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Being and Becoming. Polish Conversions to Judaism and the Dynamics of Affiliation.
Author(s): Lorenz, Jan
Date: 2021
Topics: Conversion, Affiliation and Belonging, Main Topic: Identity and Community, Jewish Identity, Jewish Community
Counting as one: Moral encounters and criteria of affinity in a Polish Jewish congregation
Translated Title: En être: enjeux moraux et critères d’affinité dans une congrégation juive polonaise
Author(s): Lorenz, Jan
Date: 2015
Topics: Main Topic: Identity and Community, Jewish Revival, Jewish Community, Ethnography, Synagogues, Jewish Peoplehood, Jewish Communal Politics
Abstract: The resurgence and transformation of Poland’s Jewish communal institutions and religious life in the last twenty years has inspired debate concerning the criteria for being and becoming Jewish. The voices in that discussion come not only from different generations, but also from different geographies of Jewish life. Drawing on fieldwork in a contemporary Jewish congregation in Poland, this article discusses ethics in the context of different rationalities of affinity. Poland’s “Jewish revival” confronted values and affects grounded in intergenerational experiences of the post-Holocaust era with categories of belonging and religious conversion enabled by new laws, transnational programs of education and socialization, and the impact of religious leaders from abroad. The apparent incommensurability of these standpoints, and the taxing attempts at their reconciliation, invite us to reconceptualize the notion of moral tradition.
Non-Traditional Ways of Joining the Jewish Collective: The FSU Experience
Author(s): Lorenz, Jan
Editor(s): Fisher, Netanel; Parfitt, Tudor
Date: 2016
Topics: Conversion, Jewish Revival, Main Topic: Identity and Community
Polish Newcomers to Jewishness: A Reflection in the Wake of the Revival
Author(s): Lorenz, Jan
Editor(s): Fisher, Netanel; Parfitt, Tudor
Date: 2016
Topics: Conversion, Jewish Revival, Main Topic: Identity and Community
Shades Of Closeness. Belonging And Becoming In A Contemporary Polish Jewish Community
Author(s): Lorenz, Jan
Editor(s): Diemling, Maria; Ray, Larry
Date: 2016
Topics: Jewish Identity, Boundaries, Jewish Community, Affiliation and Belonging, Main Topic: Identity and Community
Remaking Jewish sociality in contemporary Poland: haunting legacies, global connections.
Author(s): Lorenz, Jan
Date: 2013
Topics: Jewish Community, Jewish Revival, Memory, Holocaust, Main Topic: Other