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Teaching the holocaust through landscape study: The Liverpool experience
Author(s): Charlesworth, Andrew
Date: 1994
Topics: Holocaust Education, Universities / Higher Education, Teaching and Pedagogy, Geography, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial
Abstract: There are a number of ways in which the Holocaust can be taught at various educational levels. This article explains the experiences of one university geography field course, which seeks to use ‘conventional’ landscape study approaches to provide an understanding of aspects of the Holocaust. It describes the methodology of the course, the experiences of students and staff, and details the difficulties of such study. In particular, it emphasizes the need for sensitive staff‐student relations and the wider educational impact of such work. Whilst stressing the uniqueness of such a course in a geography degree, it commends the strategy to teachers in many other disciplines.
Critical history and collective memory : a problem with Jewish education
Author(s): Pomson, Alex Daniel Martin
Date: 1994
Topics: Main Topic: Education, Jewish Education, Jewish Schools, Jewish Students, Jewish Studies, Jewish Teachers, Jewish History, Teaching and Pedagogy, Curriculum
Abstract: This research has been stimulated by the profound ambivalence which Jewish schools show in deciding whether or how to teach Jewish history. This ambivalence is first examined in the context of a philosophical analysis of the relationship between critical history and other forms of historical consciousness. Finding this approach deficient, a psychological examination of how Jewish students experience the study of Jewish history is proposed. A critical review of research into children's historical thinking leads to the suggestion that alternative research traditions may be more fruitfully employed here. As a result, it is proposed to apply a concept mapping methodology to the investigation of what Jewish students acquire from the critical study of Jewish history. Theoretical problems raised by this proposal are confronted and resolved, and a defensible research strategy is then formulated according to series of explicitly articulated empirical and theoretical assumptions. This culminates in the presentation and description of an instrument for the generation and analysis of conceptual representations of Jewish historical knowledge in cognitive structure. Two case studies are offered. These are followed by a discussion of (1) how these studies might inform debate about the consequences of teaching critical Jewish history in Jewish schools; (2) the possibilities offered by applying a concept mapping methodology to Jewish education in general.
Židovi u Hrvatskoj s posebnim osvrtom na grad Zagreb
Translated Title: Jews in Croatia With Special Focus On the City of Zagreb
Author(s): Švob, Melita; Brčić, Carmen; Podgorelec, Sonja
Date: 1994
Topics: Demography, Jewish Community, Main Topic: Demography and Migration
Abstract: Rad je zamišljen kao opći pregled doseljavanja Židova od najstarijih vremena do današnjih dana na prostor Hrvatske. Česte promjene političkih i gospodarskih prilika, a time i zakonodavstva na području naseljavanja, određivale su oblik i veličinu židovskih zajednica kao i prava koja su im u pojedinim povijesnim razdobljima davana i oduzimana. Podaci o broju Židova i njihovih obitelji prikazani su u vremenskom nizu od prošloga stoljeća pa do posljednjega popisa stanovništva. Demografska analiza za Hrvatsku, a posebno je izdvojen grad Zagreb, napravljena je prema dvostrukim kriterijima: Židovi po nacionalnosti i pripadnici židovske vjere od popisa 1900. do 1991. godine. Uz demografsku analizu, rad se bavi obrazovnim, karitativnim i drugim aktivnostima židovskih zajednica u Hrvatskoj, a osobita je pozornost po svećena židovskoj zajednici u Zagrebu od njezina osnutka 1806. godine do danas.
The work and organisation of local churches and synagogues: four English congregations in the 1990s
Author(s): Harris, Margaret
Date: 1994
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Synagogues, Volunteering, Social Policy, Comparisons with other communities, Comparative Studies, Care and Welfare
Abstract: This thesis is about the work and organisation of local religious congregations in England. It focuses on the congregation of two religions- Christianity and Judaism; that is, on 'churches' and 'synagogues'. In Chapter One, the study is positioned within the academic field of social policy and administration. Chapters Two, Three and Four review literature on the historical and societal context within which churches and synagogues operate, the role of religious functionaries and organisational features of congregations. Four organisational themes cutting across denominational and religious boundaries are identified: purposes and goals; roles and role relationships; organisational change; and denominational institutions. Chapter Five develops an approach for an empirical study and gives an account of fieldwork in an inner-city Roman Catholic church; a black-led Pentecostal church in an industrial town; an Anglican church on a housing estate; and a suburban Reform synagogue. Organisational features of the four case congregations are presented in Chapter Six. In the following four chapters the organisational issues which arise in the Congregations are described and analysed. Chapter Seven presents the perceived Issues in congregations around setting and implementing goals. Chapter Eight looks at clerical roles and Chapter Nine at the roles of lay employees and volunteers. Chapter Ten discusses organisational change, the links between congregations and their denominational institutions, and organisational structures. Finally, in Chapter Eleven, the study findings are drawn together and re-examined in the light of the earlier literature. The way in which the case studies elucidate and develop knowledge about the work and organisation of congregations is discussed. It is suggested that further progress towards the development of theory on congregation organisation could be made by conceptualising congregations as voluntary organisations.
Über den Gräbern mit gehisster Fahne Israels - Die Struktur undBedeutung israelischer Jugendreisen nach dem Polen der Schoah
Author(s): Feldman, Jackie
Editor(s): Schreier, Helmut; Heyl, Matthias
Date: 1994
Topics: Holocaust Commemoration, Holocaust Education, Holocaust Memorials, Educational Tours, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial
Jews and antisemites in Romania since the death of Rabbi Rosen
Author(s): Shafir, Michael
Date: 1994
Topics: Antisemitism, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Representation, Rabbis, Post-1989
Attitudes Toward Jews
Author(s): Gudkov, Lev; Levinson, Aleksei
Date: 1994
Topics: Attitudes to Jews, Surveys, Main Topic: Other
Antisemitism in Post‐Soviet Ukraine
Author(s): Mirsky, Rudolf
Date: 1994
Topics: Antisemitism, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Post-1989
Social Distance from Jews in Russia and Ukraine
Author(s): Hesli, Vicki L.; Miller, Arthur H.; Reisinger, William M.; Morgan, Kevin L.
Date: 1994
Topics: Antisemitism, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Nationalism, Politics, Jewish - Non - Jewish Relations
Abstract: With the rise of ultranationalist organizations throughout Europe, the issue of attitudes and orientations held toward designated "out-groups" has become a critical concern of anxious observers. In Russia the strength registered by Vladimir Zhirinovskii's ultranationalist Liberal Democratic Party during the parliamentary elections of 1993 has been interpreted as a sign of intolerance among the Russian populace. In fact, the success of candidates associated with the Liberal Democratic Party was not only based upon appeals to strengthen the Russian nation against perceived enemies, but also upon promises of a return to price stability and upon Zhirinovskii's anti-establishment, populist program. Nonetheless, Zhirinovskii's success in the 1991 presidential elections (he attracted 7.8% of the electorate) does serve to reaffirm the importance of tracking how attitudes toward groups that have often been targeted as scapegoats in times of social or economic upheaval have evolved in the late Soviet and immediate post-Soviet period. Two major questions concern us here: first, how pervasive among Russians and Ukrainians are perceptions of significant "social distance" between themselves and designated out-groups, most notably the Jewish population; and second, to what extent do these perceptions of distance form part of a cohesive ideology of ultranationalism? Understanding the basis of sentiments toward Jewish populations is particularly important for interpreting the workings of the complex mosaic of the post-Soviet political culture.
Jewish Education and Identity among London Jews
Author(s): Schmool, Marlena; Miller, Steve
Date: 1994
Topics: Jewish Education, Jewish Identity, Main Topic: Education
Die Holcaustrezeption der Enkelgeneration im Spannungsfeld von Abwehr und Traumatisierungen
Author(s): Brendler, Konrad
Date: 1994
Topics: Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Holocaust Survivors: Grandchildren of, Trauma
Anti-Semitism and Jewish Identity in Post-Communist Hungary
Author(s): Kovács, András
Editor(s): Braham, Randolph L.
Date: 1994
Topics: Antisemitism, Jewish Identity, Main Topic: Antisemitism
Anti-Semitism Among Hungarian College and University Students
Author(s): Kovács, András; Fischer, Gyorgy
Date: 1994
Topics: Antisemitism, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Students, Universities / Higher Education, Antisemitism: Attitude Surveys
Abstract: One thousand Hungarian students were interviewed in order to measure the intensity of antisemitic beliefs held by Hungarian college and university students. The results revealed that 25% of the students show antisemitic attitudes and 32% maintain some negative stereotypes about Jews. These results also had a strong correlation to the students' parents' level of education and social status. Furthermore, the study authors found that university students were less likely to be antisemitic than college students. The authors analyze the data and further examine the relationship between Jews and Hungarians.
Some Correlates of Well-being and Distress in Anglo-Jewish Women
Author(s): Loewenthal, Kate; Amos, Valerie; Goldblatt, Vivienne; Mullarkey, Sean
Editor(s): Brown, Laurence B.
Date: 1994
Topics: Mental Health, Main Topic: Other, Jewish Women, Orthodox Judaism, Haredi / Strictly Orthodox Jews, Surveys, Motherhood
Abstract: London Jewish women were sampled from “middle-” and “ultra”orthodox synagogue membership lists, and measures of well-being and distress, together with information on demographic and other factors, were obtained from 121 of them. For the whole sample, correlates of depression and well-being related to the wife-and-mother roles, and generally resembled the correlates that have been found in other groups of women, although the Jewish women with fewer dependent children were the more depressed. The two groups of women differed on a number of demographic characteristics, which might explain the slightly lower levels of distress and dissatisfaction in the ultraorthodox. For the middle-orthodox group, happiness relates to marriage, whereas for the ultraorthodox, happiness relates to integration into their community
Why we go to Poland: Holocaust tourism as secular ritual
Author(s): Kugelmass, Jack
Editor(s): Young, James Edward
Date: 1994
Topics: Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Holocaust Memorials, Holocaust Education, Holocaust Commemoration, Memory, Tourism
Antisemitism and Its Opponents in the Russian Press: From Perestroika until the Present.
Author(s): Friedgut, Theodore
Date: 1994
Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism, Media, Newspapers, Magazines and Periodicals
Antisemitism in Post-Communist Eastern Europe: A Marginal or Central Issue?
Author(s): Volovici, Leon
Date: 1994
Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Far right, Politics, Surveys
Abstract: Surveys on present trends of post-Communist antisemitism in Eastern Europe reveal contradictory images of the weight and significance of current anti-Jewish manifestations and rhetoric. An evaluation of the main themes of the present antisemitic discourse points to the predominance of irrational myths -- the“Jewish (or Israeli) conspiracy” and world-wide “Jewish power.” In addition, the public debate on the Holocaust and collectiveresponsibility for crimes against the local Jewish population has had a significant impact on public discourse. Questions of national identity, a tendency towards historical distortion and mystification, and the propagandistic accusation of “Jewish guilt” for the former repressive communist regimes form another area of contention which leads to anti-Jewish manifestations.The reproduction and spread of antisemitic motifs is found mainly in political discourse. In order to understand whether antisemitic political groups are central or marginal, it is necessary to consider the degree of their acceptance or support bymainstream political forces, direct or insidious forms of legitimation for them, as well as the force of the antisemitic tradition,and the amplitude of public or official reactions against either the vulgar or the sophisticated expressions of antisemitism
Anti-semitism and the treatment of the Holocaust in postcommunist Eastern Europe
Editor(s): Braham, Randolph L.
Date: 1994
Topics: Antisemitism, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Holocaust Commemoration, Holocaust, Holocaust Memorials, Memory, Nationalism, Post-1989
Abstract: A collection of papers based on lectures offered under the auspices of the Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies during the 1992 academic year. Contributors evaluate the reassertion of xenophobic nationalism and the rise of antisemitism in postcommunist East Central European countries such as Romania, Slovakia, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Hungary. Topics include treatment of the Holocaust in textbooks, the communist legacy, and Jews and Christians under communism
A Very Light Sleeper: The persistence & dangers of antisemitism
Author(s): , Runnymede Commission on Antisemitism
Date: 1994
Topics: Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Discourse, Antisemitism: Monitoring, Antisemitism: Muslim, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Policy
Abstract: This report documents the historical persistence of antisemitism in British society and culture. Its review of events and trends in Britain is located within the wider context of European history.
La communauté juive ou la singularité sarcelloise
Author(s): Podselver, Laurence
Date: 1994
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Jewish Neighbourhoods, Integration, Jewish - Non - Jewish Relations, Jewish - Muslim Relations
Abstract: Trente ans après la construction du Grand Ensemble, Sarcelles est souvent présenté comme un lieu de regroupements
«ethniques», de ségrégation, voire de ghettos. La population juive tient, au-delà de toute réalité statistique, un rôle central dans l'image de la ville, à la fois comme modèle d'intégration et paradoxalement comme son contraire.
Immunization uptake and parental perceptions in a strictly orthodox Jewish community in north-east London
Author(s): Cuninghame, C. J.; Charlton, C. P. J.; Jenkins, S. M.
Date: 1994
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Health, Haredi / Strictly Orthodox Jews, Surveys
Abstract: Background We wished to ascertain immunization uptake rates in the strictly orthodox Jewish community in Hackney and to survey reasons for non-uptake and attitudes to immunization and immunization services within this community.

Methods A total of 575 strictly orthodox Jewish children, aged under 2 5 years, were identified from three general practices in the community, and a random sampling of 100 of these children was carried out. The sample uptake recorded by family doctors was compared with District uptake rates. A questionnaire was administered to parents. The main outcome measures were immunization uptake rate, reasons for non-uptake, and attitudes to immunization. Results Percentage immunization uptake (95 per cent confidence intervals) was: third diphtheria 86 per cent (82–90 per cent); third pertussis 82 per cent (78–86 per cent); and MMR 79 per cent (75–85 per cent). District uptake rates for a cohort of the same age, and at the time of the study, were: third diphtheria 82 per cent; third pertussis 79 per cent; and MMR 83 per cent. Sixty-seven parents completed the questionnaire (72 per cent response) and their children's uptake was the same as for children of nonresponders. All parents thought immunization to be important.

ConclusionsFor all immunizations, uptake in the strictly orthodox Jewish community is not significantly different from that of the District. Responding parents had positive attitudes to the value and safety of immunizations but wished better access to services. Health professionals need to question their perceptions so that efforts to improve uptake amongst ethnic minority groups are based on facts and are responsive to identified needs.
Leigazoltam a zsidókhoz -- (A "társadalmi zsidó" identitás kialakulásának élettörténeti gyökereiről)
Translated Title: I have a certificate of not being an anti-Semite.
Author(s): Kovács, Éva; Vajda, Júlia
Date: 1994
Topics: Main Topic: Identity and Community, Jewish Schools, Jewish Revival, Assimilation, Jewish Identity, Jewish - Non - Jewish Relations
Abstract: Being non-Jewish in a Jewish community on the one hand, and being referred to as a „Jew" outside it is a tricky situation, in which the non-Jewish children sent to the newly founded Jewish elementary schools find themselves. Why do parents do that to their children? The answer lies in their individual life stories. The article demonstrates an individual
case of a father who struggles against his burdening family-past and unconscious anti-Semitism by becoming a „quasi-Jew" through sacrificing his daughter by sending her to a Jewish school
Nagyanyák, anyák és leányok: három zsidó menekült család asszonyai
Translated Title: Grandmothers, mothers and daughters: women of formerly displaced families in three Jewish communities
Author(s): Inowlocki, Lena
Date: 1994
Topics: Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Trauma, Age and Generational Issues, Jewish Women, Holocaust Survivors, Holocaust Survivors: Children of, Parenthood, Oral History and Biography
Abstract: The author discusses the question of what happens when generations in a family cannot talk to one another about what was most important for their lives. Those who experienced Nazi persecution, the loss of their family and the destruction of their community have since then been preoccupied by these events. But, at the same time, because of the intensity of the trauma, they have not been able to talk about this period of their lives. Most of their experience can not be turned into a story for the grandchildren who must be protected from knowing about the pain and absolute despair, the complete absence of meaning of the individual and collective suffering. How are these experiences represented in the family
communication? How does the older generation hand down the traditions to the younger generation? In the article the author analyses the three-generation
interviews she conducted in three different Jewish communities, Amsterdam, Antwerp and Frankfurt/Main while attempting to understand the phenomena of transmission.
A holocaust-szindróma megjelenése a pszichoterápiás gyakorlatban.
Author(s): Virág, Teréz
Date: 1994
Topics: Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Holocaust Survivors, Holocaust Survivors: Children of, Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis, Jewish Organisations
Abstract: The author is a Hungarian psychoanalyst who recently started to run Kut, a consultation and therapy center under the auspices of the Hungarian Jewish Cultural Association,
offering help to those who suffered directly or indirectly by the Holocaust. In her article she presents the activities of the centre, and illustrates them by exposing a few
cases.
Collective Identity and Urban Schooling: The Case of the London Jewish Community
Author(s): Bash, Leslie
Editor(s): Thomas, Elwyn
Date: 1994
Topics: Main Topic: Education, Jewish Schools, Jewish Identity, Jewish Community
De joden van België
Author(s): Abicht, Ludo
Date: 1994
Topics: Main Topic: Identity and Community
Gojse nijd & joods narcisme: Over de verhouding tussen joden en niet-joden in Nederland
Translated Title: Goyish envy & Jewish narcissism: On the relationship between Jews and non-Jews in the Netherlands
Author(s): Gans, Evelien
Date: 1994
Topics: Jewish - Non - Jewish Relations, Antisemitism, Main Topic: Other
Le concept de communauté comme catégorie de définition du judaïsme français
Translated Title: The concept of community as a category definition of French Judaism
Author(s): Trigano, Shmuel
Date: 1994
Topics: Jewish Community, Main Topic: Identity and Community
Abstract: Le concept de «communauté» fait partie de ces notions constamment invoquées et tenues pour évidentes mais qui ne réfèrent à aucune signification en particulier tout autant qu'elles renvoient aux multiples sens que les individus et les groupes projettent sur elles. C'est là ce qui attend sans doute les notions qui désignent à la fois une réalité définie et une valeur, un idéal jamais accomplis. La notion de démocratie fait exemplairement partie, au XIXe siècle, de cette catégorie de notions affluentes.
Reemerging Jewish Culture in Germany. Life and Literature since 1989
Editor(s): Gilman, Sander L.; Remmler, Karen
Date: 1994
Topics: Jewish Culture, Jewish Revival, Post-1989, Main Topic: Culture and Heritage
Abstract: How can there by a Jewish culture in today's Germany? Since the fall of the Wall, there has been a substantial increase in the visibility of Jews in German culture, not only an increase in the number of Jews living there, but, more importantly, an explosion of cultural activity. Jews are writing and making films about the central question of Jewish life after the Shoah.

Given the xenophobia that has marked Germany since reunification, the appearance of a new Jewish is both surprising and normalizing. Even more striking than the reappearance of Jewish culture in England after the expulsion and massacres of the Middle Ages, the presence of a new generation of Jewish writers in Germany is a sign of the complexity and tenacity of modern Jewish life in the Diaspora.

Edited by Sander L. Gilman and Karen Remmler and featuring works by many of the most noted specialists on the subject, including Susan Niemann, Y. Michael Bodemann, Marion Kaplan, Katharina Ochse, Robin Ostow, Rafael Seligmann, Jack Zipes, Jeffrey Peck, Kizer Walker, and Esther Dischereit, this volume explores the questions and doubts surrounding the revitalization of Jewish life in Germany. The writers cover such diverse topics as the social and institutional role that Jews now play, the role of religion in daily life, and gender and culture in post-Wall Jewish writing.
The Jews in Germany, 1945-1993: the Building of a Minority
Author(s): Cohn, Michael
Date: 1994
Topics: Post-1989, Post-War Reconstruction, Post-War Jewish History, Main Topic: Other
Abstract: Most Jews who now live in Germany have lived elsewhere. They are neither the remnant of those who survived the Holocaust nor those who are in transit to Israel or the United States. They are a disparate but vibrant and growing community of over 80,000 people. Forty thousand of them are members of official Jewish communities in today's Germany. Because of the Nazi past, this proportionately small number of individuals plays an out-of-scale role in German politics and world consciousness.
Jewish Identities in the New Europe
Editor(s): Webber, Jonathan
Date: 1994
Topics: Post-1989, Demography, Jewish Revival, Jewish Identity, Rabbis, Jewish Continuity, Holocaust Commemoration, Memory, Zionism, Main Topic: Identity and Community
Abstract: How do the Jews of post-Holocaust, post-communist Europe—east and west—regard themselves: as a religious minority, an ethnic group, or simply as ordinary members of the communities in which they live? How do they regard non-Jews and relate to the Jews of other European countries? Is Israel a factor in forging these relationships? In confronting these questions, the contributors to this book—all of them writers with significant international reputations—cover a wide range of topics from different perspectives.

Contents:
Introduction JONATHAN WEBBER
Part 1 A Changing Europe
1 The Jews of Europe in the Age of a New Völkerwanderung MAX BELOFF
2 Changing Jewish Identities in the New Europe and the Consequences for Israel ELIEZER SCHWEID
Part 2 Demographic and Sociological Considerations
3 An Overview of the Demographic Trends of European Jewry SERGIO DELLAPERGOLA
4 Modern Jewish Identities JONATHAN WEBBER
5 Judaism in the New Europe: Discovery or Invention? NORMAN SOLOMON
Part 3 Hopes and Uncertainties in Religious Trends
6 The Jewish Jew and Western Culture: Fallible Predictions for the Turn of the Century NORMAN LAMM
7 From Integration to Survival to Continuity: The Third Great Era of Modern Jewry JONATHAN SACKS
8 The Role of the Rabbi in the New Europe JONATHAN MAGONET
Part 4 Jewish Communities in Former Communist Countries
9 Jewish Communities and Jewish Identities in the Former Soviet Union MIKHAIL A. CHLENOV
10 Constructing New Identities in the Former Soviet Union: The Challenge for Jews IGOR KRUPNIK
11 Changes in Jewish Identity in Modern Hungary ANDRAS KOVACS
12 Jewish Identities in Poland: New, Old, and imaginary KONSTANTY GEBERT
Part 5 Jewish Communities in Western Europe
13 Israélites and Juifs: New Jewish Identities in France DOMINIQUE SCHNAPPER
14 The Notion of a 'Jewish Community' in France: A Special Case of Jewish Identity SHMUEL TRIGANO
15 British Jewry: Religious Community or Ethnic Minority? GEOFFREY ALDERMAN
16 Religious Practice and Jewish Identity in a Sample of London Jews STEPHEN H. MILLER
17 Jewish Identity in the Germany of a New Europe JULIUS CARLEBACH
Part 6 Rethinking Interfaith Relations in a Post-Holocaust World
18 The Dangers of Antisemitism in the New Europe ROBERT S. WISTRICH
19 The Holocaust as a Factor in Contemporary Jewish Consciousness EVYATAR FRIESEL
20 The Impact of Auschwitz and Vatican II on Christian Perceptions of Jewish Identity ELISABETH MAXWELL
21 A New Catholic-Jewish Relationship for Europe PIER FRANCESCO FUMAGALLI
22 Possible Implications of the New Age Movement for the Jewish People MARGARET BREARLEY
Part 7 Jewish Europe as Seen from Without
23 The New Europe and the Zionist Dilemma DANIEL GUTWEIN
24 Jewish Renewal in the New Europe: An American Jewish Perspective DAVID SINGE
The Jewish Journal of Sociology Volume 36 Number 2
Date: 1994
Abstract: The Partition Plan of Palestine and Zionist Proposals for the Beisan Valley
YOSSI KATZ
The Impact of the Gulf Crisis in Israel
MARIO SZNAJDER
Anglo-Jews: Their Chroniclers and Historians
MAX BELOFF
Judaism and Modernity: The Whole Agenda
NORMAN SOLOMON
Book Reviews
Chronicle
The Incorporation of a Stranger: Analysis of a Social Situation in a Welsh Valley
Author(s): Mars, Leonard
Date: 1994
Topics: Ethnography, Ritual, Small Jewish Communities, Rural and Small Town, Main Topic: Other
The Jewish Journal of Sociology Volume 36 Number 1
Date: 1994
Abstract: Responsa and Rulings Reflecting Some South African Issues
JOHN SIMON
The Incorporation of a Stranger: Analysis of a Social Situation in a Welsh Valley LEONARD MARS
Englishmen and Jews: A New Look
MAX BELOFF
The Aliyah of Jews from Ethiopia and the Reactions of Absorption Agencies
MOSHE LISSAK
Howard Brotz: 1922-1993
Interpreting Adversity: Dynamics of Commitment in a Messianic Redemption Campaign WILLIAM SHAFFIR
Book Reviews
Chronicle
Death of a language: the history of Judeo-Spanish
Author(s): Harris, Tracy K.
Date: 1994
Topics: Globalisation, Ladino, Language, Sephardi Jews, Diaspora, Main Topic: Culture and Heritage
Abstract: After expulsion from Spain in 1492, a large number of Spanish Jews (Sephardim) found refuge in lands of the Ottoman Empire. These Jews continued speaking a Spanish that, due to their isolation from Spain, developed independently in the empire from the various peninsular dialects. This language, called Judeo-Spanish (among other names), is the focus of Death of a Language, a sociolinguistic study describing the development of Judeo-Spanish from 1492 to the present, its characteristics, survival, and decline. To determine the current status of the language, Tracy K. Harris interviewed native Judeo-Spanish speakers from the sephardic communities of New York, Israel, and Los Angeles. This study analyzes the informants' use of the language, the characteristics of their speech, and the role of the language in Sephardic ethnicity.
Part I defines Judeo-Spanish, discusses the various names used to refer to the language, and presents a brief history of the Eastern Sephardim. The next part describes the language and its survival, first by examining the Spanish spoken by the Jews in pre-Expulsion Spain, and followed by a description of Judeo-Spanish as spoken in the Ottoman Empire, emphasizing the phonology, archaic features, new creations, euphemisms, proverbs, and foreign (non-Spanish) influences on the language. Finally, Harris discusses sociological or nonlinguistic reasons why Judeo-Spanish survived for four and one-half centuries in the Ottoman empire.
The third section of Death of a Language analyzes the present status and characteristics of Judeo-Spanish. This includes a description of the informants and the three Sephardic communities studied, as well as the present domains or uses of Judeo-Spanish in these communities. Current Judeo-Spanish shows extensive influences from English and Standard Spanish in the Judeo-Spanish spoken in the United States, and from Hebrew and French in Israel. No one under the age of fifty can speak it well enough (if at all) to pass it on to the next generation, and none of the informants' grandchildren can speak the language at all. Nothing is being done to ensure its perpetuation: the language is clearly dying.
Part IV examines the sociohistorical causes for the decline of Judeo-Spanish in the Levant and the United States, and presents the various attitudes of current speakers: 86 percent of the informants feel that the language is dying. A discussion of language and Sephardic identity from a sociolinguistic perspective comprises part V , which also examines Judeo-Spanish in the framework of dying languages in general and outlines the factors that contribute to language death. In the final chapter the author examines how a dying language affects a culture, specifically the role of Judeo-Spanish in Sephardic identity.
‘Greece is my home, but…’: ethnic identity of Greek Jews in Thessaloniki
Author(s): Lewkowicz, Bea
Date: 1994
Topics: Sephardi Jews, Ethnicity, Main Topic: Identity and Community
Современная семья у горских евреев Кабардино-Балкарии
Translated Title: Modern Family of the Mountain Jews of Kabardino-Balkaria
Author(s): Мурзаханов, Юрий Исаевич
Date: 1994
Topics: Ethnography, Family and Household, Mountain Jews, Main Topic: Other
Assessing the Jewish Educational Effectiveness of Jewish Community Centers -- The 1994 Survey
Author(s): , Steven M. Cohen; Barry Chazan
Date: 1994
Abstract: The 1994 study of Jewish educational activity in North American Jewish community centers shows almost universal intensification of levels of Jewish education over those reported in the 1988 study. By looking at the studies from 1982, 1988, and 1994, we are able to discover a revealing picture of the metamorphosis of Jewish education in Jewish Community Centers into a multidimensional cultural and recreational agency which has made Jewish education one of the dimensions of its being. These findings suggest that the most important change in the Center world has been the metamorphosis of a culture whereby "things Jewish" have become more rather than less of a norm in the Center world.
Why Intermarriage May Not Threaten Jewish Continuity
Author(s): , Steven M. Cohen
Date: 1994
Abstract:

The interfaith marriage rate is neither as high nor as hazardous as we often believe: We are losing Jews on the margins, but the center is holding. In Moment, v.19:6, December 1994.
Toward a "Grand Unified Theory" of Jewish Continuity
Author(s): , Jonathan S. Woocher
Date: 1994
Abstract: As with the search for a grand unified theory in physics, the author asserts, the effort to find a grand unified theory of Jewish continuity focuses not on rewriting individual theories, but on finding the connections among them. In this paper, he weaves together a large number of ideas and initiatives already in circulation regarding the nature of community, continuity, unity, strategy and tactics, in order to articulate the challenge and initiate the necessary discussion.
Building Bridges: the Denominations, Federations and Jewish Continuity
Author(s): , Sherry Israel
Date: 1994
Abstract:

The Reform and Conservative movements have joined the Jewish continuity conversation on the national level with the publication of two documents: "Jewish Education in the Conservative Movement: Leadership in the Continuity Process," issued in May 1993, and the UAHC Strategic Planning Task Force on Jewish Continuity and Growth's "Final Report," dated June 7, 1993. What do the documents say? And what can we say, on reading them, about the movements' participation in the bridge-building process?
Twentysomething and Jewish: Personal Reflections on Jewish Identity
Author(s): , Stephanie Bash; Keith Chertok; Debra Nussbaum Cohen; Elise Eplan
Date: 1994
Abstract:

This publication focuses on a generation whose voices are seldom heard in the Jewish community - the "twenty something" generation. It is a collection of personal essays, written by young people who share their frustrations and disappointments and their excitement and sense of fulfillment with Jewish life and the Jewish community. All are engaged in a twofold search: first, for meaningful ways of identifying as Jews, and second, for a sense of place - for community and roots.
Family Values and the Jews
Author(s): , Jack Wertheimer
Date: 1994
Abstract: Ever since the release of the finding that rates of intermarriage have surged in recent decades, leaders of the major American Jewish organizations have agonized over a crisis of "Jewish continuity" in this country. Yet in all the talk about Jewish continuity, little attention has been paid to the Jewish family. Quite apart from the high incidence of intermarriage, survey research provides ample evidence of rising rates of divorce and/or deferred marriage among Jews; of massive geographical dislocation which affects family cohesion; and of other symptoms, mainly stemming from the sexual revolution, that severely affect the Jewish family's ability to nurture a strong Jewish identity in its youth. In Commentary Magazine vol. 97 no.1, pp. 30-34 (January 1994).
The Secret of Jewish Continuity
Author(s): , Jonathan D. Sarna
Date: 1994
Abstract: Jewish continuity is the current rallying cry in all circles of American Jewry. But what exactly are the dangers facing the Jewish community? And, is continuity the right medicine for them? Ironically, in worrying about intermarriage, loss of Jewish identity, and related demographic challenges, American Jewish leaders may be underestimating what they are up against. For it is not only Jewish life in the U.S. that is being buffeted by change, but the larger American social environment. Ours is a moment of great transformation: of discontinuity. Just as external discontinuities challenge Jewish stability, so internal discontinuities may provide Jewish revitalization. In Commentary Magazine vol.88 no.4, pp. 55-58 (October 1994).
Promoting Jewish Intramarriage Through Increased Social Interaction
Author(s): , Edward Kagen; Jay Levenberg
Date: 1994
Abstract: The authors report results of a Cleveland area study designed to better understand the general factors that contribute to the high rate of intermarriage among Jewish singles, and to develop community and programmatic responses that can foster increased social interaction with the objective of promoting intramarriage. Please note: this document contains errors resulting from conversion from one digital file type to another.
A Guide for the New JCC Executive
Author(s): , Zev Hymowitz; William Grossman
Date: 1994
Abstract: The Jewish Community Centers Association of North America (JCCA) provides this guide for newly appointed center executives. Topics covered include getting started, the role of the executive, the president/executive partnership, executive tasks, and the goal-setting process. It also includes recommendations on staff recruitment and retention, agenda building, where to go for help, and building relationships with the Jewish Federation and the United Way.
Jewish Education and the Jewish Community Center
Author(s): , Barry Chazan; Mark Charendoff
Date: 1994
Abstract: This large anthology of articles comprehensively examines the field of Jewish Education as it is diversely practiced in Jewish Community Centers (JCCs). Topics covered include ideology and Jewish education; Jewish education staffing at JCCs; curriculum and other process aspects; settings and contexts for Jewish education; and connection to Israel as fostered by JCCs.
World Jewish Population 1992
Author(s): , Sergio DellaPergola; Uziel O. Schmelz
Date: 1994
Abstract:

The article presents the 1992 updates to the world Jewish population estimates. The country figures for 1992 were updated from those for 1991 in accordance with the known or estimated changes in the interval events, identificational changes, and migrations. Two important data-collection projects yielded important results: the 1989 official population census of the Soviet Union, and the 1990 NJPS in the United States. The respective results basically confirm both the estimates reported by us in previous AJYB volumes and our interpretation of the trends now prevailing in the demography of world Jewry. Their results basically confirm both the estimates reported by us in previous AJYB volumes and our interpretation of the trends now prevailing in the demography of world Jewry.
World Jewish Population, 1992
Author(s): , Sergio DellaPergola; Uziel O. Schmelz
Date: 1994
Abstract:

The article presents updates, for the end of 1992, on the population of world Jewry. The population estimates given below reflect a prolonged and ongoing effort to study scientifically the demography of contemporary world Jewry. Data collection and comparative research have benefited from the collaboration of scholars and institutions in many countries, including replies to direct inquiries regarding current estimates. in many countries, including replies to direct inquiries regarding current estimates.

 
Jewish Life Network / Steinhardt Foundation Ten Year Inaugural Report, 1994 - 2004
Author(s): , Irving ("Yitz") Greenberg; Michael Steinhardt; David Gedzelman
Date: 1994
Abstract: This report chronicles the first ten years of the efforts of the Jewish Life Network / Steinhardt Foundation to equip American Jews with sufficient education and experiences so that Judaism becomes a natural extension of their lives and identities. The report includes a message from founder Michael Steinhardt, a review of guiding principles of the organization by Rabbi Irving Greenberg, a general overview by Rabbi David Gedzelman, and overviews of the foundation's activities, including programs, investments, donations, CONTACT: The Journal of Jewish Life Network / Steinhardt Foundation, plans for the future, financial status, and leadership.