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Tottenham Hotspur, Fan Identity and Figurational Sociology: 'Yid Army'

Author(s): Lunn, Bonita

Editor(s): Roberts, Will; Whigham, Stuart; Culvin, Alex; Daniel Parnell

Date: 2023

Topics: Sociology, Sports, Football, Antisemitism, Jewish Identity, Main Topic: Other

Десакрализация коллективной па-мяти о Холокосте: кейс Государственного музея Ауш-виц-Биркенау

Translated Title: Desacralization of collective memory of the Holocaust: case of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum.

Author(s): Сульжицкий, И. С.

Date: 2018

Topics: Holocaust Memorials, Holocaust Education, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Museums, Memory, Sociology

Abstract: Изучаются процессы десакрализации и фрагментации коллективной памяти о Холокосте в коллективных пред-ставлениях посетителей Государственного музея Аушвиц-Биркенау. Исследование этих процессов опирается на те-оретическую модель, разработанную в современной культурсоциологии, которая является наиболее сенситивнойпри обращении к вопросам, связанным с сакрализацией и осквернением мест памяти. Рассмотрены возможностиэкспликации основных положений культурсоциологии в теоретическую рамку Memory Studies, а также концептуа-лизации таких понятий, как оппозиция сакральное чистое / сакральное нечистое, коллективная память, культурнаятравма. Далее в ходе исследования раскрываются основные стратегии классификации Государственного музея Ауш-виц-Биркенау как сакрального и профанного места памяти, детализируется тенденция, связанная с десакрализаци-ей этого места и описания его в категориях профанного

Zsidó indentitáskutatások a holokauszt után született generáció körében

Translated Title: Jewish identity research among the post-Holocaust generation

Author(s): Lénárt, András

Date: 2016

Topics: Sociology, Universities / Higher Education, Main Topic: Other, Bibliography and Literature Reviews

Abstract: The Voice of the 20th Century Archive and Research Workshop (www.20szazadhangja.hu), established in the spring of 2009 at the Sociological Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, aims to enrich the heritage of Hungarian social research, including research with qualitative methods. Our workshop collects, digitizes and makes publicly available interviews, documents, etc. offered by researchers. copies. The aim of the research workshop is to take stock of the “sounding” heritage of Hungarian sociology, to explore and document the history of Hungarian sociological workshops using qualitative methods, and to initiate new historical sociological research on the basis of the collected interviews. In our series, we present a collection that has already been processed and is available online with the undisguised goal of

Social research on European Jewish populations - The state of the field

Author(s): Kahn-Harris, Keith

Date: 2020

Topics: Main Topic: Other, Policy, Sociology, Strategic Planning, Jewish Studies, Universities / Higher Education

Abstract: Since 2014, JPR's European Jewish Research Archive (EJRA) has consolidated social research on post-1990 European Jewish populations within one single, freely available, online resource. EJRA is designed to be a service to community leaders, policymakers and researchers, as well as a resource to help inform the European Jewish research agenda going forward.

Drawing on an innovative methodology, this report presents a detailed statistical analysis of EJRA's holdings. Through this analysis, we are able to pinpoint specific strengths and weaknesses in social research coverage of particular issues in particular countries.

The report finds a clear increase in the research coverage of European Jewish populations since 1990. The amount of coverage in each country is broadly in line with the size of each country’s Jewish population. The majority of the research is produced by researchers whose work is not confined to this field, with a small ‘core' of committed Jewishly-focused researchers. Academia provides the primary base for researchers, but there has been a significant increase in recent years in research reports produced by non-academic institutions, particularly those concerned with monitoring antisemitism.

Approximately 20% of EJRA items concern antisemitism and this proportion has more than trebled since 1990. Research on ‘living’ Jewish communities - as opposed to research on antisemitism and Holocaust remembrance - is far less developed in countries with small Jewish populations. At 8% of the collection, Jewish education appears to be underdeveloped in all European countries with the exception of the UK.

Drawing on the research findings, the report goes on to raise questions regarding possible strategic priorities for European Jewish research for discussion by researchers and organisations that sponsor research. In particular, we ask how and whether research across Europe could be better coordinated and what countries and topics require further support to develop a stronger research infrastructure.

Sociologický výskum antisemitizmu na Slovensku po roku 1989 v kritickej perspektíve

Translated Title: Sociological Research of Antisemitism in Slovakia after 1989 in a Critical Perspective

Author(s): Vašečka, Michal

Date: 2006

Topics: Antisemitism, Surveys, Sociology, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Attitude Surveys

Abstract: Article critically analyses approaches that Slovak sociologists have been using in their analysis of antisemitism in Slovakia after 1989. The article describes quantitative methods used by Slovak sociologists and suggests need of a complex approach to research of antisemitism. Author argues that modern antisemitism is de-judaized, while Slovak researchers focus more on a research of prejudices and stereotypes toward Jews. The research of antisemitism in Slovakia is fully dominated by a Bogarduss scale of social distance while different relevant research methods are not used by Slovak experts. Moreover, in the process of interpretations of public opinion surveys experts do not take into account the so-called escaping answers of respondents and attempts to run away from answering sensitive questions. Socio-psychological research, reflecting authoritarian personality, anomy, alienation and ontological insecurity of common people as sources of anti-Semitism, is rather rare in Slovakia. Consequently, quantitative research of antisemitism in Slovakia can be evaluated as insufficient. De-judaized perspective of anti-Semitism and even of Jews themselves in a Sartre´s sense is remaining one of the greatest challenges for sociologists researching antisemitism in Slovakia.

Research on the Jewish Community in Polish Social Sciences: Achievements, Perspectives and Scientific Challenges over the Last Two Decades

Translated Title: Badania nad społecznością żydowska w polskich naukach społecznych: osiągnięcia, perspektywy i naukowe wyzwania

Author(s): Cukras-Stelągowska, Joanna

Date: 2018

Topics: Jewish Community, Jewish Identity, Main Topic: Identity and Community, Universities / Higher Education, Jewish Studies, Jewish Education, Jewish Organisations, Psychology, Sociology

Abstract: In my paper, I would like to focus on the achievements of researchers studyingthe Jewish community and culture in Poland. In recent decades, there havebeen numerous publications in this area. It must be admitted that most ofthem are historical works. However, I would like to draw attention to slightlydispersed studies in the field of social sciences (sociology, psychology, peda-gogy). Who are the researchers who deal with Jewish themes? What are thecommon and individual elements of their scientific approaches? Are all ofthese elements part of the discourse of research on the ‘renaissance of theJewish community and identity’? I would like to look at the explorations ofboth researchers connected with the Jewish environment and ‘outsiders’ (in-cluding young foreign researchers interested in Polish Jews). The scope oftheir research is therefore quite diverse and includes issues such as: buildingJewish identity and institutional structures; religious life and the activities ofreligious and secular associations; relations with dominant culture; informaleducation, Jewish education and family upbringing.

Socio-Anthropologie des Judaïsmes Contemporains

Editor(s): Bordes-Benayoun, Chantal

Date: 2015

Topics: Sociology, Anthropology, Main Topic: Identity and Community

Abstract: Sils se définissent et sont perçus comme une seule et même communauté, les juifs sont en fait de plus en plus divers dans leurs interprétations de cette appartenance commune. Les frontières de la judéité semblent plus floues aujourdhui dans la mesure où elle enregistre, comme d'autres appartenances, les effets des migrations et métissages culturels contemporains. Si l'histoire tient un rôle majeur pour la compréhension pluriséculaire de la judéité, il appartient à la sociologie et à l'anthropologie sociale de saisir les bouleversements en cours. Cest à cette tâche, entre bilan et perspective, entre élaborations théoriques et enquêtes de terrain, que cet ouvrage rassemblant des spécialistes de ces deux disciplines semploie.

Ethnic Identity and Religion: Tradition and Change in Liverpool Jewry

Author(s): Kokosalakis, N.

Date: 1982

Topics: Sociology, Jewish Community, Jewish Identity, Main Topic: Education

Abstract: Explores the interaction between Jewish ethnic identity and Judaism as a religion in the context of modern society, utilizing a case study of the Liverpool (England) Jewish community. Detailed historical material and data drawn from indepth interviewing and participant observation are utilized in this study. The author focuses on the capacity of Jewish culture to adopt and to co-exist with a variety of cultures without losing its distinctiveness. He also assesses modernity as having a particular bearing on Jewish tradition because of the inseparable historical and ideological connections between Judaism and Jewish ethnic identity. With its emphasis on the juxtaposition and transformation of Jewish ethnic identity and religion, this book is valuable for both students and sociologists of religion and the general reading audience.

Hostility to Israel and Antisemitism: Toward a Sociological Approach

Author(s): Hirsh, David

Date: 2013

Topics: Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Discourse, Sociology, Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism: Left-Wing, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Israel Criticism

Abstract: Sociology is not immune from the ambivalence toward antisemitism that has haunted anti-hegemonic intellectual and political traditions. Yet in this paper, I argue that the resources of sociology can be mobilized to examine the ways in which antisemitism is sometimes manifested in discourses and movements against Israel and Zionism, even those which think of themselves as antiracist.

Judendom i Sverige. En sociologisk belysning

Translated Title: Judaism in Sweden – A sociological elucidation

Author(s): Dencik, Lars

Date: 2006

Topics: Jewish Community, Sociology, Main Topic: Identity and Community

Turbulent Times: The British Jewish Community Today

Author(s): Kahn-Harris, Keith; Gidley, Ben

Date: 2010

Topics: Sociology, Jewish Community, Jewish Organisations, Jewish Renewal, Jewish Continuity, Security, Antisemitism, Antisemitism: New Antisemitism, Jewish Identity, Main Topic: Identity and Community

Abstract: This book contains a discussion of transformations within British Jewry in recent times. The book examines the changing nature of the British Jewish community and its leadership since 1990. The authors contend that there has been a shift within Jewish communal discourse from a strategy of security, which emphasized Anglo-Jewry's secure British belonging and citizenship, to a strategy of insecurity, which emphasizes the dangers and threats Jews face individually and communally.

The Growth of Religious Diversity: Jewish, Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist and Muslim Settlements

Author(s): Bluck, Robert; Gillat-Ray, Sophie; Graham, David; Singh, Gurharpal; Zavos, John

Editor(s): Catto, Rebecca; Woodhead, Linda

Date: 2012

Topics: Religion, Demography, Sociology, Main Topic: Other

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