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Ethnicity and Beyond - Theories and Dilemmas of Jewish Group Demarcation (Hardcover)
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Ethnicity and Beyond - Theories and Dilemmas of Jewish Group Demarcation (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Contemporary Jewry, 25
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Volume XXV of the distinguished annual Studies in Contemporary
Jewry explores new understandings and approaches to Jewish
"ethnicity." In current parlance regarding multicultural diversity,
Jews are often considered to belong socially to the "majority,"
whereas "otherness" is reserved for "minorities." But these group
labels and their meanings have changed over time. This volume
analyzes how "ethnic," "ethnicity," and "identity" have been
applied to Jews, past and present, individually and collectively.
Most of the symposium papers on the ethnicity of Jewish people and
the social groups they form draw heavily on the case of American
Jews, while others offer wider geographical perspectives.
Contributors address ex-Soviet Jews in Philadelphia, comparing them
to a similar population in Tel Aviv; Communism and ethnicity;
intermarriage and group blending; American Jewish dialogue; and
German Jewish migration in the interwar decades. Leading academics,
employing a variety of social scientific methods and historical
paradigms, propose to enhance the clarity of definitions used to
relate "ethnic identity" to the Jews. They point to ethnic
experience in a variety of different social manifestations:
language use in social context, marital behavior across
generations, spatial and occupational differentiation in relation
to other members of society, and new immigrant communities as
sub-ethnic units within larger Jewish populations. They also ponder
the relevance of individual experience and preference as compared
to the weight of larger socializing factors.
Taken as a whole, this work offers revisionist views on the utility
of terms like "Jewish ethnicity" that were given wider scope by
scholars in the 1960s, '70s, and '80s.
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