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“The First Jewish Person I’ve Ever Met”: Insights From a Field Study on Jewish–non-Jewish Contact in Germany
Author(s): Kazarovytska, Fiona; Ionescu, Dana
Date: 2024
Topics: Jewish - Non - Jewish Relations, Dialogue, Conflict Resolution, Main Topic: Other, Qualitative Research, Psychology
Abstract: What happens when non-Jewish Germans, most of whom do not know any Jews personally, meet a Jew? We present field data from a nationwide intervention program that promotes dialogue between Jewish volunteers and non-Jewish people in Germany. Applying a mixed-methods approach, we analyzed responses from N = 385 attendees who served as initiators of the intervention for a larger group. The initiators shared their insights into the opinion of the group regarding the intervention, along with the feedback they received from the group. Compared to before the intervention, the attitudes of intervention attendees toward Jews were perceived by initiators as significantly more positive both up to one month after the intervention, and at the end of the year in which the intervention took place. Mediation analyses indicated that perspective-taking (rather than increased intergroup knowledge or reduced anxiety) was the most important intermediate factor for this outcome. A qualitative content analysis corroborated the primacy of perspective-taking, and shed light on further factors contributing to a (non-)successful intervention. We discuss the relevance of direct contact experiences in a context in which interactions between non-Jewish and Jewish people are limited but narratives of historical intergroup crimes are omnipresent.
Über Das Motiv Des „Rechtsbrechenden Juden“ In Der Deutschen Kontroverse Um Kulturell-Religiöse Vorhautbeschneidungen 2012
Translated Title: On the motif of the "law-breaking Jew" in the German controversy about cultural-religious foreskin circumcisions 2012
Author(s): Ionescu, Dana
Editor(s): Grimm, Marc; Kahmann, Bodo
Date: 2018
Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Media, Antisemitism: Discourse, Circumcision / Brit Milah
Judenbilder in der deutschen Beschneidungskontroverse
Author(s): Ionescu, Dana
Date: 2018
Topics: Antisemitism, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Discourse, Circumcision / Brit Milah, Media, Newspapers, Magazines and Periodicals
Abstract: In Deutschland entspannt sich 2012 eine vehement geführte Kontroverse um kulturell-religiöse Vorhautbeschneidungen von männlichen Säuglingen und Jungen. Obwohl diese Kontroverse eine enorme Wirkung auf Jüdinnen/Juden hatte, blieb sie von der deutschsprachigen Antisemitismusforschung weitestgehend unbeachtet. Die Studie nimmt die Argumentationen der BeschneidungsgegnerInnen in den Blick und rekonstruiert die enthaltenen Judenbilder sowie deren Verhältnis zu antisemitischen Motiven. Die empirische Analyse basiert auf einem umfassenden Textkorpus, der sich aus medizinischen, psychoanalytischen und rechtswissenschaftlichen Publikationen sowie Artikeln aus Tageszeitungen, Online-Kommentaren und narrativen themenzentrierten Interviews mit BeschneidungsgegnerInnen zusammensetzt. Indem das Verhältnis von Antisemitismus und der Ablehnung von kulturell-religiösen Vorhautbeschneidungen präzise herausgearbeitet wird, lassen sich Facetten der Kontroverse als Ausprägungen eines gegenwärtigen Antisemitismus verstehen.