Author: Walter I. Ackerman
Publisher: New York : Published in collaboration with the Institute of Human Relations Press [by] Basic Books
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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Author: United States. Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government (1953-1955)
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Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 1640

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Author: Simon N. Herman
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9781412826877
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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Employing insights from a broadly conceived social psychology, Simon N. Herman examines contemporary Jewish life in its totality as a constellation of interdependent factors. He sets forth criteria for the Jewish identity, analyzes the religious and national elements that interweave in it, the constancies and variations in that identity across the years and across countries, the impact on it of the Holocaust and the establishment of the state of Israel. An illuminating chapter is devoted to the question "Who is a Jew?" In his foreword to the fkst edition of this volume, Herbert Kelman of Harvard University described it as "a pioneering contribution to the study of ethnic/national identity." The second edition incorporates additional data derived from two recent studies conducted by the author. It includes a discussion of the direction of changes in the Jewish identity in the decade since publication of the first edition. Special attention is given to the Jewish reactions to the worldwide resurgence of anti-Semitism and to the turbulent events in and around Israel. A careful analysis is undertaken of the factors in the present situation that strengthen and weaken the Jewish identity.

Author: Marshall Sklare
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 422

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Author: Jon A. Levisohn
Publisher: Academic Studies PRess
ISBN: 1644691183
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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There is something deeply problematic about the ways that Jews, particularly in America, talk about “Jewish identity” as a desired outcome of Jewish education. For many, the idea that the purpose of Jewish education is to strengthen Jewish identity is so obvious that it hardly seems worth disputing—and the only important question is which kinds of Jewish education do that work more effectively or more efficiently. But what does it mean to “strengthen Jewish identity”? Why do Jewish educators, policy-makers and philanthropists talk that way? What do they assume, about Jewish education or about Jewish identity, when they use formulations like “strengthen Jewish identity”? And what are the costs of doing so? This volume, the first collection to examine critically the relationship between Jewish education and Jewish identity, makes two important interventions. First, it offers a critical assessment of the relationship between education and identity, arguing that the reification of identity has hampered much educational creativity in the pursuit of this goal, and that the nearly ubiquitous employment of the term obscures significant questions about what Jewish education is and ought to be. Second, this volume offers thoughtful responses that are not merely synonymous replacements for “identity,” suggesting new possibilities for how to think about the purposes and desired outcomes of Jewish education, potentially contributing to any number of new conversations about the relationship between Jewish education and Jewish life.

Author: Marshall Sklare
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9781412840620
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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The first systematic assessment of present-day American Jewry, Sklare's book brings together the foremost Jewish scholars to examine such topics as Jewish demography, identity, religion and religious life, education, family, community structure, and in-tergroup relations. With candor and accuracy, each essay breaks new ground in the field of Jewish studies and makes an important contribution to American social science. Contents and Contributors: Calvin Goldscheider, "Demography of Jewish Americans"; Harold S. Him-melfarb, "Research on American Jewish Identity and Identification"; Charles S. Liebman, "The Religious Life of American Jewry"; David A. Resnick, "Toward an Agenda for Research in Jewish Education"; Sheila B. Kamerman, "Jews and Other People: An Agenda for Research on Families and Family Policies"; Chaim I. Wax-man, "The Family and the American Jewish Community on the Threshold of the 1980s"; Daniel J. Elazar, "The Jewish Community as a Polity"; Earl Raab, "Jews among Others"; Ira Sil-verman, "Research Needs of National Jewish Organizations"; Bruce A. Phillips, "Research Needs of Local Jewish Communities"; Marshall Sklare, "On the Preparation of a Sociology of American Jewry"; Drora Kass and Seymour Martin Lipset, "Jewish Immigration to the United States from 1967 to the Present."

Author: Will Maslow
Publisher:
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Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Author: United States. Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government (1953-1955)
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Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 1544

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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Category : Jewish religious education
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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