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Book SynopsisIn this era of globalization, Jewish diversity is marked more than ever by transnational expansion of competing movements and local influences on specific conditions. One factor that still makes Jewish communities one is the common reference to Israel. Today, however, differentiations and discrepancies in identification and behavior generate plurality and ambiguities about Israel-Diaspora relationships. Moreover the Judeophobia now rife in Europe and beyond as well as the spread of the Palestinian cause as a civil religion make Israel the world’s "Jew among nations.” This weighs heavily on community relations - despite Israel’s active presence in the diaspora. In this context, the contributions to this volume focus on Jewish peoplehood, religiosity and ethnicity, gender and generation, Israelophobia and world Jewry, and debate the perspectives that are most pertinent to confront the question: how far is the Jewish Commonwealth (Klal Yisrael) still an important code of Jewry today?
Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I. JEWISH PEOPLEHOOD: CHANGING PATTERNS OF ISRAEL-DIASPORA RELATIONS 1. Sergio Della Pergola: Jewish Peoplehood: Hard, Soft, and Interactive Markers 2. Jonathan D. Sarna: From World-Wide People to First-World People: The Consolidation (fn. concentration) of World Jewry 3. Shulamit Reinharz: The “Jewish Peoplehood” Concept: Complications and Suggestions 4. Yosef Gorny: Ethnicity and State Policy: The State of Israel in the Intellectual and Political Discourse of the US Jewish Press 5. Ephraim Yuchtman-Ya’ar and Steven M. Cohen: Close and Distant: The Relations between Israel and the Diaspora PART II. RELIGIOSITY AND ETHNICITY 6. Yael Israel-Cohen: The Reform and Conservative Movements in Israel: Strategies of Peripheral Movements in a Monopolized Religious Market 7. Shlomo Fischer: Two Orthodox Cultures: “Centrist” Orthodoxy and Religious Zionism 8. Margalit Bejarano: Ethnicity and Transnationalism: Latino Jews in Miami 9. Nissim Leon: Strong Ethnicity: The Case of US-born Jews in Israel PART III. GENDER AND GENERATION 10. Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz: Orthodox Jewish Women as a Bridge Between Israel and the Diaspora 11. Florinda Goldberg: Gender, Religion, and the Search for a Modern Jewish Identity in "La Rabina" by Silvia Plager 12. Erik H. Cohen: Global Jewish Youth Studies - Towards a Theory 13. Sylvia Barack Fishman: Generational and Cultural Constructions of Jewish Peoplehood PART IV. ISRAELOPHOBIA, ANTI-ZIONISM AND “NEO”-ANTISEMITISM 14. Shmuel Trigano: Debasing Praise: Hatred of the Jews in a Global Age 15. Chantal Bordes-Benayoun: Integration and Antisemitism: The Case of French Jewry 16. Julius H. Schoeps: How Antisemitism, Obsessive Criticism of Israel, and Do-Gooders Complicate Jewish Life in Germany 17. Leonardo Senkman: Anti-Zionist Discourse of the Left in Latin America: An Assessment. 18. Uzi Rebhun, Chaim I. Waxman, Nadia Beider: American Jews and the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process: A Study of Diaspora in International Affairs PART V. CONFIGURATIONS OF WORLD JEWRY AND THE STATE OF ISRAEL 19. Judit Bokser-Liwerant: Jewish Diaspora and Transnationalism: Awkward (Dance) Partners? 20. Lars Dencik: The Dialectics of Diaspora in Contemporary Modernity 21. Gabi Sheffer: Reflections on Israel and Jerusalem as the Centers of World Jewry 22. Eliezer Ben-Rafael: Israel-Diaspora Relations: "Transmission Driving-belts" of Transnationalism Epilogue: One - After All....for the time being
