Reconsidering Israel-Diaspora Relations.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1 Diaspora-Israel: Continuities versus Discontinuities -- Chapter 1 Jewish Peoplehood: Hard, Soft, and Interactive Markers -- Chapter 2 From World-Wide People to First-World People: The Consolidation of World Jewry -- Chapter 3 The "Jewish Peoplehood" Concept: Complications and Suggestions -- Chapter 4 Ethnicity and State Policy: The State of Israel in the Intellectual and Political Discourse of the US Jewish Press -- Chapter 5 Close and Distant: The Relations between Israel and the Diaspora -- Part 2 Religiosity and Ethnicity -- Chapter 6 The Reform and Conservative Movements in Israel: Strategies of Peripheral Movements in a Monopolized Religious Market -- Chapter 7 Two Orthodox Cultures: "Centrist" Orthodoxy and Religious Zionism -- Chapter 8 Ethnicity and Transnationalism: Latino Jews in Miami -- Chapter 9 Strong Ethnicity: The Case of US-born Jews in Israel -- Part 3 Gender and Generation -- Chapter 10 Orthodox Jewish Women as a Bridge Between Israel and the Diaspora -- Chapter 11 Gender, Religion, and the Search for a Modern Jewish Identity in "La rabina" by Silvia Plager -- Chapter 12 Global Jewish Youth Studies-Towards a Theory -- Chapter 13 Generational and Cultural Constructions of Jewish Peoplehood -- Part 4 Israelophobia, Anti-Zionism and "Neo"-Antisemitism -- Chapter 14 Debasing Praise: Hatred of the Jews in a Global Age -- Chapter 15 Integration and Antisemitism: The Case of French Jewry -- Chapter 16 How Antisemitism, Obsessive Criticism of Israel, and Do-Gooders Complicate Jewish Life in Germany -- Chapter 17 Anti-Zionist Discourse of the Left in Latin America: An Assessment -- Chapter 18 American Jews and the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process: A Study of Diaspora in International Affairs -- Part 5 Configurations of World Jewry and the State of Israel.

Chapter 19 Jewish Diaspora and Transnationalism: Awkward (Dance) Partners? -- Chapter 20 The Dialectics of Diaspora in Contemporary Modernity -- Chapter 21 Reflections on Israel and Jerusalem as the Centers of World Jewry -- Chapter 22 Israel-Diaspora Relations: "Transmission Driving-belts" of Transnationalism -- Epilogue: One-After All. . . . for the Time Being -- Index.

Jewry today is marked by transnational competing movements and local influences, meanwhile worldwide Judeophobia and sympathy for the Palestinian cause make Israel the "Jew among nations". This volume asks: how much is the Jewish Commonwealth still pertinent to Jewry?.

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