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Re-Making Kinship. From Community to Family: A Sephardic Experience in France
Author(s): Roda, Jessica
Date: 2016
Topics: Age and Generational Issues, Family and Household, Sephardi Jews, Ladino and Haketia, Jewish Revival, Main Topic: Other, Anthropology
Abstract: The Sephardic Jews living in France, who use Judeo-Spanish as their heritage language, are an assimilated diasporic group that has witnessed war, assimilation and marginalization. With the increase in genealogical research in Western Society, many Sephardim have experienced a process of revitalization of memory through kin relations with people of similar descent. This complex revitalization takes form within the structure of a community cultural centre which acts as a place for re-making kinship thanks to the emotional experience of sharing a specific musical heritage. This phenomenon forces us to examine the tension between « traditional » kinship systems — embodied in the matrilineal bloodline in the case of halakhic Jewish identity — and symbolic kinship anchored in the idea of a « chosen family », to rethink kinship as a mixture between biology and culture, as well as to reconsider current anthropological debates on religion thought beyond the strict religious practices.
Ce que devenir juif veut dire
Translated Title: What becoming a Jew means
Author(s): Tank-Storper, Sébastien
Date: 2013
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Conversion, Orthodox Judaism, Religious Observance and Practice, Jewish Identity
Abstract: En affirmant que devenir juif, c’est devenir un juif pratiquant et non un juif « ethnique » ou « national », et en tentant de s’arroger le monopole sur les conversions au judaïsme, notamment en Israël, les institutions religieuses de sensibilité orthodoxe défendent l’idée qu’elles se font de ce qu’être juif veut dire : un collectif soumis à la loi. Elles entendent ainsi lutter contre ce qu’elles considèrent être une réification de l’identité juive dans une entité nationale israélienne ou contre sa réduction à un groupe ethnique ou à une identité dont l’héritage ne constituerait plus un principe structurant mais se réduirait à quelques traits discriminants.
Re-Making Kinship: From Community to Family A Sephardic Experience in France
Author(s): Roda, Jessica
Date: 2016
Topics: Main Topic: Identity and Community, Sephardi Jews, Jewish Community, Jewish Heritage, Jewish Music
Abstract: The Sephardic Jews living in France, who use Judeo-Spanish as their heritage language, are an assimilated diasporic group that has witnessed war, assimilation and marginalization. With the increase in genealogical research in Western Society, many Sephardim have experienced a process of revitalization of memory through kin relations with people of similar descent. This complex revitalization takes form within the structure of a community cultural centre which acts as a place for re-making kinship thanks to the emotional experience of sharing a specific musical heritage. This phenomenon forces us to examine the tension between « traditional » kinship systems — embodied in the matrilineal bloodline in the case of halakhic Jewish identity — and symbolic kinship anchored in the idea of a « chosen family », to rethink kinship as a mixture between biology and culture, as well as to reconsider current anthropological debates on religion thought beyond the strict religious practices.