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Between Symbolic Distancing and Following Desires: Conversion to Judaism among Women in Germany
Author(s):
Rau, Vanessa
Date:
2023
Topics:
Conversion, Gender, Interviews, Oral History and Biography, Main Topic: Other, Narrative, Religious Observance and Practice
Abstract:
Over the past decades, Judaism and Jewishness have been subject to transformation and more fluid boundaries. This article looks at women’s conversions to Judaism in Germany. Analyzing differing biographical trajectories, the article shows how individuals negotiate their desire to become Jewish, which is often closely related to an experience in Israel and a Jewish partner. Arguing that the context makes the conversion, I show how desires and negotiations are deeply entangled with the socio-historical context of German society as well as with the erotic and sexuality. I demonstrate how becoming Jewish presents a way of symbolically distancing oneself from biographical experiences of difference, which are negotiated in and through the conversion. As these conversions are not uncontested, I also show how becoming part of Jewish socialities evokes a negotiation of one’s positionality at the intersection of gender and religion.
Zwischen Tradition und Freiheit. Religion, Säkularität und Religionsfreiheit aus jüdischer Perspektive
Translated Title:
Between tradition and freedom: Religion, secularity and religious freedom from a Jewish perspective
Author(s):
Rau, Vanessa; Peretz, Dekel
Editor(s):
Rau, Vanessa; Nicoubin, Mahyar
Date:
2023
Topics:
Main Topic: Other, Religion and State, Jewish - Non - Jewish Relations
Turning the Kaleidoscope and Religious Pluralism Inside-Out: The Case of Berlin’s Jewish Scene
Author(s):
Rau, Vanessa
Editor(s):
Bock, Jan-Jonathan; Fahy, John; Everett, Samuel
Date:
2019
Topics:
Main Topic: Other, Cities and Suburbs, Jewish Community, Jewish Culture, Diversity