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Religious and Non-religious Forms of Hospitality: Muslim and Jewish Engagement in Welcoming Newcomers in Britain
Author(s): Braginskaia, Ekaterina
Date: 2023
Topics: Interfaith Dialogue, Inter-Communal Relations, Interfaith Relations, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Immigration, Main Topic: Other, Care and Welfare, Synagogues
Ethics without borders: solidarity and difference in inter-community dialogue
Author(s): Egorova, Yulia
Date: 2023
Topics: Ethnography, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Inter-Communal Relations, Interfaith Dialogue, Main Topic: Other
Abstract: The article offers an ethnographically embedded analysis of a UK-based Jewish-Muslim inter-community network to contribute to anthropological research into the ethical efforts that groups seen as polarized invest in negotiating boundaries of difference. The article makes two sets of arguments. First, it suggests that sometimes such groups have to negotiate not one but several ‘borders across difference’ and follow diverse ethical routes to navigate them depending upon how they conceptualize these borders. Second, it shows that in negotiating different sets of boundaries, network members often use techniques that at first glance appear to be artificial or even superficial in that they build on formal rules and/or contain no promise of achieving a consensus on issues important for the participants. However, I argue that these seemingly superficial efforts could still be seen as ethical endeavours underpinned by a strong commitment to inter-group solidarity and that they could be best understood as what Ruth Sheldon has described in her recent intervention in the ethics of Jewish ethnography as the movement between surface and depth.
Common difference: Conceptualising simultaneity and racial sincerity in Jewish-Muslim relations in the United Kingdom
Author(s): Egorova, Yulia
Date: 2023
Topics: Interfaith Dialogue, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Anthropology, Ethnography, Main Topic: Other, Race
Abstract: Building upon ethnographic research conducted among participants in UK-based initiatives in Jewish-Muslim dialogue, the paper contributes to anthropological literature on the essentialising nature of state-sponsored constructions of minoritised groups. More specifically, I put forward two sets of arguments. Firstly, I suggest a concept of simultaneity that challenges colonially inflected conceptualisations of the relationship between communities and their respective traditions. Activists of Jewish-Muslim inter-community work subvert dominant conceptualisations of intergroup commonalities and divergencies by developing a theorisation of Jewish-Muslim relations that acknowledges group similarities and differences as overlapping categories. Secondly, I contribute to John Jackson's (2005) theorisation of racial sincerity, a notion offering a conceptual challenge to the notion of authenticity. I argue that the complexity of my interlocutors’ thematisations of Jewish-Muslim relations underpinned by the diversity of the sources of knowledge that they rely on could be best understood as an example of this analytic. On a broader theoretical plane, the paper proposes a framework that underscores the agentive power of minority communities and pays close attention to the way they define their positionalities vis-à-vis the majorities and each other in ways that go beyond binaries-based theorisations.
The Meaning of Jewish-Muslim Relations in Europe for Christian Education: Potentials and Limitations of a Three-Way Conversation
Author(s): Schweitzer, Friedrich
Editor(s): Aslan, Ednan; Rausch, Margaret
Date: 2019
Topics: Jewish - Muslim Relations, Main Topic: Other, Dialogue, Interfaith Dialogue, Jewish - Christian Relations, Religious Education, Christianity
Abstract: This chapter, written from the perspective of Christian religious education, considers the meaning of Jewish-Muslim relations in Europe in terms of Christian education. The subtitle intentionally avoids the more current term of “trialogue” by referring to “three-way conversations” in a more neutral and technical manner. The reason behind this choice of terminology is not that the concept of “trialogue” is rejected altogether, but that the use of this concept in religious education discussions is often limited to the normative vision of bringing the three so-called Abrahamic religions together in a peaceful union. In many cases, this normative vision operates at the expense of a more analytical approach, which also considers the specific difficulties that arise in three-way conversations between the three religions. Against the background of such observations, the chapter describes and critically discusses the understanding of “trialogue” in religious education. Among other things, it shows that the idea of an Abrahamic religious unity makes less sense from a Christian point of view than from the perspective of Judaism and Islam, especially in the context of education and in respect to religious practices in the three religions. At the same time, the chapter emphasizes the need for educational approaches that do justice to the historical backgrounds of the different forms of coexistence and encounter between the three religions as well as their meaning for religious education today.
Salam Shalom Barcelona, is Muslim-Jewish Dialogue Possible?
Author(s): El-Hairan, Zouhair; Martinez-Cuadros, Rosa
Editor(s): Aslan, Ednan; Rausch, Margaret
Date: 2019
Topics: Jewish - Muslim Relations, Main Topic: Other, Dialogue, Interfaith Dialogue
Abstract: In March 2017 Salam Shalom Barcelona started as an initiative aimed at enhancing interreligious relations and dialogue between Jews and Muslims living in the city. This initiative followed the steps of a former one that was established in Germany in 2013 called Salam Shalom. Despite Salam Shalom Barcelona’s short history, the promoted activities have shown that it can be a successful project with a high future potential. However, establishing interreligious dialogue is not an easy endeavor. It has to take into account different historical, political and social issues that impact the religious groups and communities. Therefore, this chapter aims to explain the Salam Shalom Barcelona initiative within the historical and social context of Spain, in order to enhance our understanding of its complexities and challenges. On the one hand, it presents a short introduction of the historiographical discussion regarding interreligious relations during the medieval period in Spain, considered by many historians to be exceptional and to serve as a model of culture of tolerance and convivencia. On the other, the chapter describes the main characteristics of the Jewish and Muslim communities in Barcelona. Broadly speaking, the chapter aims to show the importance of analysing and identifying the complexities, difficulties and challenges of the Muslim-Jewish dialogue in the current Catalan context, as well as contributing to future perspectives of this dialogue.
Kontinuität und Aktualität des Antisemitismus
Translated Title: Continuity and topicality of anti-Semitism
Editor(s): Polak, Regina
Date: 2023
Topics: Antisemitism, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Education against, Interfaith Dialogue
Abstract: In diesem Band werden anlässlich des Gedenkens an die Gesera 1421 inter- und transdisziplinäre Analysen des aktuellen Antisemitismus dokumentiert sowie Handlungsperspektiven zu seiner Bekämpfung aufgezeigt. Die Befunde renommierter Expert:innen belegen die historische Kontinuität sowie die demokratiepolitische Brisanz des Antisemitismus, der die jüdische Bevölkerung und die soziale Kohäsion in Österreich bedroht. Die multiperspektivische Annäherung, die Verschränkung zwischen Theorie und Praxis wie auch der intergenerationale Diskurs geben Antworten auf die Frage, warum man sich fast 80 Jahre nach dem Ende der Shoah nach wie vor mit Antisemitismus auseinandersetzen muss.

HANNES SWOBODA, CONSTANTIN LAGER
Vorwort
REGINA POLAK
Kontinuität und Aktualität des Antisemitismus.Eine österreichische und globale Herausforderung
MARTHA KEIL
„Judenbilder“ und Stereotype – von der Wiener Gesera 1421 bis heute
MARTIN JÄGGLE
Erinnerung an die Wiener Gesera.Zur Notwendigkeit einer erneuerten Erinnerungskultur
RABBI ANDREW BAKER
Combating Antisemitism in the Twenty-First Century
ANDREAS PEHAM
„Plandemie“ und „Great Reset“: Zum antisemitischen Kern aktueller Verschwörungsmythen
DORON RABINOVICI
Nur der Andere ist heute noch Antisemit. Einige Beobachtungen zur Debatte
RUTH WODAK
Analyzing antisemitic Feindbilder
WOLFGANG TREITLER
Christlicher Antijudaismus und seine Aktualität
RICHARD BLÄTTEL
Der Antisemitismus als Krankengeschichte des Geistes. Eine Diagnose aus der Sicht jüdischer Exegese
MARTIN ROTHGANGEL
Antisemitismusbekämpfung durch Bildung!?
YUVAL KATZ-WILFING
Reden gegen Hass. Interreligiöser Dialog als Weg zum Abbau von Antisemitismus
PETER MENASSE
Nie wieder! Aber was eigentlich? Oder: Antisemitismus als komplexes System
AMBER WEINBER
Junge Perspektiven I.
ANNA DAVOGG
Junge Perspektiven II. Das Café Abraham Wien – ein Ort des interreligiösen Lernens
Jews and Muslims in London and Amsterdam: Conflict and Cooperation, 1990-2020
Author(s): Vellenga, Sipco J.; Wiegers, Gerard A.
Date: 2023
Topics: Antisemitism: Muslim, Islamophobia, Israel Criticism, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Interfaith Dialogue, Main Topic: Other
Abstract: This book focuses on the development of bilateral Jewish-Muslim relations in London and Amsterdam since the late-1980s. It offers a comparative analysis that considers both similarities and differences, drawing on historical, social scientific, and religious studies perspectives. The authors address how Jewish-Muslim relations are related to the historical and contemporary context in which they are embedded, the social identity strategies Jews and Muslims and their institutions employ, and their perceived mutual positions in terms of identity and power. The first section reflects on the history and current profile of Jewish and Muslim communities in London and Amsterdam and the development of relations between Jews andMuslims in both cities. The second section engages with sources of conflict and cooperation. Four specific areas that cause tension are explored: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; antisemitism and Islamophobia; attacks by extremists; and the commemoration of wars and genocides. In addition to ‘trigger events’, what stands out is the influence of historical factors, public opinion, the ‘mainstream’ Christian churches and the media, along with the role of government. The volume will be of interest to scholars from fields including religious studies, interfaith studies, Jewish studies, Islamic studies, urban studies, European studies, and social sciences as well as members of the communities concerned, other religious communities, journalists, politicians, and teachers who are interested in Jewish-Muslim relations.
Sonic Spaces for Community Building Across Religions: The Interreligious Choir of Frankfurt
Author(s): Illman, Ruth; Smith, W. Alan
Date: 2018
Topics: Jewish - Christian Relations, Jewish Music, Main Topic: Other, Music, Liturgy, Interfaith Dialogue
Learning the Language of the Other? Hebrew and Arabic in Two Parisian Associations
Author(s): Hathroubi, Samia
Editor(s): Gidley, Ben; Everett, Samuel Sami
Date: 2022
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Interfaith Dialogue, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Dialogue, Language, Education: Adult Education, Ethnography
Abstract: This paper analyses interactions between Jews and Muslims in Paris through a case-study of two Parisian not for profit organizations: Centre Culturel Dalâla and Parler en Paix. The aim of both organizations is to teach Hebrew and Arabic language to students of all levels. Based on fieldwork carried out within these organizations and through participant observation of their classes and cultural activities, I investigate the interpersonal relationships they create between Jews and Muslims on the one hand, and within each group on the other. Using a comparative approach, the paper discusses Jewish-Muslim relations, an often overlooked field within interreligious studies. It proposes an investigation through three perspectives: the generational, the memorial and post-colonial, and finally the transnational into which the Muslim-Jewish relationship in France is embedded allowing us to go beyond both irenic or binary visions of the relationship between Jews and Muslims in France, leaving behind a vision marked by an often tragic present.
Precarious Companionship: Discourses of Adversity and Commonality in Jewish-Muslim Dialogue Initiatives in Germany
Author(s): Nagel, Alexander-Kenneth; Peretz, Dekel
Date: 2022
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Interfaith Dialogue, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Dialogue
Abstract: Muslims and Jews are an integral part of interreligious activism in Germany. They share a stricter notion of monotheism as compared to Christians. Local Jewish-Muslim dialogue takes place in the shadow of the Middle East conflict as well as radical Islamic terror attacks, and both pursue similar interests, i.e. regarding circumcision and halal or kosher butchering. We explore how the multi-layered setting shapes Jewish-Muslim encounters within interreligious initiatives in Germany. We analyse discourses in two spheres of interreligious dialogue. The first is local in-person dialogue initiatives that took place in the years 2011/12 during the circumcision debate. The second is translocal dialogue activities presented in social media that took place in 2020 when dialogue had moved to digital frameworks and social media due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The focal point of our comparative analysis is the discourses of adversity and commonality shaping these conversations and the narratives of difference and unity they produce.
Investeren in dialoog en verbinding: Een verkenning van initiatieven tussen de joodse en islamitische gemeenschap
Translated Title: Investing in Dialogue and Connection: An Exploration of Initiatives Between the Jewish and Muslim Community
Date: 2017
Topics: Inter-Communal Relations, Interfaith Dialogue, Interfaith Relations, Dialogue, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Main Topic: Other
Abstract: Het Joods Islamitisch Platform Amstelveen (JIP), de ambtswoninggesprekken in Amsterdam en het samenwerkingsproject ‘Leer je buren kennen’. Dit zijn praktijkvoorbeelden die de verbinding tussen joodse en islamitische gemeenschappen versterken. De voorbeelden zijn verzameld in de publicatie "Investeren in dialoog en verbinding" die de Expertise-unit Sociale Stabiliteit maakte (ESS).
Representations of Jewish-Muslim Relations in Contemporary France
Author(s): Bharat, Adi Saleem
Date: 2020
Topics: Jewish - Muslim Relations, Interfaith Dialogue, Interfaith Relations, Inter-Communal Relations, Main Topic: Other
Abstract: This thesis examines representations of Jewish-Muslim relations in contemporary French newspaper discourse, literary writing, and interreligious dialogue initiatives. Specifically, it analyses the extent to which a dominant discourse of inherently tense binary Jewish-Muslim relations exists and how individual Jewish and Muslim writers and interreligious dialogue activists navigate this difficult socio-political terrain. While I conceptualize some aspects of literary writing and interreligious dialogue as counter-narratives, this thesis does not simply seek to counterbalance the dominant narrative of polarization found in the media, but to demonstrate, first, how this narrative constructs public Jewish and Muslim identities and shapes the terrain on which interactions between Jews and Muslims occur. My thesis reveals that Jewish and Muslim writers and interreligious activists are deeply invested in challenging the oppositional model of Jewish-Muslim relations. However, my research also suggests that their level of success depends in large part on their ability to navigate normative understandings of Jewishness and Muslimness that are often overdetermined by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. First, this thesis traces how Jewish-Muslim relations are defined and constructed in the media, focusing on the national dailies Le Monde and Le Figaro due to their considerable agenda-setting and framing power as elite and prestigious sites of journalistic expression. Subsequently, I consider how a set of contemporary novelists, Emilie Frèche, Thierry Cohen, and Nadia Hathroubi-Safsaf, formulate their visions of intergroup relations within this broader context. The novelists in this project have been included in the extent to which their works can be read as—and often are explicitly stated by these authors to be—a set of political interventions into the contemporary and highly politicized category of Jewish-Muslim relations. Finally, I examine how Jewish and Muslim activists promote interreligious dialogue and the challenges they face in doing so within a French republican framework that privileges the non-differentiation of ethnoreligious specificities. I conclude that the initiatives most likely to effectively challenge the dominant model of polarized Jewish-Muslim relations in contemporary France are those that de-emphasize Jewishness and Muslimness as separate and mutually exclusive categories, and instead emphasize hybrid identities and shared histories, while adopting an embodied, differentiated approach to solidarity.
Jews and Muslims in London: Navigating between commonalities and differences in a superdiverse city
Author(s): van Esdonk, Susanne
Date: 2020
Topics: Jewish - Muslim Relations, Interfaith Dialogue, Interfaith Relations, Inter-Communal Relations, Dialogue, Main Topic: Other
Abstract: This thesis seeks to answer the question of how Jews and Muslims in London configured constructive engagement between 2014 and 2016 and how the interplay between various factors influenced the way in which engagement was forged and sustained. It demonstrates how Jewish-Muslim engagement is frequently situational, forged in response to certain trigger events and circumstances such as the intensification of transnational conflicts, changes in national government and developments in the composition of local neighbourhoods. Concerning the configuration of constructive engagement, the thesis demonstrates an interplay between goals and substantive approaches and that the capacity to forge and sustain engagement depends highly on actors and funding opportunities, as well as the (successful) application of strategies to deal with difficulties and tensions. Together, the multitude of actors, goals and approaches and the plethora of influential contextual factors create a highly diverse and widely dispersed landscape of Jewish-Muslim engagement in London.
Jews and Muslims in Dubai, Berlin, and Warsaw: Interactions, Peacebuilding Initiatives, and Improbable Encounters
Author(s): Zoufalá, Marcela Menachem; Dyduch, Joanna; Glöckner, Olaf
Date: 2022
Topics: Jewish - Muslim Relations, Interfaith Dialogue, Interfaith Relations, Main Topic: Other
Abstract: What is the nature of interactions between Jews and Muslims in contemporary Dubai, Berlin, and Warsaw? The purpose of the three presented case studies is to evaluate the state of affairs and identify newly emerging trends and patterns in the given trans-urban context. The methodology is based on qualitative anthropological research, emphasising an emic perspective that centralises respondents’ own lived experiences and worldviews. The main research’s findings made evident that interactions between Muslims and Jews in each examined location are, to various extents, acknowledged, and in some cases, also embody a formative part of public discourses. Perhaps the most visible manifestations of these relations are represented by the ambitious interfaith projects that were recently established in each geographical area in focus. The Abrahamic Family House (UEA), The House of One (GE), and The Community of Conscience (PL) reveal the aspirations of multi-faith religious leaders to overcome polarising dichotomies and search for common ground. One of the conclusive outcomes of the study is a somewhat diminishing impact of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict on the Jewish–Muslim relations; however, the extent differs in each destination in focus. Finally, an unpredicted observation can be made. A surfacing inclination towards embracing a joint Muslim–Jewish Middle Eastern identity was perceived
Building bridges, negotiating boundaries: young Christians’, Jews’ and Muslims’ experiences of interfaith work in the UK
Author(s): Törning, Lenita
Date: 2021
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Interfaith Dialogue, Interfaith Relations, Jewish - Christian Relations, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Young Adults / Emerging Adulthood, Youth
Abstract: This thesis focuses on young Christians’, Jews’ and Muslims’ experiences of interfaith work in the UK and what impact(s) being involved in interfaith might have on their religious, social, ethical and political identities. It is situated in a growing academic and policy interest in interfaith work as a means to build cohesive communities, mitigate tension and conflicts, and encourage active citizenship. It also engages with still under-explored questions around how young people active in interfaith work are affected by this activism. The aim is not only to understand how and why young people from different religions are involved in interfaith work, but also the impact being involved in interfaith work might have on young people’s identities and sense of belonging. Focusing on the biographical accounts of young Christians, Jews and Muslims involved in three different interfaith organisations in UK, the thesis explores how the young people have become interested in interfaith work; the relationships, messages and contexts that have been important in forging this interest and activism; what interfaith work means to them socially, theologically, ethically and politically; and the challenges they have experienced with this form of faith-based engagement. Drawing on Kate Tilleczek’s ‘complex cultural nesting approach’, this thesis attends to the young people’s complex personal experiences of interfaith work and the different social actors, contexts and frameworks that have been important in forming this interest. The thesis shows that, to understand young people’s interfaith work, we need a multidimensional approach that considers social and theological dimensions in young people’s lives; look at how interfaith work is a means to fulfil social and political goals, but also forms of theological commitment; and explore how challenges facing interfaith work inform young people’s experiences in different ways, particularly theological, social and political tension in relation to interfaith space, religious congregations and British society at large.
The Righteous of the Transnation: Jews, Muslims, and a Politics of Friendship in Berlin
Author(s): Heins, Volker M.
Editor(s): Tognato, Carlo; Jaworsky, Bernadette Nadya; Alexander, Jeffrey C.
Date: 2020
Topics: Jewish - Muslim Relations, Interfaith Dialogue, Interfaith Relations, Conflict Resolution, Main Topic: Other, Refugees
Abstract: Building on Jeffrey Alexander’s conception of civil repair, this chapter outlines and contextualizes the story of the Salaam-Shalom Initiative, which emerged in late 2013 in Berlin around a small group of Jewish residents who were later joined by Muslims and others. During the refugee crisis, Salaam-Shalom made headlines through a series of interventions aimed at combining a politics of openness toward the unexpected wave of asylum seekers with its broader agenda of improving the relations among migrant minorities in Germany. The central point is that Salaam-Shalom, like other multicultural solidarity movements, is engaged in an affective politics of civil repair that complicates Alexander’s dichotomy of “brotherhood and otherhood” by breaking down the umbrella categories of Germans and foreigners, Jews and Muslims.
Paradoxes and limitations in enacting Jewish-Muslim dialogue in contemporary France: case studies of interreligious and intercultural dialogue initiatives
Author(s): Bharat, Adi Saleem
Date: 2021
Topics: Jewish - Muslim Relations, Interfaith Dialogue, LGBT, Main Topic: Other, Secularity, Nationalism, Citizenship
Abstract: This article examines the extent to which Jewish-Muslim inter-religious/cultural dialogue initiatives in France are negatively affected by the dominant paradigm of republican universalism and state secularism in France. It focuses on the relations between, on the one hand, the Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA) and the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme (mahJ) and, on the other hand, Beit Haverim and Homosexuels musulmans de France (HM2F) to highlight the key challenges such initiatives face. In addition, this article suggests that the ineffectiveness of some contemporary interreligious initiatives in France results from both the inherent difficulty in navigating the republican universalist framework and the failure of such initiatives to acknowledge, mediate, and challenge the historical and contemporary role of the state in shaping the relations between Jews and Muslims.
Jewish Christians, Messianic Jews, and the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) in Christian-Jewish Encounters since 1945: An Overview
Author(s): Laepple, Ulrich
Date: 2021
Topics: Jewish - Christian Relations, Interfaith Dialogue, Main Topic: Other, Messianic Jews
Messianische Juden - eine Provokation
Editor(s): Laepple, Ulrich
Date: 2016
Topics: Jewish - Christian Relations, Main Topic: Other, Messianic Jews, Interfaith Dialogue
Abstract: Messianische Juden werden oft als eine Provokation empfunden - hier in Deutschland besonders. Die meisten Synagogen wie die offiziellen Kirchen halten sich auf kritischer Distanz. Aber wer sind die Messianischen Juden? Warum stoßen sie auf Widerstand? Welche Fragen werfen sie mit ihrer Existenz und mit ihrer Theologie auf? Sind sie eine Bedrohung oder eine Bereicherung des christlich-jüdischen Dialogs? Die im christlich-jüdischen Dialog erfahrenen Autoren aus unterschiedlichen Landeskirchen der EKD wollen mit den Beiträgen dieses Buchs Brücken des Verständnisses bauen und zentrale Fragen zur Einordnung der Bewegung beleuchten.
Commitment without Borders: Jewish-Muslim Relations and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Habitus in Berlin
Author(s): Becker, Elizabeth
Date: 2019
Topics: Dialogue, Interfaith Dialogue, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Main Topic: Other
European Identities, Heritage, and the Iconic Power of Multi-Religious Buildings: Cordoba's Mosque Cathedral and Berlin's House Of One
Author(s): Griera, Mar; Burchardt, Marian; Astor, Avi
Date: 2019
Topics: Dialogue, Interfaith Dialogue, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Main Topic: Other, Synagogues, Jewish - Christian Relations
The Catholic-Jewish and Polish-Jewish Dialogue in New Poland
Author(s): Chrostowski, Waldemar
Date: 1993
Topics: Jewish - Christian Relations, Interfaith Dialogue, Main Topic: Other
Jews and Christians of Russia and Ukraine Speak about Anti-Semitism,
Author(s): Cava, Ralph Della
Date: 1997
Topics: Jewish - Christian Relations, Interfaith Dialogue, Antisemitism, Main Topic: Antisemitism
The State and Prospects of the Catholic-Jewish Dialogue in Poland
Author(s): Chrostowski, Waldemar
Date: 1990
Topics: Christianity, Main Topic: Other, Jewish - Christian Relations, Interfaith Dialogue
Struggling to Establish Jewish-Muslim Dialogue in a Paris Synagogue after the 2015 Attacks
Author(s): Everett, Samuel Sami
Date: 2019
Topics: Antisemitism: Muslim, Dialogue, Interfaith Dialogue, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Main Topic: Other, Synagogues, Terrorism
Abstract: Both engaging in and researching interreligious dialogue initiatives after the 2015 Paris attacks among people who associate strongly with Jewish and Muslim communal structures provides a valuable framework for considering one of the central puzzles in the sociology of religion, namely, social transformations that apply not only to the observed but also to the observer. However, scholarship on interreligious dialogue does not have any well-established research episteme from which to proceed analytically. Academic doxa places interreligious dialogue initiatives in the realm of the “practical” and at times doctrinal, but not the rigorously analytical. These initiatives are often referred to in the English-speaking world as “interfaith,” a word which encompasses a vast array of voluntarist encounters across time and space. The underlying assumption of the academy is that researching dialogue initiatives is a form of “action-research,” a results-oriented mode of scholarship constrained by the necessity to obtain “best practice,” which is of little prestige or value to academics and intellectuals (Bielo 2018: 28). Moreover, since these initiatives have thus far often involved top-down practices, receiving their impetus from the state or dominant religious structures, they have lacked societal legitimacy and therefore have been of little interest to sociology.
Scriptural Reasoning among Jews and Muslims in London: Dynamics of an Inter-Religious Practice
Author(s): van Esdonk, Susanne; Wiegers, Gerard
Date: 2019
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Interfaith Dialogue, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Jewish Texts and Text Study
Abstract: Scriptural Reasoning (SR)—the philosophical inter-religious study of foundational religious texts—came into being as an academic practice in the 1990s. In this article, based on empirical research, we analyse how in London over the past decades this practice has gradually been applied by new groups—including as a means for Jewish-Muslim engagement, the focus of our research. We discuss the ways in which the role of the foundational religious texts in SR practices has changed and how Jewish and Muslim initiators and participants at the local level now navigate between academic theological guidelines, daily interactions, and grassroots’ objectives for inter-religious engagement. We argue that SR practices, after having been adapted to community and individual needs and responding to religious and social caveats from different sides, provide a meaningful approach to constructive and dynamic interaction and engagement between Jews and Muslims at a grassroots level.
The Anglican Church, Jews and British Multiculturalism
Author(s): Brearley, Margaret
Date: 2017
Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Muslim, Islamic Fundamentalism, Jewish - Christian Relations, Interfaith Dialogue, Palestinian Solidarity, Multiculturalism
Pedagogies and Practice: How Religious Diversification Impacts Seminaries and Clergy
Author(s): Tiffany, Austin
Date: 2018
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Rabbis, Interfaith Relations, Interfaith Dialogue, Diversity
Abstract: This thesis considers how religious diversification has shaped the roles of clergy and seminaries. The focus of this qualitative, interview-based study is seminaries and clergy affiliated with various denominations of Judaism and Protestant Christianity in greater London and New York City. Religiously diversifying societies in the US and England have brought forth new challenges for clergy and seminaries, prompting new questions about how or why a faith community should or should not engage with diversity in the public square. This study investigates how seminaries and individual members of the clergy, as sources of religious authority, are responding to religious diversification in different ways – the former sluggish to recognise the impact of religious diversification in curriculum and pedagogical structures and the latter seeing it as a resource for social action initiatives, local networks, and political activism. This has created a gap between training and practice whereby clergy have assumed greater religious authority in religious life. Beyond contributing to the field of sociology of religion, this thesis concludes by allowing the experience of clergy in interreligious engagement to inform appropriate pedagogies that could be employed by seminaries.
Attitudes of Jews in Oxford to other monotheistic religions and interfaith engagement
Author(s): Fidler, Wendy
Date: 2016
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Interfaith Dialogue, Jewish - Christian Relations, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Interviews
Abstract: This study provides an analysis of the attitudes of a minority faith in the UK, the Jews, to interfaith engagement, to the Council of Christians and Jews and other monotheistic religions. It is based on oral testimonies of interviewees who were all members of the Oxford Jewish Congregation, a unique community which has three Jewish groupings of Orthodox, Masorti and Liberal all under one roof. The objectives are to determine the influence of upbringing and life experiences on resultant interfaith attitudes, and link these with the religious denomination of the respondents. Thereafter these attitudes are considered in relation to Israel; to membership of the Council of Christian and Jews; to the attitudes of Jews entering into the sacred space of the ‘Other’ in situations of increasing intensity. Finally this thesis explores attitudes of Jews welcoming non-Jews to attending services in synagogues.

The thesis firstly highlights that the participants’ attitudes towards those of other religions were dependent upon upbringing, background and life experiences, irrespective of whether these resultant attitudes were positive, ambivalent or negative. Secondly, the most significant result found was that all the respondents were involved in dialogue with the Other irrespective of whether they had positive, ambivalent or negative attitudes towards interfaith and despite which Jewish denomination they belonged to. Thirdly, with regard to Israel, each had their own view and opinion which was not dependent on religious affiliation. Fourthly, with regard to the space of the Other, there is more complexity from whether the respondents would enter a church, attend, then participate in an interfaith service held in a church, and finally if they would take part in a service in a church involving a friend or colleague. The responses were divided by the Jewish grouping of the interviewees and demonstrated a new paradigm. There were personal interfaith boundaries beyond which responders would not pass. There was no correlation between background or religious affiliation, revealing an underlying level of unpredictability within the interviewees. Fifthly, this study demonstrated that half of the Orthodox responders were engaged in interfaith activity. Anecdotally, without previous evidence, it has been assumed that Orthodox Jews were less likely to engage in interfaith work. Within this research this was not the case.
Getting away from the noise: Jewish-Muslim interactions and narratives in E1/Barbès
Author(s): Everett, Samuel Sami; Gidley, Ben
Date: 2018
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Interfaith Relations, Interfaith Dialogue, Cities and Suburbs, Immigration
Abstract: This article offers a comparative lens on intercultural and interreligious encounter in urban contexts in France and the UK, focusing on the commonalities and specificities of different national and municipal contexts. It offers an account of three forms of encounter, based on extensive fieldwork in two neighbourhoods of Paris and London: commercial interdependencies embedded in early phases of immigration; voluntaristic ‘interfaith-from-above’ policies shaped by state agendas developed since the beginning of the twenty-first century; and still emerging ‘interculturalism-from-below’ generated by second- and third-generation children of immigrants, which is marked by nostalgia and selective reading of local heritage. In doing so, it bypasses the sharp disciplinary and methodological divides that separate research on Jewish histories and cultures, Muslim communities, immigrant quarters, and postcolonial/minority ethnic contexts. It aims instead to show how intercultural and interfaith encounters often occur in mundane spaces, and operate through and despite forms of ambivalence, and in this respect offer a context in which to displace the terms of spectacular accounts of racial and civilizational conflict.
'A tale of two cultures' : a dialogical study of the cultures of a Jewish and a Catholic secondary school
Author(s): Scholefield, Lynne
Date: 1999
Topics: Main Topic: Education, Jewish Schools, Jewish - Christian Relations, Dialogue, Comparisons with other communities, Ethnography, Interfaith Dialogue
Abstract: Interpreting culture as symbols, stories, rituals and values, the thesis explores the culture of a Jewish and a Catholic secondary school in a dialogical way. The survey of the literature in Chapter 1 identifies relevant school-based research and locates the chosen case-study schools within the context of the British 'dual system'. Chapter 2 draws on the theoretical and methodological literatures of inter-faith dialogue and ethnography to develop and defend a paradigm for the research defined as open-inclusivist and constructivist. The main body of the thesis (Chapters 3-5), based on field-work undertaken in 1996 and 1997, presents the two schools in parallel with each other. Chapter 3 describes the details of the case studies at 'St. Margaret's' and 'Mount Sinai' and my developing research relationship with each school. In Chapter 4 many different voices from each school are woven into two 'tales' about the schools' cultures. This central chapter has a deliberately narrative style. Chapter 5 amplifies the cultural tales through the analysis of broadly quantitative data gained from an extensive questionnaire administered to a sample of senior students in each school. It is the only place in the thesis where views and values from the two schools are directly compared. The final two chapters widen the horizon of the study. Chapter 6 presents voices which were not part of the original case studies but which relate, in different ways, to the culture of the two schools. Chapter 7, with theoretical ideas about Jewish schools and education, and Catholic schools and education, provides resources for further dialogue about culture within Judaism and Catholicism and for Jewish-Christian dialogue. The thesis ends with some reflections on possible implications of the two cultures for discussions about the common good in education.
Cooperation in Turbulent Times: Strategies of Jews and Muslims in Amsterdam
Author(s): Roggeveen, Suzanna; Vellenga, Sipco J.; Wiegers, Gerard A.
Date: 2017
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Antisemitism: Muslim, Interfaith Dialogue, Islamophobia
Abstract: Relations between Jews and Muslims in Amsterdam grew tense after the conflicts between Gaza and Israel in 2014, the violent attacks on Jewish targets in Brussels (2014), Paris (2015) and Copenhagen (2015) and local incidents of online, verbal and sometimes physical discrimination. Nevertheless, these factors also inspired Jews and Muslims to launch cooperation projects and strengthen the bonds already existing between them. Cooperation in turbulent times is not always easy. The data collected for this research show how Jews and Muslims in cooperation projects use to strategies to solve some of the problems confronting them. The three most widely used strategies that were found are ‘searching for similarities’, ‘decategorizing’ and ‘avoidance’. These strategies do not emerge in a vacuum, however, but at a certain moment in time, in specific fields. Therefore, this article, will describe the usage of the three strategies and explain the interaction between strategies and their contexts.
Jewish Studies in Germany
Author(s): Benkert, Volker
Date: 2013
Topics: Jewish Revival, Jewish Studies, Universities / Higher Education, Jewish Education, Main Topic: Education, Holocaust Education, Interfaith Dialogue, Post-1989
Abstract: Jewish Studies in Germany reflects the tremendous demographic transformations of
the Jewish community since 1990. Yet, this article also posits that non-Jewish Germans too have
changed substantially due to immigration and new generational views on the legacy of the Holocaust.
As such, Jewish Studies has to communicate the history of the German Jewry to Jews and
Gentiles mostly unfamiliar with its rich legacy. It needs to comment on Holocaust memorialization
to educate new generations of Gentiles as well as Jewish immigrants, for whom the end of
the Cold War bears more significance than the Holocaust. Finally, it needs to be part of new conversations
between Christians and Jews that also includes the large Muslim minority in Germany.
While the changing audiences in Germany dictate a focus on Jews in Germany, Jewish Studies
also needs to embrace a more European perspective reflective of the more comparative and transdisciplinary
scholarship abroad. Despite the significant growth of Jewish Studies in Germany over
the last two decades, these challenges call for even greater efforts.
Identity and inter religious understanding in Jewish schools in England
Author(s): Ipgrave, Julia
Date: 2014
Topics: Main Topic: Education, Jewish Schools, Religious Education, Interfaith Dialogue, Multiculturalism
Abstract: This article sets up a dialogue between auto-referential (looking to self) and allo-referential (looking to the other) approaches to religious difference and applies these to education for inter religious understanding in Jewish schools. It begins by arguing that the multiculturalism of the 1980s and 1990s set up a duality of self and other, with the responsibility for looking to ‘the other’ (allo-reference) resting largely on the majority community and the licence to look to self (auto-reference) being given to minority communities. Within the Jewish community, multiculturalism supported and legitimated the development of an inward-looking Jewish identity-based education. This was challenged in the 2000s however by the new outward-looking emphases of the community cohesion agenda, and so Jewish schools have had to negotiate a place for themselves between auto- and allo-reference. Brief case studies illustrate contrasting ways in which two schools have positioned themselves in relation to these two poles. In School A, the imperative towards ‘the other’ attempts an openness to ‘the other’ in ‘the other’s’ own terms, whereas in School B the same imperative towards ‘the other’ is framed within the auto-referential framework of being and doing Jewish.
L’identité juive et la compréhension interreligieuse dans les écoles juives en Angleterre
Translated Title: Jewish identity and inter religious understanding in Jewish schools in England
Author(s): Ipgrave, Julia
Editor(s): Hirsch, Sivane; McAndrew, Marie; Audet, Geneviève; Ipgrave, Julia
Date: 2016
Topics: Main Topic: Education, Jewish Schools, Religious Education, Interfaith Dialogue, Multiculturalism
Jewish-Muslim Relations in Sweden
Author(s): Tossavainen, Mikael
Date: 2009
Topics: Community Relations, Islam, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Security, Tolerance, Interfaith Dialogue, Antisemitism: Muslim, Main Topic: Other, Interfaith Relations
Abstract:

The author discusses the Jewish and Muslim populations of Sweden, outlines venues and efforts for interfaith dialogue between the two groups, identifies issues of mutual interest (including promoting tolerance for ritual slaughter and circumcision), identifies issues of conflict, and notes instances of attacks on Jews.
Muslims and Jews in Switzerland
Author(s): Erlanger, Simon
Date: 2008
Topics: Antisemitism: Muslim, Interfaith Dialogue, Interfaith Relations, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Main Topic: Other
Abstract: The Muslim population in Switzerland has increased rapidly from 16,353 in 1970 to an estimated 400,000 persons today, while the general population grew from around six million to 7.6 million. The Jewish community today is some 18,000 strong, a number that has not changed since the 1950s. Whereas the Jewish community, given its small size and its age profile, is likely to shrink and lose influence, the Muslim community can be expected to become more influential. Already up to eight percent of the population in the large cities is Muslim. Muslims in Switzerland are younger and less well educated than the average, whereas the Jewish community is older than average and the best-educated group in the country.
The Muslim community in Switzerland is marked by extreme religious and ethnic diversity and hence, also, by a variety of attitudes toward Jews and Israel. There has so far been no openly anti-Jewish mass movement among Muslims with multiple hate crimes committed such as in France. Kurds, Turks, and Bosnians tend to be more secular and friendlier toward Jews than Arabs from North Africa and the Middle East.
There has been some cooperation between the Jewish and Muslim communities with the former even providing support to the latter. Certain Muslim groups want to learn from the established Jewish community how to gain legal, political, and social acceptance in Switzerland.
Muslims have not been the driving force behind the Swiss version of the new Europe-wide anti-Semitism. However, there is a growing radicalization of disaffected Muslim youth, with Islamism gaining ground among certain groups.
Muslim-Jewish Interactions in Great Britain
Author(s): Whine, Michael
Date: 2008
Topics: Jewish - Muslim Relations, Antisemitism: Muslim, Interfaith Dialogue, Interfaith Relations, Main Topic: Other
Abstract: There are an estimated two million Muslims in the United Kingdom. The largest communities come from the Indian subcontinent, in the following order: Pakistan, Bangladesh, India. The Jewish community numbers approximately three hundred thousand.
Despite outward appearances there is a broad range of Jewish-Muslim dialogue groups and other kinds of interaction. This includes cultural associations, religious dialogues-in which sometimes Christians are also involved-as well as interaction on the local level between synagogues and mosques.
On the other side of the spectrum there are many violent attacks by Muslims on Jews. Among identified perpetrators of violent incidents, Muslims number much higher than their share of the population. The main sources of Muslim antisemitic hate propaganda are in certain Islamic groups, madrassas, and mosques. Some campuses have become hostile environments for Jews openly identifying with Israel.
On some religious issues such as circumcision Muslims and Jews have common interests. On others, such as the introduction of religious law, their positions greatly diverge.
Christian-Jewish Relations in the Netherlands
Author(s): Marx, Tzvi
Date: 2007
Topics: Jewish - Christian Relations, Interfaith Dialogue, Christianity, Antisemitism, International Relations, Main Topic: Other
Abstract: The establishment of the state of Israel-and not the Jewish suffering during the Shoah-has catalyzed in the Netherlands a serious rethinking of the relationship of Christianity to Judaism. The theology that Christians had replaced Jews as the “new” Israel was belied by the reempowered Jewish polity in the Land.
Christian-Jewish relations have several components. One aspect is that a number of Christians study Judaism. A second is interfaith dialogue, and a third concerns Christian attitudes toward Israel. These are to some extent intertwined.
The current Israeli-Palestinian struggle provides a cover for rehabilitating ancient anti-Jewish feelings. The deeper, historically conditioned anti-Jewish tendencies are not easily disposed of. The culture of paranoiac anti-Judaism is still alive.
The International Handbook of Jewish Education (2011): developing a dialogue between Jewish and Catholic educators
Author(s): Miller, Helena
Date: 2013
Topics: Jewish Education, Jewish - Christian Relations, Interfaith Dialogue, Main Topic: Education
Abstract: This article is an attempt to highlight some main themes in the International Handbook of Jewish Education, which may resonate with themes that are pre-occupying Catholic educators, and which may help Catholic educators understand some of the pressing issues and concerns of Jewish educators and Jewish education. Its intention is to begin a process of dialogue between Jewish and Catholic educators internationally.
Діалоги порозуміння. Українсько-єврейські взаємини
Translated Title: Dialogues of Mutual Understanding. Ukrainian-Jewish Relations
Editor(s): Хруслінська, Ізабелла; Тима, Петро
Date: 2011
Topics: Jewish - Non - Jewish Relations, Interfaith Dialogue, Dialogue, Interviews, Interfaith Relations, Main Topic: Other
Abstract: Читателю предлагается сборник интервью, записанных на протяжении последних лет, для того, чтобы показать участников исторических событий нашего времени. Среди них ученые, публицисты, диссиденты и общественные деятели. Они представляют свое видение украинско-еврейских отношений, формулируют актуальные вопросы сегодняшнего дня. Авторы не обходят «горячие точки» отношений, наиболее острые для украинцев и евреев.

Упомянутые в книге факты, а также опыт поиска взаимопонимания украинских и еврейских лидеров в последние десятилетия, по мнению авторов, достойны всеобщего обозрения.

Читачеві пропонується збірник інтерв’ю, які записані впродовж кількох останніх років, аби показати учасників історичних подій нашого часу. Cеред них науковці, публіцисти, дисиденти і громадські діячі. Вони представляють своє бачення українсько-єврейських відносин, формулюють актуальні питання сьогодення. Автори не обминають «гарячі точки» взаємин, найбільш болючі для українців та євреїв. Зазначені у книзі факти, а також досвід знаходження порозуміння українських та єврейських лідерів в останні десятиліття, на думку авторів, варті всебічного висвітлення.25 жовтня 2011 року в Києво-Могилянській академії відбулася презентація книги. Свої думки про важливість видання висловили Є. Сверстюк, М. Маринович, Я. Грицак, Й. Зісельс, К.Сігов, Ж. Ковба. Модератором зустрічі виступив директор Центру юдаїки і керівник проекту Леонід Фінберг.3 листопада 2011 р. Ізабелла Хруслінська, Петро Тима та Леонід Фінберг стали гостями програми “Вечір з М. Княжицьким” на телеканалі ТВі. Творці книги розповіли, чому вони зацікавилася українсько-єврейською темою, в чому особливість цієї збірки, зокрема, та міжкультурних взаємин загалом.
In Begegnung lernen: Der jüdisch-christliche Dialog in der Erziehung
Author(s): Weibel, Walter
Date: 2013
Topics: Education, Interfaith Dialogue, Jewish - Christian Relations, Main Topic: Other
Abstract: Religionen spielen in unserer Gesellschaft eine Schlüsselrolle. Umso wichtiger sind respektvolles und gegenseitiges Verständnis und Dialogbereitschaft. Ein Grundstein dafür kann und muss in der Schule gelegt werden. Dieser Band vermittelt am Beispiel Judentum-Christentum wesentliche Einsichten zum Fach "Ethik und Religionen". Er wendet sich mit der Formulierung kompetenzorientierter Lernziele aber auch mit konkreten, praxisorientierten Vorschlägen sowohl an unterrichtende Lehrpersonen, Religionspädagoginnen und -pädagogen als auch an Bildungsverantwortliche, welche Lehrpläne und deren Umsetzung im Unterricht verantworten.
So fremd und doch so nah: Juden und Muslime in Deutschland
Translated Title: So strange and yet so close: Jews and Muslims in Germany
Author(s): Kaddor, Lamya; Rubinstein, Michael
Date: 2013
Topics: Jewish - Muslim Relations, Interfaith Dialogue, Main Topic: Other
Abstract: Juden und Muslime leben schon lange unter uns, die einen seit Jahrhunderten, die anderen in der zweiten oder dritten Generation. Sie sind uns nah und trotzdem auch fremd geblieben. Lamya Kaddor und Michael Rubinstein leben und arbeiten in ihrem Geburtsland Deutschland und sind zu Hause in einer Glaubensgemeinschaft, die sie zu »Anderen« werden lässt. Weit besser als Statistiken und Zahlen wissen sie, wie es um Integration in Deutschland steht.

Wo liegen die Herausforderungen unserer Gesellschaft, in der Christen, Juden und Muslime wirklich gemeinsam leben? Was können die Kirchen im Umgang mit anderen religiösen Glaubensgemeinschaften besser machen? Und welche Verantwortung kommt dabei den Juden und Muslimen auch selbst zu?
Juden und Muslime in Deutschland: Minderheitendialog als Zukunftsaufgabe
Translated Title: Jews and Muslims in Germany: minority dialogue as a future task
Editor(s): Hafez, Kai; Steinbach, Udo
Date: 1999
Topics: Jewish - Muslim Relations, Interfaith Dialogue, Main Topic: Other
Mapping Reports of Jewish Muslim Dialogue in 5 European Countries
Date: 2010
Topics: Dialogue, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Interfaith Dialogue, Main Topic: Other
Abstract: In the context of both the incredible diversity of the societies in which we now
live and the volatile political situation of the last few years, there have been
renewed levels of tensions between religious communities and in particular
between Jews and Muslims. At the same time Jews and Muslims find themselves
not only as perceived enemies but also as possible partners because of
the threat of radical political views gaining strength in the broader community.
In 2005, CEJI – a Jewish contribution to an inclusive Europe - began an initiative
to foster and promote dialogue and understanding between our two communities,
seeing it not only essential for our own well-being but also to strengthen
the vision of a diverse world to which we aspire.

Much work has been going at the local level on the ground but ideas and practices
are rarely shared. The people involved at a local level often feel isolated,
and lacking in support, at times feeling that they are operating in a vacuum, as
they try to generate dialogue between the two communities. The production of
these Mapping Reports for the 5 partner countries involved in the project
(Belgium, Denmark, France, the Netherlands and United Kingdom) intends to
begin to address these issues by publicising and promoting existing dialogue initiatives.
The Mapping Reports led to the First European Jewish Muslim Dialogue
Conference, which was held in April 2007. This event aimed to facilitate the
exchange of information and to gather positive experiences from the five partner
countries. Out of the conference came the recognition that dialogue is not
enough and that cooperation is also needed, and as a result the European
Platform for Jewish Muslim Cooperation was set up. The Platform is made up
of Jewish and Muslim organisations involved in local and national level dialogue
initiatives, and who are committed to developing cooperative actions between
their communities. 
Communities in Conversation: Jewish Involvement in Inter Faith Activities in the UK
Author(s): Kahn-Harris, Keith
Date: 2009
Topics: Dialogue, Interfaith Dialogue, Interfaith Relations, Main Topic: Other
Abstract: In Britain today, people of different faiths and beliefs live side by side. The Government has supported inter faith work for a number of years with the objective of increasing the understanding between different groups, building communities and breaking down barriers. This report aims to reveal the extent of the UK Jewish community's involvement in inter faith activities, to explore the limitations of this involvement, and to suggest how it might be improved.