Jewry Between Tradition and Secularism : Europe and Israel Compared.
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- Jewish Identities in a Changing World Series ; v.6 .
- Jewish Identities in a Changing World Series .
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- PREFACE Judaism and the Culture of Memory -- INTRODUCTION European Jewry and Klal Yisrael -- PART I CONTEMPORARY PRACTICES -- CHAPTER ONE Is the French Model in Decline? -- CHAPTER TWO The Case of Belgium -- CHAPTER THREE The Identity of Dutch Jews -- CHAPTER FOUR Russian-Jewish Immigration to Germany -- CHAPTER FIVE Religiosity, Praxis and Tradition in Contemporary Hungarian Jewry -- CHAPTER SIX Being Jewish in Romania after the Second World War -- CHAPTER SEVEN Jewish Identity, Memory and Anti-Semitism -- PART II JEWRY BEYOND EUROPE -- CHAPTER EIGHT The Siamese Twins-Religion and Secularism in Jewish National Thought -- CHAPTER NINE Israeli Identity and Mission in Buber's Thought -- CHAPTER TEN Sovereignty, Voluntarism and Jewish Identity-Nathan Rotenstreich -- CHAPTER ELEVEN On Religious-Secular Tensions -- CHAPTER TWELVE The Religious-Secular Cleavage in Contemporary Israel -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN On European Jewish Orthodoxy, Sephardic Tradition and the Shas Movement -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN Ultra-Orthodox, Orthodox, and Secular Women in College -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Challenge of Secularism to Jewish Survival in Abba Hillel Silver's Thinking -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Identities of Jewish American Women -- PART III IDENTITY, SINGULARITY, CONFLICT, AND COOPERATION -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Jews and Secularization: A Challenge or a Prospect? -- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Submission and Subversion before the Law -- CHAPTER NINETEEN Tradition of Diaspora and Political Reality of the State of Israel -- CHAPTER TWENTY The Diaspora Museum and Israeli-Jewish Identity -- CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE The Jewish Transnational Community and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem -- EPILOGUE -- CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Contemporary Dilemmas of Identity: Israel and the Diaspora. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Was the Shoah the "Sanctification of God"? -- Bibliography -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Names.
Are Jews today still the carriers of a single, distinctive collective identity and do they still constitute a single people? This is the leading question of this comparison between European and Israeli jewries.
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Jews -- Europe -- Identity. Jews -- Israel -- Identity. Judaism -- Europe. Judaism -- Israel. Orthodox Judaism -- Relations -- Nontraditional Jews -- Israel. Secularism -- Israel. Judaism and secularism.