Year
2019
Publisher
Academic Studies Press
Language
English
Pages
15
Last Update
01-Nov-2024
Keywords
Religion ; Jewish Studies
This book is motivated by the deep discomfort that we, the editors, feel with the way that the phrase “Jewish identity” is often used by educators, educational policy makers, and other leaders in the Jewish community, especially (although not exclusively) in the United States. To be sure, we have learned much from colleagues who have written rigorously and insightfully about the ways that Jews understand themselves, about how Jewishness is enacted in contemporary settings, and about the ways that Jewish identity coexists alongside other identities (to name a few key studies: Cohen, 1974, 1983; Cohen & Eisen, 2000; Dashefsky &...
