By Professor of Sociology Eliezer Ben-Rafael
Who and what's a Jew? Is there any universal denominator among an ultra-Orthodox rabbi of an Israeli North African neighborhood and a Berkeley educational of the circulate for an earthly and Humanistic Judaism? Do Jews across the world convergre and emphasize their harmony or do they percentage contrasting thoughts of collective id? half I of this publication provides a scientific dialogue of Jewish identities during this period of (post)modernity. the chance is accessible by way of a suite of priceless texts, which seem partly II. those texts approximately Jewish identification have been invited, in 1958, by means of Ben-Gurion from 50 intellectuals - rabbis, writers, scientists and legal professionals -, from the Diaspora and Israel, consultant of the vital streams of up to date Jewish notion. This publication can also be to be had in paperback.
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These attitudes had an impact even beyond the framework of the Bund. The historian Simon Dubnow, for example, drew his inspiration for a program of cultural autonomy from the ideas propounded by the Bund. Yet despite its strength at the turn of the 20th century, the Bund and its activists fell victim to the Russian revolution. The virtual disappearance of the movement from the face of Jewish life was further hastened by the mass Jewish immigration to the West, the tragedy of the Holocaust, and the establishment of the State of Israel.
Yet despite its strength at the turn of the 20th century, the Bund and its activists fell victim to the Russian revolution. The virtual disappearance of the movement from the face of Jewish life was further hastened by the mass Jewish immigration to the West, the tragedy of the Holocaust, and the establishment of the State of Israel. The Space of Identities To sum up, in the wake of the dramatic changes in traditional Jewish society from the late 18th century to the last decades of the 19th, attempts to define Jewish identity became a series of questions to which a wide variety of answers were offered.
1) “the Jewish People” is viewed by the Orthodox as solely a religious community; by the Reform and Conservative Movements as an ethnocultural, moral, and religious community; by the Enlightenment as a cultural group; by the Bund as an ethnic group; and by Zionism as a national collective. (2) “the God and Torah of Israel” is interpreted literally by the Orthodox; is seen as a culture as well as a religion by the Conservatives, who pick and choose those laws which apply to its members; is given secular-cultural meaning by the Enlightenment; national meaning by Zionism; and ethnocultural meaning by the Bund; and is viewed as a set of symbols with primarily universal significance by the Reform Movement.