the most prominent exponents of the universalistic ideology of American Reform Judaism in the 1930s and 1940s. Those who attempted to maintain unquestioning fealty to the principles of universalistic Reform, even in view of the disheartening realities of the Holocaust, are the …
Jewry between Tradition and Secularism
Europe and Israel Compared
Av Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Yosef Gorny m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
771 kr
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Are Jews today still the carriers of a single and identical collective identity and do they still constitute a single people? This two-fold question arises when one compares a Hassidi Habad from Brooklyn, a Jewish professor at a secular university in Brussels, a traditional Yemeni Jew still living …
Young Men in Israeli Haredi Yeshiva Education
The Scholars’ Enclave in Unrest
Av Yohai Hakak
Inbunden, 2012
2134 kr
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By looking at the case of Lithuanian yeshivas in Israel, Yohai Hakak’s book explores the internal tensions and dynamics of religious orders during a stage of a relative ‘loss of charisma’, in which the enthusiasm of the founding generation has diminished. It is the first study to include …
Between Feminism and Orthodox Judaism
Resistance, Identity, and Religious Change in Israel
Inbunden, 2012
2244 kr
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In Between Feminism and Orthodox Judaism, Yael Israel-Cohen offers an analysis of the activism and identity of women considered at the forefront of the feminist challenge to Orthodoxy. Through a look at women’s battle over synagogue ritual and the ordination of women rabbis, an intricate and …
American Israelis (paperback)
Migration, Transnationalism, and Diasporic Identity
Häftad, 2013
831 kr
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This book is a scientific and comprehensive analysis of Israelis who live in the United States. Using different complementary sources of data, and through cutting-edge approaches in the social sciences, this volume examines the settlement patterns of the Israeli immigrants, their social profile, …
Road to Nowhere? (paperback)
Jewish Experiences in Unifying Europe
Av Julius H. Schoeps, Olaf Glöckner
Häftad, 2013
831 kr
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Europe is in the midst of a rapid political and economic unification. What does this mean for the Jewish minority – numbering less than 2 million people and still suffering from the aftermath of the Shoah? Will the Jewish communities participate in Europe’s bold venture without risking total …
Jews and Jewish Education in Germany Today
Av Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Olaf Glöckner m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
849 kr
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Since their recent dispersion from the former Soviet Union, Russian-speaking Jews (RSJ) have become the vast majority of Germany’s longstanding Jewry. An entity marked by permeable boundaries, they show a solidarity and commitment to world Jewry, including Israel, but feeble identification with …
Stranger at Hand (paperback)
Antisemitic Prejudices in Post-Communist Hungary
Häftad, 2013
823 kr
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In 2010 an extremist party with openly racist views, using barely concealed antisemitic language, received 17% of the votes in the parliamentary elections in Hungary. How can this awkward development in a newly established European democracy be explained? In this book the author examines …
Confronting Allosemitism in Europe
The Case of Belgian Jews
Inbunden, 2014
2192 kr
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Only a few decades after the Holocaust, Belgian Jews, like most European Jewries, are under the attack of forces stemming from a variety of sources. How do they confront and stand these new hardships? Research done all over Europe from 2012 through 2013 tried to answer this question. Among the …
Reconsidering Israel-Diaspora Relations
Av Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Judit Bokser Liwerant m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
3665 kr
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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 …
Postwar Jewish Displacement and Rebirth
1945-1967
Av Françoise S. Ouzan, Manfred Gerstenfeld
Inbunden, 2014
2351 kr
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This volume offers insights into the major Jewish migration movements and rebuilding of European Jewish communities in the mid-twentieth century. Its chapters illustrate many facets of the Jews’ often traumatic post-war experiences. People had to find their way when returning to their countries of …
Jewish Youth around the World, 1990-2010
Social Identity and Values in a Comparative Approach
Inbunden, 2014
2476 kr
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In Jewish Youth around the World 1990-2010: Social Identity and Values, Erik Cohen offers a rich and multi-faceted picture of Jewish adolescents and young adults today. Based on numerous empirical studies conducted by the author over the course of two decades among various populations in Israel and …
