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Group Identities and the Construction of the 1943 Rescue of the Danish Jews
Author(s): Buckser, Andrew
Date: 1998
Topics: Attitudes to Jews, Main Topic: Identity and Community, Jewish Identity, National Identity, Memory
Abstract: The rescue of the Danish Jews from the Nazi roundups of 1943 has become the defining image of Judaism in Denmark, both within the country and to the world outside. This article examines the way in which this story about the past has been constructed, focusing particularly on its portrayals of the types of groups involved and on the motivations of the rescuers. It argues that the dominance and durability of this story in defining Jewish identity in Denmark stems from the type of relationships it posits between Danish Christians, Danish Jews, and worldwide Jewry. Anthropological studies of tradition could be enriched by a greater focus on such collaborative constructions of the past.
Keeping Kosher: Eating and Social Identity among the Jews of Denmark
Author(s): Buckser, Andrew
Date: 1999
Topics: Food, Anthropology, Jewish Identity, Ethnicity, Main Topic: Identity and Community
Abstract: Anthropologists have frequently noted the importance of foodways in demarcating ethnic and other group identities. The destabilization of such identities in late modernity implies deep changes in the meaning of ethnic cuisines. This essay explores the impact of such changes on the meaning of kosher practice among Jews in Copenhagen. A close engagement with Danish culture has made Jewishness increasingly difficult to define since the Second World War; Jewish ethnicity has become a contingent aspect of self-identity rather than a feature of a cohesive social group. Dietary practice provides a common symbolic system through which the increasingly heterogeneous notions of Jewish identity in Denmark can be expressed and interrelated.
Chabad in Copenhagen: Fundamentalism and Modernity in Jewish Denmark
Author(s): Buckser, Andrew
Date: 2005
Topics: Hassidim, Haredi / Strictly Orthodox Jews, Chabad-Lubavitch, Main Topic: Other