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Diaspora Disneys: ‘Jewface’ Minstrelsy and ‘Jewfaçade’ Display in East-Central Europe and Eurasia
Author(s): Salamensky, S. I.
Editor(s): Nahshon, Edna
Date: 2012
Topics: Jewish Culture, Jewish Heritage, Theatre, Main Topic: Culture and Heritage, Attitudes to Jews
From Purimspiel to Polish Masquerade: Performing Jewish Memory in Tykocin
Author(s): Sion, Brigitte
Editor(s): Nahshon, Edna
Date: 2012
Topics: Jewish Culture, Jewish Heritage, Theatre, Main Topic: Culture and Heritage
Ethnozentrismus und Antisemitismus bei Jugendlichen mit Migrationshintergrund. Erscheinungsformen und pädagogische Praxis in der Einwanderungsgesellschaft
Translated Title: Ethnocentrism and anti-Semitism among young people with a migration background. Manifestations and educational practice in immigrant society
Editor(s): Greuel, Frank; Glaser, Michaela
Date: 2012
Topics: Antisemitism: Muslim, Antisemitism: Education against, Immigration, Antisemitism: Far right, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Nationalism, Youth, Social Work
Abstract: Die Publikation wendet sich antisemitischen und ethnozentristischen Einstellungen in der Einwanderungsgesellschaft zu: Im ersten Teil wird der Forschungsstand zu Ethnozentrismus und Antisemitismus bei Jugendlichen mit Migrationshintergrund vorgestellt. Der zweite Teil der Veröffentlichung widmet sich antisemitischen Konstruktionen bei muslimischen Jugendlichen, Ethnozentrismus bei Aussiedlerjugendlichen und der nationalistischen türkischen Bewegung der "Grauen Wölfe". Ein abschließender Teil thematisiert die pädagogisch-präventive Praxis mit der jugendlichen Zielgruppe anhand konkreter Projektbeispiele.
The Limmud International Study: Jewish Learning Communities on a Global Scale
Author(s): Cohen, Steven M.; Kopelowitz, Ezra
Date: 2012
Topics: Jewish Education, Jewish Identity, Evaluation, Limmud, Main Topic: Education, Jewish Organisations, Surveys, Volunteering
Abstract: 1. Limmud has grown from a UK initiative reaching 80 participants per year to an
international movement reaching over 30,000 individuals annually.
2. Limmud is a story of success and diversity, impacting on individuals’ Jewish
learning, Jewish identity, Jewish involvement and leadership.
3. More than 3,000 respondents from 49 Limmud locations around the world
answered an internet survey.
4. At least 60% in all country groupings have been to a non-Limmud Jewish
learning event since attending a Limmud group event.
5. Up to 24% of all respondents have set up a new Jewish initiative, group or
organisation since first participating in Limmud.
6. Learning is cited as the primary motivation for attending Limmud, more than for
social reasons.
7. The vast majority of all respondents are very satisfied with their Limmud
experience and are very likely to recommend it.
8. The majority of Limmudniks state that Limmud has had a positive impact on
their lives, particularly in the areas of Jewish learning, sense of Jewish identity
and connection to other Jews.
9. Many respondents acknowledged the importance of Limmud as a way of
connecting to the global Jewish world. Limmud helps to build a sense of
peoplehood.
10. Many respondents acknowledged the importance of Limmud events as nondenominational and greatly diverse.
Holocaust Memorial Days in the OSCE Region: An Overview of Good Governmental Practices (2012)
Date: 2012
Topics: Holocaust Commemoration, Holocaust Memorials, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Roma
Abstract:
Eastern European Jewish Studies: The Past Thirty Years
Author(s): Wodziński, Marcin
Date: 2012
Topics: Jewish Studies, Universities / Higher Education, Main Topic: Other, Diaspora, Israel-Diaspora Relations
Abstract: This study, based on quantitative analysis of several bibliometric datasets, examines the position of East European Jewish studies. It is argued here that the number of studies on East European Jewry, as exemplified by the datasets analyzed here, is not proportional to its demographic, sociopolitical, or cultural position in history. The proportion seems rather to replicate the mental maps of “centrality” and “marginality” in the contemporary world, with Israel as an important exception. It is further suggested that power relations between centers and peripheries of academic Jewish studies go along the lines of the more general mechanisms of systemic inequity in academia, for which geography and social diversity, together with gender, are the primary and best recognized factors of underrepresentation. The underrepresentation of Eastern Europe is even more transparent when viewed through the map of the geographical origin of the scholarship. Most high-profile scholarship is produced in North America and Israel, while the number of contributions coming from Eastern Europe is negligible. This is surprising when confronted with the apparent boom of Jewish studies in several countries of the region. The sample material analyzed here suggests the existence of self-limiting East European practices which create alternative local circulations for publications produced and distributed there that never merge into a wider international exchange of knowledge.
Linker antiisraelischer Antisemitismus als Antijudaismus: Eine quantitative Studie
Translated Title: Left-wing anti-Israel antisemitism as anti-Judaism: A quantitative study
Author(s): Imhoff, Maximilian Elias
Date: 2012
Topics: Antisemitism: Attitude Surveys, Antisemitism: Israel-Related, Antisemitism: Left-Wing, Main Topic: Antisemitism
Abstract: Die quantitative Studie prüft die Ursachen, Ausbreitung und Beschaffenheit des linken Antisemitismus und soll einen Grundstein für eine quantitative Untersuchung des Antisemitismus in der Partei DIE LINKE legen. Die Stichprobe umfasst 187 Fragebögen. Antisemitismus ist operationalisiert als Israelkritik, die sich antisemitischer Ressentiments bedient. Da antisemitische Israelkritik mit antijüdischen Äußerungen zusammenhängt, plädiert der Studienautor dafür, antisemitische Israelkritik bereits als eine Form des Antisemitismus anzuerkennen und nicht nur als »Grauzone« (Ullrich/Werner ZfP 58, 4). Diese Form ähnelt dabei dem Antijudaismus. Die Ergebnisse geben der Vermutung von Salzborn und Voigt (ZfP 58, 3) recht, Antisemitismus vor allem im antiimperialistischen und orthodox-kommunistischen Spektrum zu verorten. Antiisraelischer Antisemitismus ist Teil der Palästina-Solidarität und einer flachen und »völkischen« Kapitalismuskritik. Nur eine Minderheit von 12% verfällt in einen antiisraelischen Antisemitismus. Hinzu kommen 19%, die sich von antisemitischen Ressentiments nicht klar abgrenzen können.
Variations on a Theme The Jewish ‘Other' in Old and New Antisemitic Media Discourses in Hungary in the 1940s and in 2011
Author(s): Kovács, András; Szilágyi, Anna
Editor(s): Wodak, Ruth; Richardson, John E.
Date: 2012
Topics: Antisemitism, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Politics
Abstract: Shortly after the electoral success of Haider's Freedom Party in Austria, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Vienna with placards bearing the slogan ‘Only their faces change!’ And above the text there were pictures of Hitler, Haider and Milosevic. The message was clear: with the electoral success and increased parliamentary presence of the parties of the far right—political formations whose ideological base is rooted in extreme nationalism, racism, xenophobia, a loathing of democracy and a fanatical wish for a strong state—the spectre of fascism reappeared in Europe.
“Calculated Ambivalence” and Holocaust Denial in Austria
Author(s): Engel, Jakob; Wodak, Ruth
Editor(s): Wodak, Ruth; Richardson, John E.
Date: 2012
Topics: Antisemitism, Holocaust Denial, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial
Abstract: At the “zero hour” of 1945, as they emerged from the ruins of World War II, the ruling élites of what would become Austria's Second Republic were preoccupied with how to cope with the frequently contradictory demands they faced. This included Allied forces that demanded a comprehensive denazification process, a war-weary population that had survived the bombings, displaced persons and survivors of camps returning to their homes and expecting compensation, former Nazis expecting integration, and former Wehrmacht soldiers who also expected to have their sacrifices recognised. Continuities with National Socialism or Austrian fascism (between 1934 and 1938) were (officially) renounced, and the “new” Austrian government announced the rebirth of an Austrian Republic that was morally unburdened by past events or experiences (see Reisigl 2007; Wodak & De Cillia 2007). The first part of the so-called Moscow Declaration of 1943, in which the Allied forces had declared Austria to have been the “first victim of Nazi aggression,” supported this hegemonic narrative (Rathkolb 2009). This definition remained essentially unchallenged until the election of Kurt Wald-heim, a former SA officer, to the Austrian presidency in 1986 (see Wodak et al. 1990; Mitten 1992). The second part of the Moscow Declaration—namely that Austrians were also responsible for Nazi war crimes—was usually swept under the carpet.
"Wann haben wir die erste Rabbiner?": jüdische Studien als Wissenschaft und als Politikum - Erfahrungen aus Deutschland und Perspektiven für die Schweiz
Translated Title: "When will we have the first rabbis?": Jewish studies as a science and as a political issue - experiences from Germany and prospects for Switzerland
Author(s): Bodenheimer, Alfred
Editor(s): Pfleiderer, Georg; Heit, Alexander
Date: 2012
Topics: Jewish Education, Jewish Studies, Main Topic: Education, Rabbis
Підтримка З Боку Закордонних Благодійних Організацій Як Чинник Розвитку Єврейської Громади України: 2010–2011 Рр
Translated Title: Support From Foreign Charitable Organizations As A Factor Development of the Jewish Community of Ukraine: 2010–2011
Author(s): Козерод, O. B.
Date: 2012
Topics: Charity / Tzedakah, Jewish Organisations, Jewish Community, Main Topic: Other, NGOs
Abstract: Стаття Козерода Олега Віталійовича є першим комплексним дослідженням, присвяченим історії та сучасності
допомоги українським євреям з боку західних благодійних організацій. Стаття містить аналіз характерних рис та
процесу організації благодійної допомоги євреям України у 2010–1011 роках. У підсумку сформульовано основні
висновки щодо ролі «зовнішнього чинника» у розвитку сучасної єврейської громади України
Retoryka antyizraelska i antysemicka w polskim dyskursie publicznym na przykładzie postaw wobec wycieczek izraelskiej młodzieży
Translated Title: Anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic rhetoric in Polish public discourse on the example of attitudes towards Israeli youth tours
Author(s): Haska, Agnieszka; Winiewski, Mikołaj
Date: 2012
Topics: Antisemitism, Attitudes to Israel, Attitudes to Jews, Israel Criticism, Educational Tours, Holocaust Commemoration, Main Topic: Antisemitism
"Im Grunde genommen sollten wir schweigen..." Jüdische Studien ohne Antisemitismus - Antisemitismusforschung ohne Juden?
Translated Title: "Basically, we should be silent..." Jewish studies without anti-Semitism - research on anti-Semitism without Jews?
Author(s): Botsch, Gideon; Kopke, Christoph
Editor(s): Diekmann, Irene A.; Botsch, Gideon
Date: 2012
Topics: Antisemitism, Jewish Studies, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Universities / Higher Education
Interpreting Jewish – non-Jewish relations in two biographic narratives
Author(s): Vrzgulová, Monika
Editor(s): Vrzgulová, Monika; Hlavnika, J
Date: 2012
Topics: Jewish - Non - Jewish Relations, Holocaust Survivors, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Oral History and Biography, Narrative
The Circumcision Crisis: Challenges for European and World Jewry
Author(s): Maimon, Dov; Ellis, Nadia
Date: 2012
Topics: Circumcision / Brit Milah, Main Topic: Other, Law
Abstract: A new report by the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI) concludes that an immediate, coordinated Jewish – including Israeli – response is needed to thwart the possible implications of recent attempts to ban circumcision and limit other Jewish practices in Western Europe. JPPI characterizes the German court’s decision against circumcision as a “historic ruling” that might threaten the future thriving of Jewish communities across the continent. JPPI recommends that Jewish leaders and communities avoid a timid response to the current crisis. “In a world that is becoming juridically globalized, and in which every legal precedent counts,” the authors of the new report write, “we must consider whether Jewish and Israeli policy makers should begin to coordinate a comprehensive professional response.”

The report explains the drivers and trends likely to affect the lives of the 1.3 million Jews living in Europe today. While recent moves against religious practices have apparently been directed mainly against Muslims, the new and vigorous opposition to particularist religious rituals also affects the religious practices and, hence, the status of Judaism. The authors urge Jewish leaders around the world to promptly attend to the dilemmas presented in the report, and devise a coherent, coordinated policy on this pressing matter.
Den judiska sängkammarmöbeln: Berättande, materialitet och identitet
Translated Title: The Jewish bedchamber furniture: Narrative, materiality and identity
Author(s): Nylund Skog, Susanne
Date: 2012
Topics: Artefacts and Material Culture, Interviews, Main Topic: Other, Narrative, Memory, Immigration, Diaspora
El judeoespañol de Belgrado (Serbia): Un caso paradigmático de desplazamiento lingüístico en los Balcanes
Translated Title: The Judeo-Spanish of Belgrade (Serbia): A paradigmatic case of linguistic displacement in the Balkans
Author(s): Filipović, Jelena; Vučina Simović, Ivana
Date: 2012
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Ladino and Haketia, Sephardi Jews, Language, Assimilation
Abstract: En este trabajo, se presentan las condiciones generales tanto del mantenimiento del judeoespañol como de su desplazamiento por el serbio. El mantenimiento fue un fenómeno lingüístico y cultural durante el cual esta lengua se conservó por siglos casi intacta entre los sefardíes de Belgrado, mientras que el desplazamiento fue un proceso de una duración mucho menor, que se inicia en la comunidad sefardí de Belgrado en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX y se prolonga hasta la Segunda Guerra Mundial. El modelo aplicado al fenómeno estudiado se basa principalmente en la teoría de dominios de lenguaje. La situación sociolingüística y sociocultural del judeoespañol de Belgrado ofrece un paradigma del ciclo de vida de esta variedad lingüística en los Balcanes.
Traumatic memories of Holocaust survivors’ and their effect on the experience of identity
Author(s): Reches, Ruth; Sondaitė, Jolanta
Date: 2012
Topics: Holocaust Survivors, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Psychology, Trauma
Abstract: Collective disasters such as the Holocaust, war, repressions and ethnic violence are man-made political and social disasters. Not only they shock the wider (or future) public strongly, but result in serious trauma to the survived. A psychological trauma is an intense emotional experience with which human beings’ “I” (self) strive. The psychological effects of trauma is the phenomenon of in ability to adapt caused by psychological trauma. The identity is a dynamic system which defines a personality throughout interpersonal relations and emotional experiences. Traumatic memories disrupt conventional processes between of an individual and the community relationships based on trust, care and giving people a sense of control, purpose and interconnectivity since the sense of identity is formed by the relationship with others. Traumas destroy or diminish the victim’s earlier formed structure of self-perception and distort an individual’s sense of reality, warping meanings of real events. In our research we tried to analyze how trauma affected a person’s self-perception in the Holocaust. A biographical narrative interview was used to collect the data. One informant participated in the pilot research. The thematic analysis procedures were employed in order to achieve the goal. Themes were generated to delineate the descriptions of traumatic experiences and understandings of how they affect the informant’s life. Thematic analysis of the interview with the Holocaust survivor paved the way for better understanding of how traumatic memories are involved in the identity experience revealing the prevailing patterns such as self-perception as a weak physiological being, the relationship with the family, relationship with God, gratefulness for being alive.
Caught Between History and Politics: The Experience of a Moldovan Historian Studying the Holocaust
Author(s): Dumitru, Diana
Editor(s): Miller, Alexei; Lipman, Maria
Date: 2012
Topics: Holocaust, Holocaust Education, History, Jewish History, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial
Antisemitismus und Diskriminierungswahrnehmungen junger Muslime in Europa: Ergebnisse einer Studie unter jungen muslimischen Männern
Author(s): Jikeli, Günther
Date: 2012
Topics: Antisemitism: Muslim, Attitudes to Jews, Islam, Youth, Interviews, Main Topic: Antisemitism
„Gestern die Juden, heute die Muslime …“? Von den Gefahren falscher Analogien
Translated Title: "Yesterday the Jews, today the Muslims..."? Of the dangers of false analogies
Author(s): Schwarz-Friesel, Monika; Friesel, Evyatar
Editor(s): Botsch, Gideon; Glöckner, Olaf; Kopke, Christoph; Spieker, Michael
Date: 2012
Topics: Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Muslim, Islamophobia, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Main Topic: Antisemitism
Jewish Women in the Belgian Workplace: An Anthropological Perspective
Author(s): Tzadik, Efrat
Editor(s): Alidadi, Katayoun; Foblets, Marie-Claire; Vrielink, Jogchum
Date: 2012
Topics: Antisemitism, Israel Criticism, Jewish Identity, Jewish Perceptions of Antisemitism, Anthropology, Employment, Ethnography, Work, Main Topic: Other, Religious Observance and Practice, Jewish Women
Abstract: This research introduces an anthropological perspective in the debate on religious identity and the workplace. In particular, it examines the relationship between Jewish identity and practices and the workplace in Belgium, with a focus on gender issues. Thanks to in-depth interviews with a number of Jewish women in Brussels about their daily experiences in the workplace and extensive field work in this community, valuable and generally difficult to access data regarding Jewish women’s workplace participation, perceptions, and experiences has been collected and analyzed. There is a complex relationship between Jewish identity, practices and the perception of the respondents as it relates to the workplace and their own position. Perceived hostility towards Israel and the Jewry is a recurrent issue amongst the respondents. As Judaism is often connected to the State of Israel and the current political climate, individual Jewish women are sometimes confronted with unpleasant or negative comments or experiences in the workplace. Besides forming a strong deterrent for many of the respondents to participate in the mainstream workforce, this puts a lot of pressure on those women working for non-Jewish organizations. To a certain extent, Jewish practices are adapted, modified and negotiated by the working Jewish women to meet the demands of dominant norms in the modern Belgian workplace. In addition, the ‘coping mechanisms’ that are applied by the respondents are frequently gender-specific and family-motivated.
Debating, obfuscating and disciplining the Holocaust: post-Soviet historical discourses on the OUN–UPA and other nationalist movements
Author(s): Rossoliński-Liebe, Grzegorz
Date: 2012
Topics: Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Memory, Holocaust, Holocaust Commemoration, Communism, History, Nationalism
Abstract: After the dissolution of the Soviet Union the archives of the former republics and satellite states of this multiethnic empire were opened. This allowed historians to investigate the history of nationalist and radical right organisations and armies that, during the Second World War, had been involved in the Holocaust and other atrocities. Among them was the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists. For a long time the history of these movements was unknown or distorted by Soviet propaganda and propagandist publications written during the Cold War by veterans of these movements living in the West and cooperating with Western intelligence services. The dissolution of the Soviet Union was simultaneously accompanied by the “rebirth” of nationalism that was not free from antisemitism and racism, and which triggered different types of nationalist distortions of history and obfuscations of the Holocaust. Post-Soviet historical discourses were shaped not only by journalists or political activists, but also by radical right historians. These discourses impacted as well on historians who in general were critical of the post-Soviet rehabilitation of nationalism, war criminality or East Central European fascism. Concentrating on Ukrainian and Polish history, this article explores how the radical right historical discourses appeared in the post-Soviet space, what types of historians were involved in them and what kinds of distortions and obfuscations have predominated.
Передумови виникнення і сучасний стан Хасидського паломництва в Україні
Translated Title: Preconditions for the emergence and current state of Hasidic pilgrimage in Ukraine
Author(s): Шпарага, T.I.; Михалюк, M.M.
Date: 2012
Topics: Haredi / Strictly Orthodox Jews, Hassidim, Main Topic: Other, Pilgrimage, Tourism
Abstract: Розглянуто передумови виникнення і сучасний стан паломництва до об’єктів хасидських святинь та розкрито особливості їх збереження і розміщення на території України. Ключові слова: хасидське паломництво, хасидські святині, перспективи розвитку хасидського паломництва. Рассмотрены предпосылки возникновения и современное состояние паломничества к объектам хасидских святынь и раскрыты особенности их
сохранности и размещения на территории Украины. Ключевые слова: хасидское паломничество, хасидские святыни, перспективы развития хасидского паломничества.
Еврейская традиция сегодня и межпоколенная передача культурной информации
Translated Title: Jewish tradition today and intergenerational transmission of cultural information
Author(s): Носенко-Штейн, Елена
Editor(s): Белова, Ольга
Date: 2012
Topics: Main Topic: Identity and Community, Jewish Identity, Age and Generational Issues, Memory, Jewish Continuity
«Свой среди чужих»: варианты интеграции неевреев в еврейскую религиозную и общинную жизнь
Translated Title: "Friend among strangers": options for integrating non-Jews into Jewish religious and communal life
Author(s): Амосова, Светлана; Пахомова, Светлана
Editor(s): Белова, Ольга
Date: 2012
Topics: Ethnography, Main Topic: Identity and Community, Jewish Community, Intermarriage, Jewish - Non - Jewish Relations
«Мне приятен этот обычай…», или Как мы выбираем традицию
Translated Title: “I like this custom…”, or How we choose a tradition
Author(s): Белова, Ольга
Editor(s): Белова, Ольга
Date: 2012
Topics: Ethnography, Main Topic: Other, Ritual, Religious Observance and Practice
«Старое» и «новое» в еврейской похоронной обрядовости (по материалам экспедиций в Бессарабию и на Буковину)
Translated Title: "Old" and "new" in Jewish funeral rituals (according to the materials of the expeditions to Bessarabia and Bukovina)
Author(s): Иоффе, Элина
Editor(s): Белова, Ольга
Date: 2012
Topics: Death and Mourning, Cemeteries, Ethnography, Main Topic: Other, Ritual, Religious Observance and Practice
Anti-Semitism and the Extreme Right in Contemporary Ukraine
Author(s): Rudling, Per Anders
Editor(s): Mammone, Andrea; Godin, Emmanuel; Jenkins, Brian
Date: 2012
Topics: Antisemitism: Far right, Main Topic: Antisemitism
Progresszív judaizmus Magyarországon. Indentitás-(re)konstrukció reform zsidó közösségben
Translated Title: Progressive Judaism in Hungary. Identity (re)construction in reform Jewish communities
Author(s): Szász, Antónia
Date: 2012
Topics: Reform/Liberal/Progressive Judaism, Synagogues, Main Topic: Identity and Community, Jewish History, Jewish Community
Abstract: A progresszív judaizmus egy reformer zsidó vallási mozgalom és ideológia, amelynek gyökerei a felvilágosodásig nyúlnak vissza. Ma világviszonylatban követőinek számát tekintve a legnépesebb zsidó vallási irányzat. Magyarországon az első progresszív szervezetet a rendszerváltozás időszakában alapították. Vallási vezetője egy női rabbi lett, ami különösen szembetűnővé tette újító, szabadelvű, emancipált felfogását és gyakorlatát. Integrációs törekvéseit határozott elutasítás fogadta a tágabb zsidó vallási mezőben. A disszertáció a progresszív judaizmus hazai megjelenésének társadalmi körülményeivel és szerepével foglalkozik. Megvizsgálja, hogyan és milyen tényezők hatására alakult a hazai progresszív szervezetek helyzete – társadalmi bázisa, támogatottsága, elfogadottsága és erőforrás-ellátottsága – fennállásuk óta. Igyekszik megragadni a közösségi-felekezeti vonzás fontosabb elemeit, és arra keresi a választ, kik számára és miért vonzó, milyen igényeknek tesz eleget, milyen funkciót tölt be a hívek életében és a társadalomban. A több mint egy évtizedet átfogó kutatás első eredményei rávilágítottak arra, hogy a progresszív közösséghez való csatlakozás motivációi nem szűkíthetők le a vallásosságra és a valláshoz való visszatérésre, ezért a kutatás a továbbiakban kiemelt figyelmet fordított annak megismerésére és magyarázatára, hogy milyen tényezők alakítják az egyéni és társadalmi cselekvéseket. A mozgatórugókat az egyének saját interpretációin keresztül, a társadalmi cselekvéseket a maguk természetes közegében, alapvetően résztvevő megfigyelésen alapuló terepmunka során vizsgálta. Az empirikus tapasztalatok arra engednek következtetni, hogy a zsidó vallásnak és hagyománynak a zsidó identitásépítésben is komoly szerepe van, és az egyének társadalmi cselekvését zsidó önazonosságuk, illetve ezzel kapcsolatos útkeresésük irányítja. A szerző a szakirodalom vonatkozó elméleteinek és téziseinek áttekintésével, az azokra való reflexió során igyekezett kialakítani egy olyan keretet, amelybe a kutatási tapasztalatok értelmezése komplex módon ágyazható.
French restitution, German compensation: Algerian Jews and Vichy's financial legacy
Author(s): Slyomovics, Susan
Date: 2012
Topics: Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Restitution and Reparations, Post-Colonial, North African Jewry, Holocaust
Abstract: Post-World War II German reparative measures had originally been created for the benefit of European Jews. The April 2004 official German compensation programme for Jews who were interned in World War II included reparations to Algerians Jews of North Africa who were involved in a history of German indemnification superimposed upon a prior history of French restitution. Post-war German reparations since 1952 continue to be rooted in ongoing vibrant debates about coming to terms with Germany's Nazi past. In contrast, France's attitudes and policies towards the Vichy past in France and Algeria foreclosed its financial responsibility to Algerian Jews (or for that matter Algerian Muslims) for what Frantz Fanon would call a ‘just reparation’ for the crimes of colonialism. Consequently, the case of Algerian Jewry and what happened to the community from the beginning of World War II through Algeria's 1962 independence, and into the era of their settlement en masse in France (where they received reparations as Pieds-Noirs, or ‘repatriated’ European colonial settlers), draws on Holocaust studies, post-colonial studies, Algerian Jewish diasporic history and the dynamic unfolding of French–Algerian decolonisation.
Еврейские Сайты Знакомств И Еврейское На Сайтах Знакомств
Translated Title: Jewish Internet Dating Sites and the Jewish in Internet Dating Sites
Author(s): Ашкинази, Леонид
Editor(s): Молчанова, B. B.
Date: 2012
Topics: Internet, Main Topic: Other, Singles
Abstract: The author considers the pros and cons of the investigation of society by holding surveys of Internet sites or by content analysis of Internet resources (which could be called investigation of the society traces in the World Wide
Web). He classifies Internet dating sites based on different parameters: the way of data access, the level and form of payment, the target group. The article views Internet dating sites positioned as Jewish. Some of the latest are sites of dating service and of shadchens, but in most Internet dating sites (and all the major ones) personal contacts with the management are not necessary. The work studies ways of submitting information about the ethnic origin of visitors of the a.m. Internet dating sites and their conception of Judaism.
Еврейские Ценности И Самоидентификация У Еврейской Молодежи В Москве
Translated Title: Jewish values and identity among Jewish young people in Moscow
Author(s): Писаревская, Дина
Editor(s): Молчанова, B. B.
Date: 2012
Topics: Main Topic: Identity and Community, Jewish Identity, Youth, Surveys, Birthright (Taglit)
Abstract: The article is dedicated to the Jewish youth of Moscow. It is based on results of a survey conducted during 2011–2012 and their comparison with data of analogical research carried out in 2010–2011. The author stresses that Jewish self-identification among Jewish young people who actively participate in Jewish programs for the first year, exists. It has been impacted by their participation in Jewish enterprises and Jewish life, family archive and celebrating Jewish holydays. The self-identification of respondents who took part in the “Taglit” program has been also supported by their trip to Israel. The “newcomers” are also interested in lectures and seminars on Jewish history, culture and traditions whereas those, who participated in these programs for several years, are more interested in unusual actions and enterprises.
Семья, Родственники, Друзья И Их Роль В Формировании Еврейской Самоидентификации В Современной России
Translated Title: Family, Relatives, Friends And Their Role In Forming Jewish Identity In Modern Russia
Author(s): Носенко-Штейн, Елена
Editor(s): Молчанова, B. B.
Date: 2012
Topics: Main Topic: Identity and Community, Jewish Identity, Family and Household, Friendship
Beschneidung: das Zeichen des Bundes in der Kritik. Zur Debatte um das Kölner Urteil.
Translated Title: Circumcision: criticism of the indication by the Federal Government. The debate concerning the judgment in Cologne.
Editor(s): Heil, Johannes; Kramer, Stephan J.
Date: 2012
Topics: Circumcision / Brit Milah, Islam, Jewish - Muslim Relations
Abstract: Das Urteil des Landgerichts Köln vom Mai 2012 zur Beschneidung hat heftige Kritik hervorgerufen, weil es eine elementare rituelle Praxis von Juden und Muslimen kriminalisiert und Religion auf eine Angelegenheit des Strafrechts reduziert. Überraschend war die Intensität der folgenden Mediendebatte. Sie zeigte, dass es nicht allein um ein Ritual und seine Begründung, sondern um Grundfragen des gesellschaftlichen Zusammenlebens und der religiösen Selbstbestimmung geht. Die Autorinnen und Autoren des Bandes leisten aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive einen Debattenbeitrag und werben um Verständnis für eine Tradition, die für Juden und Muslime nicht verhandelbar ist.

Inhaltsverzeichnis: Johannes Heil, Stephan J. Kramer: Das Zeichen des Bundes in der Kritik (9-14); I. Geschichte und Kultur. Joachim Friedrich Quack: Die traditionelle Beschneidung, ihr Verbot und ihre Sondergenehmigung im Alten Ägypten (17-22); Johannes Heil: Beschneidung als Motiv in Alteritätsdiskursen und Judenfeindschaft (23-35); Andreas Brämer: Die jüdische Beschneidungsfrage in Deutschland um 1850 (36-40); Daniel Krochmalnik: Mila und Schoa (41-50); Hanna Liss: Und auch meine Shabbate gab ich ihnen (51-60); Anat Feinberg: Brit Mila in der hebräischen Literatur (61-68); II. Recht und Rechte: Heiner Bielefeldt: Menschenrecht, kein Sonderrecht (71-82); Michael Germann: Die grundrechtliche Freiheit zur religiös motivierten Beschneidung (83-97); Kyrill-A. Schwarz: Die aus religiösen Gründen gebotene Beschneidung und das Verfassungsrecht (98-114); Franziska Kelle: Die Vereinbarkeit der rituellen Beschneidung bei Jungen mit der UN-Kinderrechtskonvention (115-133); Edward Schramm: Die Beschneidung von Knaben aus strafrechtswissenschaftlicher Sicht (134-145); Bijan Fateh-Moghadam: Strafrecht und Religion im liberalen Rechtsstaat (146-159); Benjamin Jokisch: Islamische Knabenbeschneidung in Deutschland (160-170); III. Medizin, Religion und Lebenspraxis: Robert Jütte: Die Medikalisierung eines religiösen Rituals - oder: von der wachsenden Deutungsmacht der Ärzte im Beschneidungsdiskurs (173-180); Antje Yael Deusel: Medizinische Aspekte der Brit Mila (181-190); Michael Bongardt: Vom Recht auf Freiheit und der Pflicht zur Toleranz (191-198); Gesa S. Ederberg: "durch dein Blut sollst du leben." (199-204); Giuseppe Veltri: (K)ein Konflikt zwischen Grundprinzipien: Das Wohl des Menschen und der jüdische Brauch der Beschneidung (205-216); IV. Die Debatte: Peter Widmann: Ein Gerichtsurteil und seine mediale Inszenierung (219-227); Micha Brumlik: Ein Urteil aus Köln - Der Gesetzgeber vor dem Ernstfall (228-232); Birgit E. Klein: Brit Mila: Innerjüdische Kritik und die Konstruktion von Geschlecht und Geschlechterrollen (233-255); Havva Engin: Die deutsche Beschneidungsdebatte: Anmerkungen aus muslimischer Perspektive (256-260); Ulrich Deutschmann: Der Balken in meinem Auge (261-263); Juliane Wetzel: Judenfeindliche Stereotypisierungen: Das Beschneidungsurteil im öffentlichen Diskurs (264-276).
Monoreligious education in a pluralist framework: The case of Jewish RE curriculum in Finland
Author(s): Ubani, Martin
Date: 2012
Topics: Main Topic: Education, Jewish Education, Curriculum, Schools: Non-Jewish
Abstract: This report examines the characteristics of Jewish minority RE in Finnish state schools. The article will first describe the Finnish context for Jewish RE and then the characteristics of monoreligious education. Then the article will analyse the curriculum for Jewish RE in Basic Education by comparing it to the general guidelines for RE using qualitative content analysis. The guiding research questions in this research report are: 1. What are the characteristics of Jewish minority Religious Education in Finnish state schools? 2. What are the differences between the Jewish RE and the general curriculum for RE in Finland?
Budapesti serdülők a zsidókról (1991–2011)
Author(s): Csákó, Mihály
Editor(s): Biró, Zsuzsanna Hanna
Date: 2012
Topics: Attitudes to Jews, Antisemitism, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Youth
Variációk egy témára A zsidó „Másik” ábrázolása a magyar antiszemita médiában az 1940-es években és 2011-ben
Translated Title: Variations on a Theme The Representation of the Jewish “Other” in the Hungarian Anti-Semitic Media in the 1940s and 2011
Author(s): Kovács, András; Szilágyi, Anna
Editor(s): Biró, Zsuzsanna Hanna
Date: 2012
Topics: Attitudes to Jews, Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Discourse, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Media, Newspapers, Magazines and Periodicals
A zsidó–magyar viszony mai állásáról
Translated Title: On the current state of Jewish-Hungarian relations
Author(s): Kende, Peter
Editor(s): Biró, Zsuzsanna Hanna
Date: 2012
Topics: Jewish - Non - Jewish Relations, Main Topic: Other
Kollektív emlékezet, társadalmi identitás és a holokauszt oktatása
Translated Title: Collective memory, social identity and Holocaust education
Author(s): Kovács, Mónika
Editor(s): Biró, Zsuzsanna Hanna
Date: 2012
Topics: Holocaust Education, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Memory
Judenfeindschaften –Alte Vorurteile und moderner Antisemitismus
Translated Title: Hostility towards Jews. Old prejudices and modern anti-Semitism
Author(s): Ullrich, Peter; Decker, Oliver; Kiess, Oliver; Brähler, Elmar
Editor(s): Decker, Oliver; Kiess, Oliver; Brähler, Elmar
Date: 2012
Topics: Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Far right, Main Topic: Antisemitism
Antisemitismus in Deutschland 1996 und 2006 – ein Vergleich
Translated Title: Anti-Semitism in Germany in 1996 and 2006 - a comparison
Author(s): Bergmann, Werner; Münch, Anna Verena
Date: 2012
Topics: Antisemitism, Main Topic: Antisemitism
O "eruv" na Europa, nos Estados Unidos e no Brasil: novas estratégias de demarcação do espaço judaico
Translated Title: The "eruv" in Europe, the United States and Brazil: new strategies for the demarcation of the Jewish space
Author(s): Topel, Marta Francisca
Date: 2012
Topics: Eruv, Jewish Neighbourhoods, Main Topic: Other
Abstract: No artigo são discutidas as mudanças acontecidas nas comunidades da diaspóra nas últimas décadas no que diz respeito a novas estratégias de apropria-ção do espaço público. Para ilustrar esta questão, são analisadas as controvérsias suscitadas em cidades dos Estados Unidos e da Inglaterra como resultado do estabelecimento de eruvim em alguns de seus bairros. Finalmente, tendo como base empírica os bairros judaicos paulistanos, tentou-se mostrar como eles também estão passando por um processo de judaização, que inclui diferentes modos de apropriação do espaço público pelas correntes ortodoxas da cidade.
Jewish History Centres and Research Institutions in Europe
Editor(s): Faur, Antonio
Date: 2012
Topics: Main Topic: Education, Jewish Studies, Universities / Higher Education, Jewish History, Jewish Museums, Holocaust, Holocaust Education
Religion and Ethics at the End of Life. A Qualitative Empirical Study among Elderly Jewish and Muslim Women in Antwerp (Belgium)
Author(s): Baeke, Goedele
Date: 2012
Topics: Ageing and the Elderly, Main Topic: Other, Comparisons with other communities, Religious Belief, Religious Observance and Practice, Health, Death and Mourning
Hardship And Needs Of Elderly Hesed Clients: An Analysis Of Clients Served By Hesed Service Centers In Russia & Ukraine
Author(s): Tighe, Elizabeth; Magidin de Kramer, Raquel; Bleckman, Dina; Begli, Nursahedov; Saxe, Leonard
Date: 2012
Topics: Ageing and the Elderly, Care and Welfare, Health, Evaluation, Main Topic: Other, Social Services, Social Work, NGOs
Abstract:

The countries of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) are the home today for a substantial number of Jews, many of whom live in poor, economically disadvantaged communities. Throughout the FSU, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) has supported the development of Hesed welfare and Jewish community centers to assist in the provision of services to Jews in need and to support the renewal of Jewish life after years of suppression. The present report is designed to review the current economic, health, and social conditions of these elderly Jews in need in the FSU and to compare their circumstances, as best possible, to their counterparts who live in western countries such as the United States.

Data from a large number of sources are reviewed and analyzed, including national statistics, national and local surveys, and client-level data. The data indicate clearly that, in view of demographic composition, as well as economic and social conditions, elderly Jews in the FSU have tremendous needs for supportive services funded by philanthropy compared to their peers in the United States. The comparisons also highlight the disparities in available care among those most in need.

There is a clear need for external support for basic health and social services for elderly Jews in the FSU. Twenty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, there is not an adequate safety net for the elderly. The situation is in flux and there are unique challenges associated with understanding service delivery in societies that are in transition. The available data on pensions and living circumstances make clear that the economic situation for elderly in the FSU who seek Hesed services is dire. Faced with increasing costs for basic needs such as utilities and food, along with health services including essential medicines, quality care and homecare, the pension amounts that Hesed clients rely on are inadequate to meet their needs.
Juifs et musulmans d’Algérie en France Cinquante ans d’exil partagé, entre mémoire, échanges et déchirements
Translated Title: Jews and Muslims from Algeria to France: Fifty years of shared exile, between memory, exchanges and heartbreak
Author(s): Guedj, Jérémy
Date: 2012
Topics: Jewish - Muslim Relations, Immigration, Diaspora, Main Topic: Other, Memory, North African Jewry
Abstract: L’histoire des relations entre juifs et musulmans originaires d’Algérie est marquée par des liens étroits et tumultueux. Entre ces deux “communautés” partageant un espace et une culture communs, la fin de la guerre d’indépendance a introduit une rupture. Les nombreux juifs quittant l’Algérie partent le regard tourné vers la terre d’origine. S’ils vont trouver chez les immigrés musulmans des interlocuteurs privilégiés pour conserver vivantes leurs racines méditerranéennes, l’incompréhension mutuelle ira grandissante.
Remembering to Remember," "Remembering to Benefit," "Remembering to Forget": The Variety of Memories of Jews and the Holocaust in Postcommunist Poland
Author(s): Michlic, Joanna Beata
Date: 2012
Topics: Holocaust Memorials, Holocaust Commemoration, Holocaust, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Memory
Abstract: Poland presents the most advanced case of the transformation of the memory of Jews and the Holocaust in
all of postcommunist Europe. For that reason, it can serve as a paradigm in comparative studies of the
scope, dynamics, complexities, and challenges of this memory transformation.
 The memory of Jews and the Holocaust in postcommunist Poland has persistently occupied a central stage
in public debate since 1989. At present, the more than twenty-year-old boom of the “theater” of Jewish
memory shows no sign of declining. This does not, however, mean that the archeology of the Polish
Jewish past has been completed and that a broad public consensus has been reached on how to remember
the Jews and the Holocaust, especially the dark uncomfortable past in Polish-Jewish relations showing
Christian (ethnic) Poles in a bad light.
 One can differentiate three key dimensions in this landscape of memory: “remembering to remember,”
“remembering to benefit,” and “remembering to forget.” The first underscores the void left after the
genocide of Polish Jewry, and Polish-Jewish relations in all their aspects. In “remembering to benefit,” the
key intention behind the recalling of the Jews and the Holocaust is to achieve tangible goals. In
“remembering to forget,” the memory of Jews and the Holocaust is regarded as an awkward problem.
 In Poland’s immediate future, these three modes of remembering Jews and the Holocaust will persist. This
landscape of memory will continue to resemble a film with a multiple array of scenes—many fascinating
and intellectually and morally uplifting, others confusing, hypocritical, intellectually dull, morally
despicable, and opportunistic.
The Paideia European-Jewish Leadership Program: Graduate Views of Program Contributions and Impacts
Author(s): Katz, Esther; Korazim, Malka
Date: 2012
Topics: Evaluation, Jewish Education, Main Topic: Education
Abstract: Paideia - the European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden was created in 2000 as an academic and applied institute of excellence, with the mandate of working for the rebuilding of Jewish life and culture in Europe, and educating for active minority citizenship. It does this through offering an intensive one-year educational program in Jewish Studies directed at future leaders of Jewish life and inter-cultural work. Each year 20-25 participants attend the program, from both Jewish and non-Jewish backgrounds and a variety of European countries. In addition to the one-year Jewish Studies Program, Paideia has also developed activities for its graduates including alumni conferences, educational weekends and Project-Incubator, a two-week summer program to support projects and social innovation across Europe. Project-Incubator was introduced as a follow-up program for alumni, but has expanded its target group beyond graduates. Since its introduction in 2006, the program has developed over 100 different projects. After several years of activity, Paideia decided to conduct an evaluation study to provide a systematic overview of the program's contributions and achievements, and identify unmet needs. The evaluation comprised a follow-up study of all graduates from 2002-2009. This reportpresents the findings of that study. The study findings showed that graduates view the Paideia program as very successful and feel that it contributed to them to a great extent. It was found that all graduates continue to be involved in Jewish activities in their countries of residence. Most report that the program has had an important impact on their professional-life career, on their pursuit of Jewish Studies and on their involvement in Jewish community activities.
Economic Crisis and Blaming You Know Who: Antisemitism and Nationalism in Austria
Author(s): Stoegner, Karin
Date: 2012
Topics: Antisemitism, Economy, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Nationalism