Keeping Kosher: Eating and Social Identity among the Jews of Denmark

Buckser, Andrew

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“…In this section I explore how Jewish consumers in Denmark understand and practise kosher consumption in their everyday lives. Dietary practices provide a common symbolic system through which the increasingly heterogeneous notions of Jewish identity in Denmark can be expressed and one way to reinforce one's Jewish identity is by keeping kosher (Buckser 1999). Similar studies exist for Canada (Diamond 2002) and Brazil (Klein 2012) and it is this literature that this study feeds into.…”

Section: Keeping Kosher or Not Keeping Kosher?mentioning

confidence: 64%

“…Rabbi Yitzi and Rochel Loewenthal are Chabad emissaries in Copenhagen. Chabad arranges Torah study sessions as well as Kabbalah and kosher cooking classes and Yitzi expounds the importance of a particular consciousness of one's connection with the divine (Buckser 2003;2005).…”

Section: Kosher In Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Very little is written about keeping kosher in Denmark and there are virtually no academic sources on the significant transformation of the kosher market within the last couple of decades or so. The standard work on modern Judaism and kosher in Denmark is Andrew Buckser's After the Rescue: Jewish Identity and Community in Denmark (2003;see also Buckser 1999;2005). The Jewish community of Denmark is characterised by institutional integrity as the community has a long history of integration in the country and the synagogue in central Copenhagen is a natural gathering point.…”

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“…The Jewish community of Denmark is characterised by institutional integrity as the community has a long history of integration in the country and the synagogue in central Copenhagen is a natural gathering point. However, fragmentation among its members is also visible, that is, disagreement about boundaries of the community, ritual practice and operation of Jewish institutions or kosher practice (Buckser 2003). The religious authority of rabbis in Copenhagen is now challenged by global influences (Buckser 2003: 53) and it is in this context that kosher understanding and practice should be seen.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Keeping kosher or not keeping kosher in contemporary Denmark

Fischer

2019

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The Hebrew term kosher means ‘fit’ or ‘proper’ and it traditionally signifies foods that conform to Jewish dietary law (kashrut). This article explores how kosher is understood, practised and contested in contemporary Denmark. In recent years, the rules regulating kosher consumption have been supplemented by elaborate rules concerning globalised mass production, which have had an impact on the way people handle questions of kashrut. During the same period, global markets for kosher have proliferated; this article explores the everyday kosher consumption among Jews in Denmark in the light of these transformations. Everyday kosher consumption among a minority group such as Jews in Denmark is not well understood, and I argue that globalised forms of regulation increasingly condition this type of consumption. Even though Denmark is a small and relatively secular country and Jews comprise only about 7,000 individuals, kosher production and regulation have national economic significance. Methodologically, I build on ethnographic data from contemporary Denmark, that is, participant observation and interviews.

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Section: Keeping Kosher or Not Keeping Kosher?mentioning

confidence: 64%

Section: Kosher In Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Kosher In Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Kosher In Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Fischer

2019

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“…On ethnic cuisines and foodways see Buckser 1999, Fischler 1988, Anderson 2005, Bahloul 1995 Jewishly occupies a higher spiritual plane than Kashrut. By making this connection, Mulhern has brought to the fore an interesting conundrum: that of whether eating Jewishly is more important than Kashrut, and vice versa.…”

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Habaneros and shwarma: Jewish Mexicans in Israel as a transnational community

Schuster

2015

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Food is the cultural expression of society food as a marker of class, ethnic, and religious identity. What happens when the location changes? Does food continue to play such an important role or do other cultural nodes take over? Do layers of traditions, adaptation and cultural blends emerge? This seems to be the case with third and fourth generation Mexican Jews who have moved to Israel. Not only have they brought their spiritual and cultural connections from Mexico, their birth country; they have also brought the food experiences of their great-grandparents and grandparents who were they themselves immigrants. Jewish Mexicans have transplanted their sense of community to Israel and in doing so they have also brought overlooked cultural interactions and unique food experiences. Are these simply by-products of religious and migration patterns? Or are there other elements that have affected this cultural hybridity?

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Paleopathology

Grauer¹

2018

Biological Anthropology of the Human Skeleton

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Keeping Kosher: Eating and Social Identity among the Jews of Denmark

Cited by 50 publications

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Keeping kosher or not keeping kosher in contemporary Denmark

Keeping kosher or not keeping kosher in contemporary Denmark

Habaneros and shwarma: Jewish Mexicans in Israel as a transnational community

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