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Memorialization of the Holocaust in Minsk and Kiev
Author(s): Khiterer, Victoria
Editor(s): Khiterer, Victoria; Gruber, Abigail S
Date: 2017
Topics: Antisemitism, Holocaust Memorials, Holocaust Commemoration, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial
Abstract: The article analyzes the memorialization of the Holocaust in Minsk and Kiev. In spite of the general policy of the Soviet government toward the Jewish population, the level of state and popular anti-Semitism varied indifferent Soviet republics, which affected the memorialization of the Holocaust. In the capital of Belorussia, Minsk, a monument to the victims of the Holocaust was erected in 1946. Ukrainian Soviet authorities did not allow any monument to be built in Babi Yar (Kiev) until 1976. The strong state and popular anti-Semitism in Ukraine was the main reason for the delay in the memorialization of the Holocaust in Kiev for many years.
Sense or Absence of Nationalism: Searching for a Swiss-Jewish Musical Identity
Author(s): Ross, Sarah
Editor(s): Hemetek, Ursula; Marks, Essica; Reyes, Adelaida
Date: 2014
Topics: Main Topic: Culture and Heritage, Jewish Music, Jewish Culture, Jewish Heritage, Yiddish
Constructing Patrimony, Updating the Modern: Toward a Comprehensive Understanding of Sephardic Musical Experiences in France
Author(s): Roda, Jessica
Editor(s): Hemetek, Ursula; Marks, Essica; Reyes, Adelaida
Date: 2014
Topics: Main Topic: Culture and Heritage, Sephardi Jews, Jewish Music, Jewish Culture, Jewish Heritage
Being a Jew of Muslim Descent, a Problematic Identity
Author(s): Allouche-Benayoun, Joëlle
Editor(s): Gross, Martine; Nizard, Sophie; Scioldo-Zurcher, Yann
Date: 2017
Topics: Jewish Identity, Conversion, Main Topic: Identity and Community, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Interviews
Abstract: Joëlle Allouche-Benayoun investigates the “problematic identity” of Muslims having converted to Judaism in France. In her article, the cases of conversion are based on two sorts of sources: testimony in the digital Jewish press (the internet), studying conversion files, and interviews carried out with Muslim men and women who converted or are in the process of converting to Judaism.

In the presently taut context of Judeo-Muslim relations, converted men and women stand by their choice in the name of what they call their “ideological proximity” to Judaism – or to Jews – but they also express their rejection of, or their intention to keep away from, “Islamic excesses”.
Applying for Adoption: How are Jewish Families Perceived?
Author(s): Nizard, Sophie
Editor(s): Gross, Martine; Nizard, Sophie; Scioldo-Zurcher, Yann
Date: 2017
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Adoption, Family and Household, Parenthood, Jewish Identity, Conversion
Abstract: Sophie Nizard takes up the question of the multiplication of family models by examining the case of children adopted by Jewish families in France. She analyses how Jewish families wishing to adopt are perceived by social workers or the physicians employed by the French institutions or agencies in charge of adoption. As soon as it is known that the project to become parents goes along with the will to transmit a Jewish identity to children “from abroad” these perceptions are frequently negative, which can jeopardize the entire adoption process for these famili
The History of Beit Haverim
Author(s): Gross, Martine
Editor(s): Gross, Martine; Nizard, Sophie; Scioldo-Zurcher, Yann
Date: 2017
Topics: Main Topic: Identity and Community, LGBT, Jewish Community, Jewish Organisations, Jewish Communal Politics
Abstract: n her article, Martine Gross studies the multiplication of family models from the point of view of homosexual French Jews. Taking off from the history of a gay and lesbian group, Beit Haverim, she shows how Jewish institutions in France have moved from “grossly ignoring” simply the possibility of a double identity – Jewish
and homosexual – to gradually accepting Beit Haverim as an interlocutor. But she also tells the story of the growing awareness among rabbis and the organized community that a compound reality actually exists
The constructed Jew. A pragmatic approach for defining a collective Central European image of Jews
Author(s): Gantner, Eszter B.; Kovács, Mátyás
Editor(s): Šiaučiunaitė-Verbickiene, Jurgita; Lempertienė, Larisa
Date: 2007
Topics: Main Topic: Culture and Heritage, Jewish Culture, Jewish Heritage, Jewish Museums, Klezmer, Jewish Music, Jewish Revival, Post-1989
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
“The German Desire to be Jewish”: Conversions of Non-Jewish Germans to Judaism after 1945
Author(s): Steiner , Barbara
Editor(s): Fisher, Netanel; Parfitt, Tudor
Date: 2016
Topics: Conversion, Jewish Revival, Main Topic: Identity and Community
Joining the Jewish Fold: The Changing Conversion Policies in Austria and Germany since 1945
Author(s): Cohen-Weisz, Susanne
Editor(s): Fisher, Netanel; Parfitt, Tudor
Date: 2016
Topics: Conversion, Jewish Revival, Main Topic: Identity and Community
Jewish heritage production and historical Jewish spaces: a case study of Cracow and Berlin
Author(s): Waligórska, Magdalena
Editor(s): Šiaučiunaitė-Verbickiene, Jurgita; Lempertienė, Larisa
Date: 2007
Topics: Jewish Heritage, Jewish Space, Main Topic: Culture and Heritage
New Jews in Europe
Author(s): Ben-Rafael, Eliezer
Editor(s): Fisher, Netanel; Parfitt, Tudor
Date: 2016
Topics: Conversion, Jewish Revival, Main Topic: Identity and Community
From Apulia to Sicily: Places and Charismatic Leaders as Agents of Memory among Converts in Italy
Author(s): Trevisan Semi, Emanuela
Editor(s): Fisher, Netanel; Parfitt, Tudor
Date: 2016
Topics: Memory, Conversion, Jewish Revival, Jewish Leadership, Main Topic: Culture and Heritage, Jewish Space