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Modelli Educativi E Forme Di Acculturazione

Translated Title: Educational models and forms of acculturation

Author(s): Meghnagi, Saul

Date: 2010

Topics: Main Topic: Identity and Community, Memory

Abstract: Jews are, according to the author, the result of a continuous interaction with history and with other human groups among which they happened to live. In this process of incessant transformation, Jews acquired their specific patterns of understanding reality. The way of transmitting memories, and their contents, are in general one of the main features of Judaism. In this article, the author tries to identify and to explain the content of the collective memory of Italian Jews at the time of the country's political unification as well as nowadays.

Cosmopolitan but Slightly Worried: Survey of Young Italian Jews

Author(s): Meghnagi, Saul; Sonnino, Melissa; Techiouba, Ariel

Date: 2012

Topics: Immigration, Intermarriage, Jewish Identity, Young Adults / Emerging Adulthood, Youth, Surveys, Main Topic: Identity and Community

Abstract: This applied research contributes to the field of emerging adulthood studies. 144 young adults aged 18-35 coming from communities all over Italy were surveyed through an online questionnaire. Participants presented different levels of religious observance. 45% of young Italian Jews cited culture as the most important definition of Judaism, over family bonds (28%), religion (21%) and emotional ties (6%). Interestingly, 46% of participants declared being at least as religious as their parents and 32% even more religious. Young Italian Jews are divided over the issue of life partners and mixed marriages. Young Italian Jews are proud of Israel. The great majority of respondents (92%) did not view moving to Israel as a necessary condition for the future of Judaism. It was above all in the small communities where youngsters reported immigrants being hostile towards Jews (43%).