Add to ORKGLooking to Israel to discover who we are or to remind us who we once were will not stem the rising tide of assimilation. Jewish identity is not a birthright but rather must be forged by each individual from encounters with the past and current experiences. The critical issue is not where each person lives, but rather what he or she values and does each day. Emmanuel Levinas has fixed the bound aries for any discussion of Jewish identity in the first paragraph of an essay entitled "Means of Identification, " first published in 1953. The very fact of questioning one's Jewish iden tity means it is already lost. But by the same token, it is precisely through this kind of cross-examination that one still hangs on to it. Be tween a...
The beginning of 1990 witnessed a great change in the history of Israeli society. This was the turni...
Recent decades have seen exceptional growth in research investigating the social, political, and cul...
This study explores racial, ethnic and cultural identity and the construction of community boundarie...
For many years before and after the establishment of the state of Israel, the belief that Israel is ...
That the question of identity takes on a sense of urgency, one with its own possibilities and imposs...
The objective of this research is to examine how individuals differentially perceive their Jewish id...
The drawing of boundaries has always been a key part of the Jewish tradition and has served to maint...
Jewish identities are becoming increasingly pluralised due to internal dynamics within Judaism and w...
That the question of identity takes on a sense of urgency, one with its own possibilities and imposs...
This paper examines modern Jewish messianism in the context of the pursuit and struggle for new iden...
This study explores the nature of Jewish identity and identification in contemporary American societ...
We live in a challenging period of Jewish life in America. Jewish educators are grappling with seein...
On the occasion of the death of his friend and colleague, Montague David Eder Sigmund Freud succinct...
Humanity has transmitted our histories through oral tradition since the beginning of our existence, ...
The emergence of Jewish student associations in 1881 provided a forum for Jews to openly proclaim th...
The beginning of 1990 witnessed a great change in the history of Israeli society. This was the turni...
Recent decades have seen exceptional growth in research investigating the social, political, and cul...
This study explores racial, ethnic and cultural identity and the construction of community boundarie...
For many years before and after the establishment of the state of Israel, the belief that Israel is ...
That the question of identity takes on a sense of urgency, one with its own possibilities and imposs...
The objective of this research is to examine how individuals differentially perceive their Jewish id...
The drawing of boundaries has always been a key part of the Jewish tradition and has served to maint...
Jewish identities are becoming increasingly pluralised due to internal dynamics within Judaism and w...
That the question of identity takes on a sense of urgency, one with its own possibilities and imposs...
This paper examines modern Jewish messianism in the context of the pursuit and struggle for new iden...
This study explores the nature of Jewish identity and identification in contemporary American societ...
We live in a challenging period of Jewish life in America. Jewish educators are grappling with seein...
On the occasion of the death of his friend and colleague, Montague David Eder Sigmund Freud succinct...
Humanity has transmitted our histories through oral tradition since the beginning of our existence, ...
The emergence of Jewish student associations in 1881 provided a forum for Jews to openly proclaim th...
The beginning of 1990 witnessed a great change in the history of Israeli society. This was the turni...
Recent decades have seen exceptional growth in research investigating the social, political, and cul...
This study explores racial, ethnic and cultural identity and the construction of community boundarie...