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The Return to Judaism in the Netherlands
Author(s): Mock-Degen, Minny E.
Editor(s): Kaplan, Yosef; Michman, Dan
Date: 2017
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Religious Observance and Practice, Jewish Renewal, Jewish Revival, Baal Teshuvah
The dynamics of becoming Orthodox Dutch Jewish women returning to Judaism and how their mothers felt about it
Author(s): Mock-Degen, Minny E.
Date: 2013
Topics: Orthodox Judaism, Jewish Women, Baal Teshuvah, Motherhood, Main Topic: Identity and Community
Abstract: The return to Judaism or the teshuvah experience emerged in the mid 1960s when young American Jews became involved in a spiritual search that eventually led them to discover and embrace Orthodox Judaism. It signalled the start of what would become a widespread phenomenon. Within a relatively short period, thousands of Jews in the United States, Israel, Britain, France, the Soviet Union, South Africa, the Netherlands and other countries committed themselves to Orthodox Judaism and became observant. A Jew who returns to Orthodox Judaism is known as a ba’al teshuvah; for a women the term is ba’alat teshuvah (plural forms: ba’alei and ba’a lot teshuvah respectively).

This study of ba’alat teshuvah in the Netherlands is a qualitative and exploratory investigation on how Dutch returnee woman and their mothers experienced, perceived and interpreted the return to Orthodox Judaism. In short: How do these returnees and their mothers feel about the religious intensification? In this context the research also pays attention to the ways in which the Dutch returnees became involved with Orthodox Judaism, how they found their religious niche and whether their becoming Orthodox impacted on intergenerational and multigenerational relationships.