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Challenge and Conformity: The Religious Lives of Orthodox Jewish Women
Author(s): Taylor-Guthartz, Lindsey
Date: 2021
Topics: Main Topic: Identity and Community, Jewish Women, Interviews, Prayer, Religious Observance and Practice, Ritual, Orthodox Judaism
Abstract: Orthodox Jewish women are increasingly seeking new ways to express themselves religiously, and important changes have occurred in consequence in their self-definition and the part they play in the religious life of their communities. Drawing on surveys and interviews across different Orthodox groups in London, as well as on the author’s own experience of active participation over many years, this is a thoroughly researched study that analyses its findings in the context of related developments in Israel and the USA. Sympathetic attention is given to women’s creativity and sophistication as they struggle to develop new modes of expression that will let their voices be heard; at the same time, the inevitable points of conflict with the male-dominated religious establishment are examined and explained. There is a focus, too, on the impact of innovations in ritual: these include not only the creation of women-only spaces and women’s participation in public practices traditionally reserved for men, but also new personal practices often acquired on study visits to Israel which are replacing traditions learned from family members. This is a much-needed study of how new norms of lived religion have emerged in London, influenced by both the rise of feminism and the backlash against it, and also by women’s new understanding of their religious roles.
Rethinking Jewishness in Networked Publics: The Case of Post-Communist Hungary
Author(s): Manchin, Anna
Editor(s): Bronner, Simon J.; Battegay, Caspar
Date: 2018
Topics: Main Topic: Identity and Community, Jewish Community, Social Media, Virtual Community
Repopulating Jewish Poland – In Wood
Author(s): Lehrer, Erica
Editor(s): Steinlauf, Michael C.; Polonsky, Antony
Date: 2003
Topics: Main Topic: Culture and Heritage, Jewish Heritage, Tourism, Memory, Jewish Arts, Jewish Culture, Jewish Revival
Yiddish: Identity and Language Politics in the Post-Soviet Ukrainian Jewish Community
Author(s): Khanin, Vladimir (Zeev)
Editor(s): Petrovsky-Shtern, Yohanan; Polonsky, Antony
Date: 2013
Topics: Main Topic: Identity and Community, Jewish Community, Yiddish, Language, Jewish Revival
Abstract: Revival of Jewish national and cultural life and its organizational structure has been highly significant in the post-Soviet environment of the recent decades. Attempts to institutionalize Jewish communities in the countries of the former Soviet Union—post-Soviet Jews, no matter where they live today, need to resolve a plethora of problems similar in nature but different in scope. The search for cultural, national, and linguistic identity remains a firm objective. It is only natural that in such circumstances the language problem is a key identifying factor. The article looks at the contemporary role and status of Yiddish taking the example of Ukraine, where the tradition of this language, has never been broken despite the hardships and troubles of the past century.
The Framing of the Jew: Paradigms of Incorporation and Difference in the Jewish Heritage Revival in Poland
Author(s): Waligórska, Magdalena
Editor(s): Bronner, Simon J.
Date: 2014
Topics: Jewish Heritage, Jewish Culture, Jewish Revival, Main Topic: Culture and Heritage
Jewish Identities in the New Europe
Editor(s): Webber, Jonathan
Date: 1994
Topics: Post-1989, Demography, Jewish Revival, Jewish Identity, Rabbis, Jewish Continuity, Holocaust Commemoration, Memory, Zionism, Main Topic: Identity and Community
Abstract: How do the Jews of post-Holocaust, post-communist Europe—east and west—regard themselves: as a religious minority, an ethnic group, or simply as ordinary members of the communities in which they live? How do they regard non-Jews and relate to the Jews of other European countries? Is Israel a factor in forging these relationships? In confronting these questions, the contributors to this book—all of them writers with significant international reputations—cover a wide range of topics from different perspectives.

Contents:
Introduction JONATHAN WEBBER
Part 1 A Changing Europe
1 The Jews of Europe in the Age of a New Völkerwanderung MAX BELOFF
2 Changing Jewish Identities in the New Europe and the Consequences for Israel ELIEZER SCHWEID
Part 2 Demographic and Sociological Considerations
3 An Overview of the Demographic Trends of European Jewry SERGIO DELLAPERGOLA
4 Modern Jewish Identities JONATHAN WEBBER
5 Judaism in the New Europe: Discovery or Invention? NORMAN SOLOMON
Part 3 Hopes and Uncertainties in Religious Trends
6 The Jewish Jew and Western Culture: Fallible Predictions for the Turn of the Century NORMAN LAMM
7 From Integration to Survival to Continuity: The Third Great Era of Modern Jewry JONATHAN SACKS
8 The Role of the Rabbi in the New Europe JONATHAN MAGONET
Part 4 Jewish Communities in Former Communist Countries
9 Jewish Communities and Jewish Identities in the Former Soviet Union MIKHAIL A. CHLENOV
10 Constructing New Identities in the Former Soviet Union: The Challenge for Jews IGOR KRUPNIK
11 Changes in Jewish Identity in Modern Hungary ANDRAS KOVACS
12 Jewish Identities in Poland: New, Old, and imaginary KONSTANTY GEBERT
Part 5 Jewish Communities in Western Europe
13 Israélites and Juifs: New Jewish Identities in France DOMINIQUE SCHNAPPER
14 The Notion of a 'Jewish Community' in France: A Special Case of Jewish Identity SHMUEL TRIGANO
15 British Jewry: Religious Community or Ethnic Minority? GEOFFREY ALDERMAN
16 Religious Practice and Jewish Identity in a Sample of London Jews STEPHEN H. MILLER
17 Jewish Identity in the Germany of a New Europe JULIUS CARLEBACH
Part 6 Rethinking Interfaith Relations in a Post-Holocaust World
18 The Dangers of Antisemitism in the New Europe ROBERT S. WISTRICH
19 The Holocaust as a Factor in Contemporary Jewish Consciousness EVYATAR FRIESEL
20 The Impact of Auschwitz and Vatican II on Christian Perceptions of Jewish Identity ELISABETH MAXWELL
21 A New Catholic-Jewish Relationship for Europe PIER FRANCESCO FUMAGALLI
22 Possible Implications of the New Age Movement for the Jewish People MARGARET BREARLEY
Part 7 Jewish Europe as Seen from Without
23 The New Europe and the Zionist Dilemma DANIEL GUTWEIN
24 Jewish Renewal in the New Europe: An American Jewish Perspective DAVID SINGE
Beyond the Community: Jewish Day School Education in Britain
Author(s): Miller, Helena
Editor(s): Pomson, Alex; Deitcher, Howard
Date: 2009
Topics: Jewish Schools, Schools: Seconday / High Schools, Main Topic: Education
Mutual Relations between Shlichim and Local Teachers at Jewish Schools in the Former Soviet Union
Author(s): Tair, Uriel; Dashefsky, Ira
Editor(s): Pomson, Alex; Deitcher, Howard
Date: 2009
Topics: Jewish Schools, Teaching, Shlichut, Main Topic: Education
Do Jewish Schools Make a Difference in the Former Soviet Union?
Author(s): Gitelman, Zvi
Editor(s): Pomson, Alex; Deitcher, Howard
Date: 2009
Topics: Jewish Schools, Main Topic: Education
Jewish Pupils’ Perspectives on Religious Education and Expectations of a Religious Community: A Case Study of the Jewish High School in Berlin
Author(s): Müller, Christine
Editor(s): Pomson, Alex; Deitcher, Howard
Date: 2009
Topics: Jewish Schools, Schools: Seconday / High Schools, Jewish Education, Main Topic: Education, Religious Education, Religious Belief, Religious Observance and Practice
Comparison of Attitudes, Behaviours and Values of French Jewish Families with Children Enrolled in Jewish Day Schools and Other School Systems
Author(s): Cohen, Erik H.
Editor(s): Pomson, Alex; Deitcher, Howard
Date: 2009
Topics: Jewish Schools, Schools: Non-Jewish, Main Topic: Education