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Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 Jewish Peoplehood: Hard, Soft, and Interactive Markers /Sergio Della Pergola -- 2 From World-Wide People to First-World People: The Consolidation of World Jewry /Jonathan D. Sarna -- 3 The "Jewish Peoplehood" Concept: Complications and Suggestions /Shulamit Reinharz -- 4 Ethnicity and State Policy: The State of Israel in the Intellectual and Political Discourse of the US Jewish Press /Yosef Gorny -- 5 Close and Distant: The Relations between Israel and the Diaspora /Ephraim Yuchtman-Ya'ar and Steven M. Cohen -- 6 The Reform and Conservative Movements in Israel: Strategies of Peripheral Movements in a Monopolized Religious Market /Yael Israel-Cohen -- 7 Two Orthodox Cultures: "Centrist" Orthodoxy and Religious Zionism /Shlomo Fischer -- 8 Ethnicity and Transnationalism: Latino Jews in Miami /Margalit Bejarano -- 9 Strong Ethnicity: The Case of US-born Jews in Israel /Nissim Leon -- 10 Orthodox Jewish Women as a Bridge Between Israel and the Diaspora /Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz -- 11 Gender, Religion, and the Search for a Modern Jewish Identity in "La rabina" by Silvia Plager /Florinda F. Goldberg -- 12 Global Jewish Youth Studies—Towards a Theory /Erik H. Cohen -- 13 Generational and Cultural Constructions of Jewish Peoplehood /Sylvia Barack Fishman -- 14 Debasing Praise: Hatred of the Jews in a Global Age /Shmuel Trigano -- 15 Integration and Antisemitism: The Case of French Jewry /Chantal Bordes-Benayoun -- 16 How Antisemitism, Obsessive Criticism of Israel, and Do-Gooders Complicate Jewish Life in Germany /Julius H. Schoeps -- 17 Anti-Zionist Discourse of the Left in Latin America: An Assessment /Leonardo Senkman -- 18 American Jews and the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process: A Study of Diaspora in International Affairs /Uzi Rebhun , Chaim I. Waxman and Nadia Beider -- 19 Jewish Diaspora and Transnationalism: Awkward (Dance) Partners? /Judit Bokser-Liwerant -- 20 The Dialectics of Diaspora in Contemporary Modernity /Lars Dencik -- 21 Reflections on Israel and Jerusalem as the Centers of World Jewry /Gabi Sheffer -- 22 Israel-Diaspora Relations: "Transmission Driving-belts" of Transnationalism /Eliezer Ben-Rafael -- Epilogue: One—After All. . . . for the Time Being -- Index.

Preliminary Material -- 1 A Sinuous History -- 2 Antisemitism and Allosemitism -- 3 Contemporary Perceptions and Attitudes of Europe's Jews -- 4 Belgian Jews: A Long Story -- 5 The Belgian Sample -- 6 Social Features and Perceptions -- 7 Origins of Jewishness and Community -- 8 Religiosity and Antisemitism -- 9 Belgian Jewry Compared -- 10 Neo-Jewishness and Allosemitism -- A Personal Afterword -- Appendix -- References -- Index.

When examining how the social sciences have dealt with ideology, one's first impression is often one of considerable confusion. Sociology in particular is the scene of heated debates about ideology. These debates go sometimes so far as to echo doubts of participants with regard to their opponents' scientific endeavor, even straightforward denials of their scientific status. This volume brings together a series of articles that throw light on selected aspects of this intricate matter by well-known sociologists Boudon, Wittrock, Arnason, Touraine, Smolicz, Secombe, Wieviorka, Ben-Rafael and Sternberg

Who and what is a Jew? Is there any common denominator between an ultra-Orthodox rabbi of an Israeli North African community and a Berkeley academic of the Movement for a Secular and Humanistic Judaism? Do Jews the world over convergre and emphasize their unity or do they share contrasting concepts of collective identity? Part I of this book presents a systematic discussion of Jewish identities in this era of (post)modernity. The opportunity is offered by a set of invaluable texts, which appear in Part II. These texts about Jewish identity were invited, in 1958, by Ben-Gurion from 50 intellectuals - rabbis, writers, scientists and lawyers -, from the Diaspora and Israel, representative of the principal streams of contemporary Jewish thought

La fundación del Estado de Israel se acompañó de un proyecto social, cultural y político destinado a asegurar la creación de una nación homogénea. La clase media proveniente de Europa oriental y su visión laica de la cultura judía en Israel ha tenido una ; The founding of the state of Israel was accompanied by a social, cultural and political project, which aim was to secure the establishment of a homogenous nation. The middle class, which originated from Eastern Europe, and its secular vision of the state

Contemporary diasporas are studied from many different perspectives. One widely acknowledged aspect is their capacity to illustrate dual homeness, and their challenging national cultures' aspiration to sociocultural unity. Insertion into new societies tends today to erode the singularity of diasporic communities, but the symbols they retain or create may still warrant cultural reproduction as transnational entities. The conceptual distinction between collective identity, identification, and identifying is helpful when considering how diasporas have become a factor in the multiculturalization of present-day societies, while themselves becoming multicultural entities through the influence of the cultures prevailing in the diverse environments of their dispersed communities. The incoherent – even chaotic – realities these contradictory tendencies generate for analysts are not necessarily perceived in these terms by the actors. Their presence in societies, their impact on non-diasporic populations, the new relations they create between original and new homelands, and above all their endeavor as interconnected cross-national spaces, represent developments that contribute to moving society towards a new era.

The numberless unprecedented situations attached today to the concept of transnational diaspora arise the debate of whether or not this phenomenon signals a new era. Our own contention is that it does represent a factor of new kinds of heterogenization of both the societal reality and of the diasporas themselves, as worldwide entities. It is in this dialectic perspective that we describe transnational diasporas as causes of discontinuity in our world and point out to the qualitative change in the social fabrics that they represent. Among other aspects, dual or threefold homeness that is bound to the transnational condition signifies for diasporans a slipping away from the totalistic character of the commitment and view of the nation that the nation-state requires of its citizens. When viewed in its multiplicity, the cohabitation under the same societal roof of a priori alien socio-cultural entities yields a configuration that is not uniform in every setting, but which still responds in its essentials to the new reality experienced by many a contemporary society. To illustrate this approach, this paper compares four well-known contemporary transnational diasporas namely, the Muslim, African, Hispanic and Chinese. Adapted from the source document.