Reconsidering Israel-diaspora relations / / edited by Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Judit Bokser Liwerant, and Yosef Gorny.

• Superior document: Jewish Identities in a Changing World, Volume 22
• TeilnehmendeR: Ben Rafael, Eliezer,; Bokser de Liwerant, Judit,; Gorni, Yosef,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Jewish identities in a changing world ; Volume 22.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (501 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

In 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? This book is also available in paperback.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 Jewish Peoplehood: Hard, Soft, and Interactive Markers / Sergio Della Pergola -- 2 From World-Wide People to First-World People: The Consolidation of World Jewry / Jonathan D. Sarna -- 3 The “Jewish Peoplehood” Concept: Complications and Suggestions / Shulamit Reinharz -- 4 Ethnicity and State Policy: The State of Israel in the Intellectual and Political Discourse of the US Jewish Press / Yosef Gorny -- 5 Close and Distant: The Relations between Israel and the Diaspora / Ephraim Yuchtman-Ya’ar and Steven M. Cohen -- 6 The Reform and Conservative Movements in Israel: Strategies of Peripheral Movements in a Monopolized Religious Market / Yael Israel-Cohen -- 7 Two Orthodox Cultures: “Centrist” Orthodoxy and Religious Zionism / Shlomo Fischer -- 8 Ethnicity and Transnationalism: Latino Jews in Miami / Margalit Bejarano -- 9 Strong Ethnicity: The Case of US-born Jews in Israel / Nissim Leon -- 10 Orthodox Jewish Women as a Bridge Between Israel and the Diaspora / Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz -- 11 Gender, Religion, and the Search for a Modern Jewish Identity in “La rabina” by Silvia Plager / Florinda F. Goldberg -- 12 Global Jewish Youth Studies—Towards a Theory / Erik H. Cohen -- 13 Generational and Cultural Constructions of Jewish Peoplehood / Sylvia Barack Fishman -- 14 Debasing Praise: Hatred of the Jews in a Global Age / Shmuel Trigano -- 15 Integration and Antisemitism: The Case of French Jewry / Chantal Bordes-Benayoun -- 16 How Antisemitism, Obsessive Criticism of Israel, and Do-Gooders Complicate Jewish Life in Germany / Julius H. Schoeps -- 17 Anti-Zionist Discourse of the Left in Latin America: An Assessment / Leonardo Senkman -- 18 American Jews and the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process: A Study of Diaspora in International Affairs / Uzi Rebhun , Chaim I. Waxman and Nadia Beider -- 19 Jewish Diaspora and Transnationalism: Awkward (Dance) Partners? / Judit Bokser-Liwerant -- 20 The Dialectics of Diaspora in Contemporary Modernity / Lars Dencik -- 21 Reflections on Israel and Jerusalem as the Centers of World Jewry / Gabi Sheffer -- 22 Israel-Diaspora Relations: “Transmission Driving-belts” of Transnationalism / Eliezer Ben-Rafael -- Epilogue: One—After All. . . . for the Time Being -- Index.