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Community building and identity construction in the Moishe house : Dor Hadash community in Budapest
Author(s): Karsay, Noémi
Date: 2011
Topics: Post-1989, Jewish Revival, Jewish Community, Young Adults / Emerging Adulthood, Interviews, Main Topic: Identity and Community
Abstract: The present thesis is about the history and the members of the Dor Hadash community in Budapest, currently housed in Moishe House. I interviewed the congregation’s rabbi and eight of its members for my research. My interviewees were born between 1979 and 1991, they all belong to the generation who grew up around the fall of Communism and experienced the new era as teenagers and young adults. This radically sets them apart from the generation of their parents and grandparents who partially or completely abandoned Jewish tradition because of the trauma of the Shoah and the Communist regime’s restriction of religious activity. Despite the often lacking Jewish traditions in their families, or very often exactly as a result of these, many young individuals of this new generation, including my interviewees made a choice, the choice of returning to Jewish tradition and they dove headfirst into the newly emerging options that sprung up after 1990