Contemporary Jewry Research Articles

A People Divided: Judaism in Contemporary America.

This brilliant analysis of American Judaism in the last half of the 20th century won the 1993-94 National Jewish Book Award for the best book on contemporary Jewry and also was named an Outstanding Book of 1993 by Choice. Jack Wertheimer examines how fundamental changes in American society have affected Jewish religious and communal life, paying special attention to contradictions and schisms that threaten the integrity of American Jewish practices and beliefs. A People Divided remains an essential primer for anyone interested in the ongoing debate about what constitutes Jewishness and who is a Jew.

Recent articles on contemporary jewry: A bibliography of works published in 1992-3

Recent articles on contemporary jewry: A bibliography of works published in 1992-3

Recent articles on contemporary jewry: a bibliography of works published in 1992

Recent articles on contemporary jewry: a bibliography of works published in 1992

Recent articles on contemporary jewry: A bibliography of works published in 1991

Recent articles on contemporary jewry: A bibliography of works published in 1991

Mental Illness and Other Forms of Psychiatric Deviance Among Contemporary Jewry 1

Mental Illness and Other Forms of Psychiatric Deviance Among Contemporary Jewry 1

Oral history of contemporary Jewry: an annotated catalogue

Oral history of contemporary Jewry: an annotated catalogue

The Contemporary Jewry Database: Coordination and Flexibility in Bibliographical Registration and Retrieval

The Contemporary Jewry Database: Coordination and Flexibility in Bibliographical Registration and Retrieval

Reviews of Books

Reviews of Books Get access Studies in Contemporary Jewry. Vol. III: Jews and Other Ethnic Groups in a Multi-Ethnic World. Edited by EZRA MENDELSOHN . (New York: Oxford U. P., 1987; pp. xiii + 345. £25); Jewish Apostasy in the Modern World. Edited by TODD M. ENDELMAN . (New York: Holmes & Meier, 1987; pp. ix + 344. $39.50). STEVEN BELLER STEVEN BELLER Peterhouse, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CIV, Issue CCCCX, January 1989, Pages 146–147, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CIV.CCCCX.146 Published: 01 January 1989

Benjamin Pinkus. The Soviet Government and the Jews 1948-1967: A Documented History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. xiv, 612 pp. $59.50. Published in association with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, -Institute of Contemporary Jewry, and the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Benjamin Pinkus. The Soviet Government and the Jews 1948-1967: A Documented History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. xiv, 612 pp. $59.50. Published in association with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, -Institute of Contemporary Jewry, and the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Christian Ethics and the Holocaust: A Dialogue with Post-Auschwitz Judaism

T PRESENTATION is a modest attempt to confront some overarching ethical issues emerging from the Holocaust and from contemporary Jewry's reflection on that orienting experience, as Irving Greenberg has termed it. Throughout this essay and are used interchangeably, even though they have often been distinguished in the past on the basis of their grounding (philosophy for ethics, Scripture/ theology for morality). Both terms involve fundamental orientation as well as more specific principles and applications. The exploration I am about to undertake will focus almost exclusively on ethics or morality as basic life-orientation, even though towards the end, in treating issues such as power, I will move towards the specific considerations. The contention of the essay throughout is that the experience of the Holocaust has profoundly altered the very basis for morality in our time. I have addressed aspects of the question in other writings. I am also acutely aware that one of the profoundest ethical challenges facing the Christian Church after the Holocaust is its own credibility as a moral voice. While subscribing to the view held by a number of Jewish and Christian scholars that the principal parents of the Holocaust are to be found in modern secular philosophies which were at their core also antiChristian, there remains little doubt that traditional preaching and teaching in the churches constituted an indispensable seedbed for the success of the Nazi effort. The point needs to be made, and made strongly, that if Christianity wishes to enter the general discussion of morality after the Holocaust, it can do so authentically only if it seriously commits itself to a full and final purge of all remaining anti-Semitism in its theology, catechetics, and liturgy, and if it is willing to submit its World War II record to a thorough scrutiny by respected scholars. Likewise, Christianity will need

Contemporary jewry: review and overview

Contemporary jewry: review and overview

Contemporary Jewry: Past, Present, and Future

Contemporary Jewry: Past, Present, and Future

The Soviet Government and the Jews, 1948-1967: A Documented Study. By Benjamin Pinkus. General editor, Jonathan Frankel. Cambridge, London, New York, New Rochelle, Melbourne, and Sydney: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Published in association with the Institute of Contemporary Jewry and the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, xvi, 612 pp. Tables. $59.50, cloth.

The Soviet Government and the Jews, 1948-1967: A Documented Study. By Benjamin Pinkus. General editor, Jonathan Frankel. Cambridge, London, New York, New Rochelle, Melbourne, and Sydney: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Published in association with the Institute of Contemporary Jewry and the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, xvi, 612 pp. Tables. $59.50, cloth. - Volume 45 Issue 2

The contemporary jewish studies of marshall sklare

By virtue of his first book, published more than 20 years ago, Marshall Sklare became the leading spokesman for the sociological study of contemporary American Jewry. He began that book—on Conservative Judaism—with the statement that much of the territory on contemporary Jewish religious movements constituted a terra incognita, though abundant material on historical aspects of the Jewish com munity existed (1955a: 15). More than any other individual, Sklare has been responsible for the development of the sociological study of Jewry. As another writer (Singer, 1975) has stated, "Sklare can be credited with almost single-handedly establishing 'contemporary Jewish studies.' " While not the field's only researcher —as Sklare himself notes in a recent essay—he has been the field's major researcher and teacher, as well as its leading spokesman. Further, he has published more prolifically and taught specifically in the area of contemporary Jewish studies (and especially the sociology of Jewry) longer than any other individual. As Sklare notes in his recent essay (1974d), there have been several approaches to the sociological study of Jewry: (1) the assimilationist approach, represented by pre-World War II Jewish sociologists who viewed American Jews "as a dying people whose existence is artificially prolonged by Gentile prejudice," and focused on ways of easing the Jews' redefinition of themselves from "Jew" to "secularist"; (2) the critical intellectual approach, represented by post-World War II, left-oriented, Jewish sociologists who viewed American Jews "as a reprehensible group which has succumbed to corruptions resulting from newly achieved class position," and praised the ghetto's "sense of community" and "left-orientation" while criticizing the current community; (3) the survivalist approach, represented by a 1950s-'70s group varying widely in Jewish commitment, being neither assimilationists nor critics per se, but focusing on identity problems of contemporary American Jewry from a pluralistic perspective (p. 165). The distinctions among these categories are not clear cut but, not adhering strictly to the suggested time sequence, are accurate overall categorizations. Sklare clearly falls into the survivalist category. Assimilationists are not interested in developing a sociology of Jewry; rather, they explain why such a sociology should not exist. The critical intellectuals, while committed to Jewish identity (but probably more universalistic than they recognize), are more concerned with criticizing than with comprehensively analyzing. On the

Education and the Derived Demand for Children

A negative correlation across households between parent's education and completed fertility is one of the most widely and frequently observed relationships in the empirical literature on human fertility behavior. In this paper I utilize the emerging economic theory of household behavior, which is also employed in other papers in this Supplement, to formulate an explanation for this observed negative correlation. In particular, the paper has two objectives: (1) to consider the mechanisms through which a couple's level of education might affect their fertility and (2) to document the effects of education on one of these mechanisms that is an aspect of fertility control-the choice of a contraceptive technique. The following section briefly outlines the theoretical framework, and in Section III I discuss the mechanisms through which education's influence may operate. Throughout, the discussion is restricted to channels of influence from education to fertility; that is, the reverse causation is ruled out by assumption. The specific focus of this discussion should not be interpreted as an assertion of the exclusiveness or the primacy of education's influence on fertility. Section IV considers the fertility-control decision in greater detail. It also reports on my initial empirical work with the 1965 National Fertility Study, a nationwide sociological survey of 5,600 U.S. women undertaken by the Office of Population Research at

Jewish Teacher Training Schools by Alexander M. Dushkin. Jerusalem: Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University, 1970. 128 pp

Jewish Teacher Training Schools by Alexander M. Dushkin. Jerusalem: Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University, 1970. 128 pp

Les Communautés Hassidiques, sources et trésors pour la sociologie religieuse de la judaïcité

In its beginnings, in the 18th century in Ukraine, the Hassi dic mystique was in opposition to the structures of official Judaism. With the coming of modern society, however, which is leading to the break up of traditional communities, the Hassidic communities today still appear, in spite of certain specific characteristics, as the bastion of Jewish religious ob servance. Their religiosity, which is interesting for its own sake in more ways than one, is of very great value for making both diachronical and synchronical comparisons. Great em phasis is placed upon the study of the Talmud by the Hassidic community ; the influence of its teaching, particularly that relating to economic life, has been profound. This almost unique survival of talmudism (although the Hassidim have ameliorated its excesses) corresponds to archaic economic structures, with occupations — like artisian or merchant — re maining as « independent » of each other as possible. Never theless these structures still allow contact with the global society which tuns counter to the type of ethnic particularism which distinguishes the Hassidim. As Jewish values and rules permeate every level of life an examination of their operation among the Hassidim, where, more than anywhere else, they will appear clearly at work, would prove very fruitful. Or thodox Jews and even some secularized Jews have common roots, but the Hassidim have a particular relationship with other Jews. Hassidic communities will in some sense constitute a « structure of structures » for contemporary Jewry. and in this sense their peculiar inconsistencies are particularly revealing.

Israeli Society, A New Sense of Purpose: Four letters to the Jews and Israel and the Developing Countries: New Approaches to Cooperation

Journal Article Israeli Society, A New Sense of Purpose: Four letters to the Jews and Israel and the Developing Countries: New Approaches to Cooperation Get access Israeli Society. By S. N. Eisenstadt. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1968. 451 pp. Bibliog. Index. (The Nature of Human Society Series. Eds.: Julian Pitt-Rivers and Ernest Gellner. Publication Series in the History of Zionism and the Yishuv, The Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.) 75s.A New Sense of Purpose: Four letters to the Jews. By Eran Laor. Trans. by Maurice Carr. Preface by Jacob Sonntag. London: Jewish Quarterly Publications. 1967. ( World Distributors: Vallentine, Mitchell, London.) 86 pp. 15s. $3.Israel and the Developing Countries: New Approaches to Cooperation. By Leopold Laufer. Foreword by John E. Booth. New York: Twentieth Century Fund. 1967. 298 pp. Index. $6. Paperback: $2.50. S. E. Finer S. E. Finer Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 44, Issue 3, July 1968, Pages 568–569, https://doi.org/10.2307/2615086 Published: 01 July 1968

Private Case – Public Scandal by Peter Fryer, Secker & Warburg, 21s.

PRIVATE CASE‐PUBLIC SCANDAL by Peter FryerTHE BOUNDS OF SENSE: AN ESSAY ON KANT'S CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON, by P. F. StrawsonTHE LAWS IN THE PENTATEUCH AND OTHER ESSAYS by Martin MothTHE WIDE HORIZON ‘Christian Ashram’ by Bede GriffithsROME AND REFORMATION‐A stubborn problem re‐examined, by James AtkinsonTHE EPISCOPATE AND CHRISTIAN UNITY. Edit. Titus Cranny.THE CHURCH IS DIFFERENT, by Robert Adolfs, Burns OatesEARLY CHRISTIAN THOUGHT AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION. Studies in Justin, Clement and Origen. fay Henry ChadwickLA VIE JUIVE DANS L'EUROPE CONTEMPORAINE. Centre National des Hautes Etudes Juives, Bruxelles, and Institute of Contemporary Jewry of the Hebrew UniversityBUDDHISM; THE RELIGION OF ANALYSIS. By Nolan Pliny JacobsonA BENEDICTINE ASHRAM. By Abbé J. Monchanin SAMVITAL WORDS OF THE BIBLE, by J. M. Furness.CONCISE DICTIONARY OF THE BIBLE, ed. by Stephen NeillJUDAISM, by Stuart E. Rosenberg

Jewish Life in Modern Britain. Papers and Proceedings of a Conference Held at University College London on 1 st and 2 nd April 1962, by the Institute of Contemporary Jewry of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, under the Auspices of the Board of Deputies of British JewsGouldJuliusEshShaul Jewish Life in Modern Britain. Papers and Proceedings of a Conference Held at University

Jewish Life in Modern Britain. Papers and Proceedings of a Conference Held at University College London on 1 st and 2 nd April 1962, by the Institute of Contemporary Jewry of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, under the Auspices of the Board of Deputies of British JewsGouldJuliusEshShaul <i>Jewish Life in Modern Britain. Papers and Proceedings of a Conference Held at University