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Studying the Jewish Future (Hardcover)
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Studying the Jewish Future (Hardcover)
Series: Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies
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Studying the Jewish Future explores the power of Jewish culture and
assesses the perceived threats to the coherence and size of Jewish
communities in the United States, Europe, and Israel. In an
unconventional and provocative argument, Calvin Goldscheider
departs from the limiting vision of the demographic projections
that have shaped predictions about the health and future of Jewish
communities and asserts that "the quality of Jewish life has become
the key to the future of Jewish communities." Through the lens of
individual biographies, Goldscheider shows how context shapes
Jewish senses of the future and how conceptions of the future are
shaped and altered by life experiences. Goldscheider's distinctive
comparative approach includes a critical review of population
issues, a consideration of biographies as a basis for understanding
Jewish values, and an analysis of biblical texts for studying
contemporary values. He combines demographic and sociological
analyses in historical and comparative perspectives to dispel the
notion that quantitative issues are at the heart of the challenge
of Jewish continuity in the future. Numbers are clearly the
building blocks of community. But the interpretations of these
demographic issues are often confusing and biased by ideological
preconceptions. As a basis for studying the core themes of the
Jewish future, "hard facts" are less "hard" and less "factual" than
interpreters have made them out to be. Population projections are
limited by the vision of those who prepare them. Goldscheider
concludes that the futures of Jewish communities--in America,
Europe, and Israel--are much more secure than has been presented in
most scholarly and popular publications, and discussions about the
Jewish future should shift to other patterns of distinctiveness.
This book will appeal to the general Jewish reader as well as to
social scientists and modern Jewish historians. It is appropriate
for Jewish studies courses, particularly, but not exclusively,
those focusing on Jews in the United States, the American Jewish
community, and modern Jewish society, and in courses on ethnicity,
multiculturalism, cultural diversity, and ethnic relations.
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