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2011
Jewish education is widely perceived as one of the major means for strengthening Jewish identity and identification. We examine this basic assumption and propose a conceptualization and mapping of the Jewish Identity Space as a tool for better understanding, exploring, and applying aspects related to the relationship between Jewish education and Jewish
Gabriel Horenczyk, Hagit Hacohen Wolf
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Jewish education is widely perceived as one of the major means for strengthening Jewish identity and identification. We examine this basic assumption and propose a conceptualization and mapping of the Jewish Identity Space as a tool for better understanding, exploring, and applying aspects related to the relationship between Jewish education and Jewish
Gabriel Horenczyk, Hagit Hacohen Wolf
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Jewish Youths and Jewish Identity
2010The debate over Jewish identity and the definition of who is a Jew has been ongoing for many years. Much has been written regarding Jewish identity, and there are a variety of conceptions of identity and identification.1 For sociologist Michael A. Meyer, Jewish identity falls into three basic categories.2 His work aims to explicate a dynamic of Jewish ...
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2005
Abstract In 2000 there were approximately 13 million Jews living in the world, with the vast majority in Israel (approximately 5 million) and the United States (approximately 5.5 million). My goal in this chapter is to compare the ways that Jews in these two major centres of world Jewry construct their Jewish identities.
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Abstract In 2000 there were approximately 13 million Jews living in the world, with the vast majority in Israel (approximately 5 million) and the United States (approximately 5.5 million). My goal in this chapter is to compare the ways that Jews in these two major centres of world Jewry construct their Jewish identities.
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Jewish Identities in the Holocaust: Martyrdom as a Representative Category
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, 2000This chapter assesses the issue of Jewish martyrdom in the Holocaust. Like other such fragments of the Holocaust, the notion of martyrdom seems to be helpful to people in their attempt to condense the Holocaust down, simplify it, and make it somehow more manageable in order to understand the totality.
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American Imago, 2005
It has sometimes been suggested that works on psychoanalysis, rather than being shelved in psychology sections in bookshops and libraries, should instead be listed under "Jewish Studies." This is not quite as whimsical as it might seem: not only have psychoanalysts often been Jewish, but those who are not Jewish are frequently thought of as if they ...
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It has sometimes been suggested that works on psychoanalysis, rather than being shelved in psychology sections in bookshops and libraries, should instead be listed under "Jewish Studies." This is not quite as whimsical as it might seem: not only have psychoanalysts often been Jewish, but those who are not Jewish are frequently thought of as if they ...
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The Invention of Jewish Identity
2010The intertwined goals of this ambitious monograph by Hughes (Univ. of Buffalo-SUNY) are expressed in the work's full title: to discern patterns that connect three discrete subjects-Bible, philosophy, and translation-and to explore their contributions to the development of Jewish identity. The author's success results largely from his creative approach,
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2007
During the last 30 or 40 years, a growing number of Jewish interpreters has been ready to acknowledge the basically Jewish character of Paul's background and teaching and to reintegrate the temporarily 'lost son' back home into their common Jewish heritage. It is most important that the tendency for rediscovering and reevaluating Paul's Jewish identity
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During the last 30 or 40 years, a growing number of Jewish interpreters has been ready to acknowledge the basically Jewish character of Paul's background and teaching and to reintegrate the temporarily 'lost son' back home into their common Jewish heritage. It is most important that the tendency for rediscovering and reevaluating Paul's Jewish identity
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Yiddish and the Jewish Identity
History Workshop Journal, 1987In 1939, out of an approximate total of 17 million Jews, there were an estimated 1012 million who spoke Yiddish. Today, out of 14 million Jews, the majority speak English and some 3 million are Hebrew speakers. It is difficult to estimate accurately the number of Yiddish speakers, but some sources suggest a total of 2 million the same number as Jews ...
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