Jewish Peoplehood : : Change and Challenge / / ed. by Menachem Revivi, Ezra Kopelowitz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Backlist eBook-Package 2008-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Ariel, Yonatan,; Bouganim, Ami,; Eisen, Arnold,; Geller, Laura,; Govrin, Michal,; Halbertal, Moshe,; Hoffmann, Alan,; Kopelowitz, Ezra,; Prell, Riv-Ellen,; Revivi, Menachem,; Rosenak, Michael,; Ruskay, John S.,; Trigano, Shmuel,; Walzer, Michael,
• HerausgeberIn: Kopelowitz, Ezra,; Revivi, Menachem,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Reference Library of Jewish Intellectual History
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (204 p.)

At a time when Jewish communities have become increasingly anxious about weakening Jewish identity, one response strategy is to engage with the concept of Jewish peoplehood as a social phenomenon, in its varied contexts and processes. This volume represents the first in-depth effort to address the c...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Editors’ Note
• Introduction: Four Questions Concerning Peoplehood — And Just as Many Answers
• The Problem of Jewish Peoplehood
• The Anomalies of Jewish Political Identity
• On Modern Jewish Identities
• The Jewish People and the Israeli Nation
• Jewish Sectarianism and Jewish Peoplehood
• A Sociologist’s Guide for Building Jewish Peoplehood
• A New Understanding of Peoplehood: The Jewish Conversation
• Against the Cultural Grain: Jewish Peoplehood for the 21st Century
• Jewish Literary Manifesto (in First Person Feminine)
• Your People Shall Be My People. Notes on Nurturing Jewish Peoplehood
• Afterword
• Author Biographies
• Index