Beyond Jewish Identity : : Rethinking Concepts and Imagining Alternatives / / Ari Y. Kelman, Jon A. Levisohn, editors.

This volume, while not the first to explore and critique the concept of Jewish identity, makes two important interventions into contemporary understandings of American Jewish life. It is the first collection to critically examine the relationship between Jewish education and Jewish identity. Insofar...

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Place / Publishing House:Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press,, [2019]
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Year of Publication:2020
2019
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (290 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction / Levisohn, Jon A. / Kelman, Ari Y.
  • Taking Jewish Identity Metaphors Literally / Gottlieb, Eli
  • You are Jewish if You Want to Be: The Limits of Identity in a World of Multiple Practices / Mehta, Samira K.
  • On the Origins and Persistence of the Jewish Identity Industry in Jewish Education / Krasner, Jonathan
  • Identity and Crisis: The Origins of Identity as an Educational Outcome / Kelman, Ari Y.
  • Regarding the "Real" Jew: Authenticity Anxieties Around Poland's "Generation Unexpected" / Reszke, Katka
  • Re-Thinking American Jewish Zionist Identity: A Case for Post-Zionism in the Diaspora (Based on the Writings of R. Menachem Froman) / Magid, Shaul
  • Jewish Educators Don't Make Jews: A Sociological Reality Check About Jewish Identity Work / Zelkowicz, Tali
  • Beyond Language Proficiency: Fostering Metalinguistic Communities in Jewish Educational Settings / Benor, Sarah Bunin / Avineri, Netta
  • Where is the Next Soviet Jewry Movement? How Identity Education Forgot the Lessons that Jewish Activism Taught / Kelner, Shaul
  • Jewish Education as Initiation into the Practices of Jewishness / Levisohn, Jon A.
  • Jewish Sensibilities: Toward a New Language for Jewish Educational Goal-Setting / Moore, Lee / Woocher, Jonathan
  • Index