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Crucified with the Brother from Galilee: Symbol of the Cross in Modernist Yiddish Imagination

Religions, 2022
The European Enlightenment witnessed a Jewish reclamation of Jesus. It led modernist Yiddish intellectuals to experiment with Christian motifs as they tried to contend with what it meant to be Jewish in the modern world. This article proposes to examine,
Freya Dasgupta
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Jewish Identity on Trial: The Case of Mordecai the Jew

Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, 2017
The book of Esther deals with issues of Jewish identity in exile. This article argues that early in the story (chapters 2 and 3) Mordecai is depicted as trying to assimilate into Persian culture before experiencing a reversal and returning to his Jewish
Ayelet Seidler
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Jews and Judaism in Norway today

Nordisk Judaistik, 2018
This address was given as part of a podium discussion on Judaism in Norway today held at the Jewish Museum in Oslo on 4 March 2018. Other participants in the panel were Rabbi Lynn Feinberg (Jewish Renewal movement), Rabbi Joav Melchior (Orthodox movement,
Tyson Herberger
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Bellow, Roth and Abraham's Navigation of the Jewish Identity: A Chronotopic Reading of the Journey to Jerusalem [PDF]

Maǧallaẗ Kulliyyaẗ Al-Adāb - Ǧāmiʿaẗ Al-Fayūm
The application of Bakhtin's Chronotope of the road to Saul Bellow's To Jerusalem and Back, Philip Roth's Operation Shylock, and Pearl Abraham's Giving Up America shows how the journey to Jerusalem structures these works' exploration of Jewish identity ...
رشاد مختار رشاد حامد
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Revival? Rebirth? Renaissance?

Nordisk Judaistik, 2020
Drawing on personal experience, the author discusses the vicissitudes of Jewish identity formation in the last two decades of Communist Poland and the first two decades which followed.
Konstanty Gebert
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A Pathologically Abnormal Situation: Le Cercle Gaston Crémieux and the [Im]Possibility of an Anti-National Jewishness

Religions, 2022
This paper examines the diasporist French Jewish political group, Le Cercle Gaston Crémieux, founded in 1967 “to promote a diasporic Jewish existence without subjugation to the synagogue or to Zionism”.
Joel Howard Swanson
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Odkrywanie żydowskiej tożsamości w powojennej Austrii na przykładzie filmu Śpiące psy Hanny Andreasa Grubera

Politeja, 2023
REDISCOVERING JEWISH IDENTITY OF POST-WAR AUSTRIA IN ANDREAS GRUBER’S HANNA’S SLEEPING DOGS The trauma of the Holocaust, despite being dismissed for many years, has profoundly shaped the identity of successive generations of Jews.
Olga Wesołowska
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DIASPORIC SECURITY AND JEWISH IDENTITY [PDF]

Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 2014
This paper explores the relationship between identity and security through an investigation into Jewish diasporic identity. The paper argues that the convention of treating identity as an objective referent of security is problematic, as the Jewish diaspora experience demonstrates.
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We Spring from that History: Bernard Lazare, between Universalism and Particularism

Religions, 2018
This paper examines the evolution of Jewish identity in the works of writer and critic Bernard Lazare. It suggests that Lazare’s oeuvre elucidates one of the central tensions in modern Jewish thought: the division between those thinkers who use the
Joel Swanson
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Religious Observance and Well-Being among Israeli Jewish Adults: Findings from the Israel Social Survey

Religions, 2013
This study reports on analyses of Jewish respondents (N = 6,056) from the 2009 Israel Social Survey. Multivariable methods were used to investigate whether religiously observant Jews have greater physical and psychological well-being.
Jeff Levin
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