Living Jewishly : : A Snapshot of a Generation / / ed. by Stefanie Pervos Bregman.
In the Jewish communal world, engaging 20- and 30-somethings is a hot button issue: How do we get young Jews to feel connected to Israel? To affiliate with traditional Jewish institutions? To care about Jewish continuity, ritual and tradition? As a member of this exclusive community, Stefanie Bregma...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Backlist eBook-Package 2008-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Jewish Identities in Post-Modern Society
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (186 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- I AM JEWISH -- PROLOGUE -- ARE WE MOVING BEYOND DENOMINATIONAL BORDERS? -- STARK NAKED OR FULLY DRESSED - WE’RE ALL THE SAME -- THE PLAN -- SHOMER NEGIAH IN THE CITY -- CONVERTED TO REFORM -- ANATOMY OF AN ACTIVIST -- HEBREW - A LOVE/HATE RELATIONSHIP -- DOES BEING A JEWISH YOUNG PROFESSIONAL TODAY MEAN NEVER MEASURING UP? -- CARD CARRYING MEMBER -- MY JEWISH JOURNEY: HOW BEING CATHOLIC HELPED MAKE ME JEWISH -- JUARTISM -- NOT YOUR GRANDFATHER’S MINYAN (ALTHOUGH HE MIGHT BE THERE TOO) -- THE BEGINNER -- 34 IS THE NEW “TWEEN” -- A FAITHFUL DECISION -- FOOD FIGHTS -- TO BE A JEW IN THE WORLD -- WHY THE HECK I BECAME A RABBI -- VOLITION -- SURVIVING MIKVAH 101 -- INGESTING JUDAISM -- MY GRANDFATHER’S BOXES -- HOW DO YOU DEFINE ME? -- THE BEST KEPT SECRET IN JEWISH MARRIAGE -- UNPLUGGING EXPECTATIONS -- THE RUMORS OF HER DEATH -- WHO IS A JEW?: EXPLORING MY NON-KOSHER JUDAISM -- AM I A JEW-A-SAUR? -- WITHOUT KNOWING I HAD EVER BEEN LOST -- CONVERSION OF COMFORT -- WE LIVE IN LOVING MEMORIES -- FEEDING MY JEWISH SOUL -- A NEW KIND OF JEWISH GEOGRAPHY -- NOSH, DAVIN, KVELL OR EAT, PRAY, LOVE THE WEST SIDE WAY -- THE GODFATHER -- SUMMER DAYS, SUMMER NIGHTS -- LIVE, LOVE, LEARN . . . BUT IN WHAT ORDER? -- MY (JEWISH-INTERFAITHLESBIAN) WEDDING -- HEBREW NAMES. OR, DREAMING OF VARDIT -- CAN YOU DATE ME NOW? GOOD -- THE INTELLECTUAL GIVER -- SORRY I DON’T TOUCH MEN: TRUE CONFESSIONS OF A CELIBATE DATER -- EPILOGUE -- SUBJECT INDEX FOR ESSAYS -- Acknowledgments |
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Summary: | In the Jewish communal world, engaging 20- and 30-somethings is a hot button issue: How do we get young Jews to feel connected to Israel? To affiliate with traditional Jewish institutions? To care about Jewish continuity, ritual and tradition? As a member of this exclusive community, Stefanie Bregman set out to tackle these questions and sought out to compile a collection of personal essays and memoirs from Jewish 20- and 30-somethings across the country. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781618111852 9783111024080 9783110688146 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9781618111852 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by Stefanie Pervos Bregman. |