Jewish Identities: Fifty Intellectuals Answer Ben Gurion

Eliezer Ben-Rafael

ISBN 10: 9004125353 / ISBN 13: 9789004125353

Published by Brill Academic Pub, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Jewish Identities: Fifty Intellectuals Answer Ben Gurion
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004125353
• ISBN 13: 9789004125353
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.86 kilograms

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Synopsis

Who and what is a Jew? Is there any common denominator between an ultra-Orthodox rabbi of an Israeli North African community and a Berkeley academic of the Movement for a Secular and Humanistic Judaism? Do Jews the world over convergre and emphasize their unity or do they share contrasting concepts of collective identity? Part I of this book presents a systematic discussion of Jewish identities in this era of (post)modernity. The opportunity is offered by a set of invaluable texts, which appear in Part II. These texts about Jewish identity were invited, in 1958, by Ben-Gurion from 50 intellectuals - rabbis, writers, scientists and lawyers -, from the Diaspora and Israel, representative of the principal streams of contemporary Jewish thought.

About the Author

Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Ph.D. (1974) in Sociology, University of Jerusalem, is Weinberg Professor of Sociology and the President of the International Institute of Sociology. He has published extensively on ethnicity and language, and is the author of Identity, Culture and Globalization (Brill, 2001-2002).