The Decline of the Diaspora Jewish Nation: Boundaries, Content, and Jewish Identity

Gitelman, Zvi

doi:10.2979/jss.1998.4.2.112

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“…Citing evidence from Gallup polls, Robert Wuthnow (1988) noted that the number of adults who reported that they ''no longer adhered to the faith of their childhood '' increased from 4% in 1955 to 33% in 1985 (p. 88). A number of sociologists of Jewish life have documented shifts in denomination preference among those who identify themselves as Jews (see, e.g., Amyot and Sigelman 1996;Zenner 1985;Gitelman 1998;Charme 2000). In light of this religious mobility (much of it across denominational lines, some of it across faith lines), some sociologists of religion have argued that one of the consequences of modernity is the movement of religious identity from an ascribed characteristic to an achieved one.…”

Section: Religious Identity: From Ascription To Choicementioning

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Does Being “Included” Preclude Being “Inclusive”? Constructing a Contested Organizational Identity in a Nascent Jewish Communal Group

Cutler

2009

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The identity ''Jew'' can be religious or ethnic, or both religious and ethnic. This ethnographic case study of an emergent communal organization of young adult secular Jews explores the reconciliation of organizational issues when these two elements of identity conflict. Findings suggest that religious elements take priority over secular ones when inclusion in the broader Jewish community is a salient concern.

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Section: Religious Identity: From Ascription To Choicementioning

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Does Being “Included” Preclude Being “Inclusive”? Constructing a Contested Organizational Identity in a Nascent Jewish Communal Group

Cutler

2009

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“…As Gitelman explains the dynamic, "Israel helps make Jews 'ethnic,' a people who have a homeland they can visit and with which they can identify; a homeland that has a language, territory, an army." 17 For some of the more assimilated members of the American Jewish community, this "Israelism" became the sole or primary focus of Jewish involvement. 18 Even as attachment to Israel became the "primary basis of community mobilization" among American Jewry, it did not manifest itself to the same degree among all members of the Jewish diaspora in the United States.…”

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American Jews and Israel: The Sources of Politicized Ethnic Identity

Wald

Williams

2006

Nationalism and Ethnic Politics

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What accounts for individual differences in the level of politicized ethnic identity among members of an ethnonational diaspora? By politicized ethnic identity, we refer to the disposition to assign priority to the interests of the homeland in the politics of the host society. The question presumes that even the most thoroughly mobilized of diasporas contain members who differ among themselves in the degree to which homeland matters predominate in determining political preferences and behavior. Using a 1999 survey of American Jewry, we establish the level of variation in the political salience of Israel to members of the community, then identify and test the factors that promote or retard such commitment.

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“…22 Medically oriented mobilization sounded like a realistic goal for many educated, secularized Jews, whose religious identity became secondary to kinship, with kinship being absorbed by the scientifically sound and modern concept of race. 23 Fixation on the physical imagery of the Jewish body compensated for the perceived deficiency of the Jewish nation from the normative sociological vantage point of the time. As a well-known lawyer, Oskar Osipovich Gruzenberg, wrote in the pages of the leading Russian Jewish periodical Voskhod in 1894, "Jewry in its present state is an incomplete and abnormal nation as it is lacking a real unity-a separate territory and political self-determination."…”

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Toward a History of Russian Jewish “Medical Materialism”: Russian Jewish Physicians and the Politics of Jewish Biological Normalization

Mogilner¹

2012

Jewish Social Studies

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This article introduces a missing Russian-Jewish perspective into the discussion of Jewish involvement in modern racialized and medicalized discourses and brings together the domains of intellectual and social history that have tended to be marginalized in these discourses. I argue that different forms of modern collective Jewish identities in the Russian Empire were substantially influenced by biological categories, and this influence was reflected not only in the sphere of ideology and science but also in the patterns of Jewish national and professional self-mobilization that culminated in the creation of the all-Russian Obshchestvo Okhraneniia Zdorov'ia Evreiskogo Naseleniia (OZE). The Jewish public health movement is the story of social mobilization based on a shared ethos of "medical materialism" and a specific understanding of the Jewish nation in the Russian imperial and early Soviet contexts.

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The Decline of the Diaspora Jewish Nation: Boundaries, Content, and Jewish Identity

Cited by 11 publications

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Does Being “Included” Preclude Being “Inclusive”? Constructing a Contested Organizational Identity in a Nascent Jewish Communal Group

Does Being “Included” Preclude Being “Inclusive”? Constructing a Contested Organizational Identity in a Nascent Jewish Communal Group

American Jews and Israel: The Sources of Politicized Ethnic Identity

Toward a History of Russian Jewish “Medical Materialism”: Russian Jewish Physicians and the Politics of Jewish Biological Normalization

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