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Against the gloomy forecast of "The Vanishing Diaspora", the end of
the second millennium saw the global emergence of a dazzling array
of Jewish cultural initiatives, institutional modalities, and
individual practices. These "Jewish Revival" and "Jewish Renewal"
projects are led by Jewish NGOs and philanthropic organizations,
the Orthodox Teshuva (return to the fold) movement and its
well-known emissary Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidism, and alternative
cultural initiatives that promote what can be termed "lifestyle
Judaism." This range between institutionalized revival movements
and ephemeral event-driven projects circumscribes a diverse space
of creative agency, which calls for a bottom-up empirical analysis
of cultural creativity and the re-invention of Jewish tradition
worldwide. Indeed, the trope of a "Jewish Renaissance" has become
both a descriptive category of an increasingly popular and
scholarly discourse across the globe, and a prescriptive model for
social action. This volume explores the global transformations of
contemporary Jewishness, which give renewed meaning to identity,
tradition, and politics in our post secular world.
In this book, Rachel Werczberger takes stock of the Jewish New Age
spirituality scene in Israel at the turn of the millennium. Led by
highly charismatic rabbis, the Hamakom and Bayit Chadash
communities attempted to bring about a Jewish spiritual renewal by
integrating Jewish tradition - especially Kabbalah and Hasidism -
with New Age spirituality. Having spent over two years in field
research, Werczberger presents a comprehensive ethnographic account
of these two groups, examining their rise and fall after only six
years of activity. At the core of their aspiration for Jewish
spiritual renewal, claims Werczberger, was the quest for
authenticity. She investigates the ways in which the language of
authenticity was embraced by the members of the communities in
their construction of a new spiritual Jewish identity, their
re-invention of Jewish rituals, and their failed attempt at
constructing community. She concludes that all these elements point
to the dual form of politics of authenticity and identity with
which the Israeli Jewish New Age is involved.
Against the gloomy forecast of "The Vanishing Diaspora", the end of
the second millennium saw the global emergence of a dazzling array
of Jewish cultural initiatives, institutional modalities, and
individual practices. These "Jewish Revival" and "Jewish Renewal"
projects are led by Jewish NGOs and philanthropic organizations,
the Orthodox Teshuva (return to the fold) movement and its
well-known emissary Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidism, and alternative
cultural initiatives that promote what can be termed "lifestyle
Judaism." This range between institutionalized revival movements
and ephemeral event-driven projects circumscribes a diverse space
of creative agency, which calls for a bottom-up empirical analysis
of cultural creativity and the re-invention of Jewish tradition
worldwide. Indeed, the trope of a "Jewish Renaissance" has become
both a descriptive category of an increasingly popular and
scholarly discourse across the globe, and a prescriptive model for
social action. This volume explores the global transformations of
contemporary Jewishness, which give renewed meaning to identity,
tradition, and politics in our post secular world.
In this book, Rachel Werczberger takes stock of the Jewish New Age
spirituality scene in Israel at the turn of the millennium. Led by
highly charismatic rabbis, the Hamakom and Bayit Chadash
communities attempted to bring about a Jewish spiritual renewal by
integrating Jewish tradition - especially Kabbalah and Hasidism -
with New Age spirituality. Having spent over two years in field
research, Werczberger presents a comprehensive ethnographic account
of these two groups, examining their rise and fall after only six
years of activity. At the core of their aspiration for Jewish
spiritual renewal, claims Werczberger, was the quest for
authenticity. She investigates the ways in which the language of
authenticity was embraced by the members of the communities in
their construction of a new spiritual Jewish identity, their
re-invention of Jewish rituals, and their failed attempt at
constructing community. She concludes that all these elements point
to the dual form of politics of authenticity and identity with
which the Israeli Jewish New Age is involved.
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