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Jewish politics in the post-communist world: Personality, ideology and conflict in the contemporary Ukrainian Jewish movement
Author(s): Khanin, Vladimir
Date: 2000
Topics: Jewish Community, Jewish Communal Politics, Jewish Organisations, Jewish Identity, Jewish Revival, Main Topic: Identity and Community, Post-1989
The Crisis in Ukraine: Attitudes of the Russian and Ukrainian Jewish Communities
Author(s): Feferman, Kiril
Date: 2015
Topics: Main Topic: Identity and Community, Politics, Jewish Politics, Jewish Communal Politics, Diaspora, Diaspora Relations
The History of Beit Haverim
Author(s): Gross, Martine
Editor(s): Gross, Martine; Nizard, Sophie; Scioldo-Zurcher, Yann
Date: 2017
Topics: Main Topic: Identity and Community, LGBT, Jewish Community, Jewish Organisations, Jewish Communal Politics
Abstract: n her article, Martine Gross studies the multiplication of family models from the point of view of homosexual French Jews. Taking off from the history of a gay and lesbian group, Beit Haverim, she shows how Jewish institutions in France have moved from “grossly ignoring” simply the possibility of a double identity – Jewish
and homosexual – to gradually accepting Beit Haverim as an interlocutor. But she also tells the story of the growing awareness among rabbis and the organized community that a compound reality actually exists
Fistfights at the Moscow Choral Synagogue: Ethnicity and Ritual in Post-Soviet Russia
Author(s): Goluboff, Sascha L.
Date: 2001
Topics: Main Topic: Identity and Community, Synagogues, Jewish Communal Politics, Jewish Identity, Jewish Community, Ritual, Ethnicity
Abstract: In this article I investigate ritual life at the Moscow Choral Synagogue, the largest and longest running Orthodox synagogue in the Russian capital. Unlike many Eastern European synagogues, this synagogue is a thriving prayer community due to its unique congregation of Russian, Georgian, Bukharan, Mountain, and visiting Western Jews. I focus on a fistfight that took place between an Israeli and a Georgian Jew during prayer. I detail how Russian and Georgian Jews interpreted the incident to be a result of their different ethnicities, Russian and Georgian respectively. The fight elucidates how ritual in post-Soviet society provides the means for the production of ethnicity and Jewish identity. Arguing for localism within Judaism's transnational ideology, I suggest that Jewish identity, like ritual, is performative and contextual. I also show how the shifting power relations in post-Soviet society have reshaped ethnicity, making state-endorsed market reform a reference point of ethnic differentiation.
Counting as one: Moral encounters and criteria of affinity in a Polish Jewish congregation
Translated Title: En être: enjeux moraux et critères d’affinité dans une congrégation juive polonaise
Author(s): Lorenz, Jan
Date: 2015
Topics: Main Topic: Identity and Community, Jewish Revival, Jewish Community, Ethnography, Synagogues, Jewish Peoplehood, Jewish Communal Politics
Abstract: The resurgence and transformation of Poland’s Jewish communal institutions and religious life in the last twenty years has inspired debate concerning the criteria for being and becoming Jewish. The voices in that discussion come not only from different generations, but also from different geographies of Jewish life. Drawing on fieldwork in a contemporary Jewish congregation in Poland, this article discusses ethics in the context of different rationalities of affinity. Poland’s “Jewish revival” confronted values and affects grounded in intergenerational experiences of the post-Holocaust era with categories of belonging and religious conversion enabled by new laws, transnational programs of education and socialization, and the impact of religious leaders from abroad. The apparent incommensurability of these standpoints, and the taxing attempts at their reconciliation, invite us to reconceptualize the notion of moral tradition.
Jewish life in Hungary: Achievements, challenges and priorities since the collapse of communism
Translated Title: Zsidó élet Magyarországon: Eredmények, kihívások és célok a kommunista rendszer bukása óta
Author(s): Kovács, András; Forras-Biro, Aletta
Date: 2011
Topics: Jewish Community, Jewish Communal Politics, Jewish Organisations, Pluralism, Jewish Leadership, Interviews, Main Topic: Identity and Community
New conceptions of community
Author(s): Boyd, Jonathan; Zarum, Raphael; Boyd Gelfand, Shoshana; Plen, Matt; Kahn-Harris, Keith; Finlay, Joseph; Williams, Judith
Date: 2010
Topics: Jewish Community, Jewish Communal Politics, Young Adults / Emerging Adulthood, Internet, Pluralism, Jewish Education, Main Topic: Identity and Community
Abstract: Following a year and a half of discussions among a wide-ranging group of thinkers, practitioners and activists in the British Jewish community, several of the participants contributed articles to this publication focusing on how the concept of community is changing in the particular context of British Jewry.

The report, which was sponsored by the American Joint Distribution Committee and the Clore Duffield Foundation, contains a series of thoughts or ideas designed to facilitate discussion and debate about the Jewish collective future. The views expressed raise some central and often quite challenging questions and ideas, and are designed to promote dialogue about how to sustain, renew and invigorate the Jewish community today.

Included in the publication are essays by JPR Executive Director Jonathan Boyd (Jewish Community 2.0: How the Internet may be changing the face of Jewish life), Rabbi Dr Raphael Zarum (Jewish conceptions of community); Rabbi Shoshana Boyd Gelfand (Post-denominational communities: Finding a home for serious Jews); Matt Plen (Learning communities and critical pedagogy); Dr Keith Kahn-Harris (What is British Jewish politics?); Joseph Finlay (Towards an open community); and Judith Williams (Navigating the Jewish landscape; How emerging adults are teaching us new conceptions of community).
British Jewry since Emancipation 
Author(s): Alderman, Geoffrey
Date: 2014
Topics: Jewish History, Jewish Community, Jewish Communal Politics, Main Topic: Other
Abstract: This is a comprehensive history of the Jews of the United Kingdom since emancipation in the mid-nineteenth century until the summer of 2013. Originally conceived as a natural sequel to the History of the Jews in England, by Dr Cecil Roth, which ended with the granting of full political equality in 1858, it is also an important onward departure from Professor Alderman’s previous work, Modern British Jewry.

Here Geoffrey Alderman takes the story forward, from an examination of the social structure and economic base of Jewish communities in Victorian England, through the great immigrations of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and the development of the Zionist movement in Britain, to address contemporary history and issues. 
Modern British Jewry
Author(s): Alderman, Geoffrey
Date: 1992
Topics: Jewish History, Jewish Community, Jewish Communal Politics, Main Topic: Other
Abstract: An authoritative and comprehensive history of the Jews of Britain over the last century and a half, this book examines the social structure and economic base of Jewish communities in Victorian England and traces the struggle for emancipation. Alderman analyzes the effects of the large-scale immigration for the early twentieth century, and charts the development of the Zionist movement in Britain. Alderman takes his account up to the present day, exploring the concerns and self-image of contemporary Jewish communities in Britain and their place in an increasingly pluralist society. Based on a wealth of primary and secondary sources and written by a leading Jewish historian, Modern British Jewry is a political, social, and intellectual history of British Jews which is critical, scholarly and immensely readable.
Controversy and Crisis: Studies in the History of the Jews in Modern Britain.
Author(s): Alderman, Geoffrey
Date: 1999
Topics: Jewish Community, Divisions, Jewish Communal Politics, Pluralism, Jewish History, Chief Rabbinate, Main Topic: Other
Abstract: Professor Geoffrey Alderman is the acknowledged authority on the history of the Jews in modern Britain. During an academic career spanning forty years he has produced some of the most authoritative and controversial studies in this field, lighting up the dark corners of the Jewish existence in Great Britain and revealing secrets the Anglo-Jewish communities would rather have kept from public view. In Controversy and Crisis, Alderman presents sixteen of these essays, covering fields as disparate as the history of the Jewish vote in the UK, the true story of the British Chief Rabbinate, and the uneasy tenure of Sir Jonathan Sacks in that office. He also considers the role of the historian in Anglo-Jewish life, and the troubled careers of some of its leaders and scholars. 
British Jewry: The Disintegration of a Community
Author(s): Alderman, Geoffrey
Editor(s): Stein, Leslie; Encel, Steven M.
Date: 2003
Topics: Jewish Community, Divisions, Jewish Communal Politics, Pluralism, Jewish History, Main Topic: Identity and Community