Social Scientific Study of Jewry

Sources, Approaches, Debates
Herausgeber: Rebhun, Uzi

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume of Studies in Contemporary Jewry directs its searchlight on the social scientific study of Jewry. Its symposium consists of 11 essays that discuss sources, approaches, and debates in different complementary fields of demography, sociology, economy, and geography.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780199363490
• ISBN-10: 0199363498
• Artikelnr.: 40185743

Autorenporträt

Uzi Rebhun is Associate Professor and head of the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The author of The Wandering Jew in America and co-author of American Israelis: Migration, Transnationalism, and Diasporic Identity, he specializes in the demography of world Jewry, Jewish migration, Jewish identification, and the Jewish family.

Inhaltsangabe

* Symposium
* The Social Scientific Study of Jewry: Sources, Approaches, Debates
* Jewish Demography: Fundamentals of the Research Field, Sergio
DellaPergola
* Measuring the Size and Characteristics of American Jewry: A New
Paradigm to Understand an Ancient People, Leonard Saxe, Elizabeth
Tighe, and Matthew Boxer
* U.S. Jewish Population Studies: Opportunities and Challenges, David
Dutwin, Eran Ben Porath, and Ron Miller
* Studies of Jewish Identity and Continuity: Competing, Complementary,
and Comparative Perspectives, Harriet Hartman
* Defining and Measuring the Socioeconomic Status of Jews, Esther
Isabelle Wilder
* The Professional Dilemma of Jewish Social Scientists: The Case of the
ASSJ, Chaim I. Waxman
* Contradictory Constructions of "Jewish" in Britain's Political and
Legal Systems, David J. Graham
* Sources for the Demographic Study of the Jews in the Former Soviet
Union, Mark Tolts
* Latin American Jewish Social Studies: The Evolution of a
Cross-disciplinary Field, Judit Bokser Liwerant
* Jews in Israel: Effects of Categorization Practice on Research
Findings and Research Frameworks, Aziza Khazzoom
* Jewish Majority and Jewish Minority in Israel: The Demographic
Debate, Arnon Soffer
* Essay
* Avi Picard, Funding Aliyah: American Jewry and North African Jews,
1952-1956
* Review Essays
* The Postwar Era: Repatriation, Resettlement, and Justice
* Gabriel Finder, Toward a Broader View of Jewish Rebuilding after the
Holocaust
* Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz, The Holocaust and Its Aftermath in the
Yishuv
* and the State of Israel
* Laura Jockusch, Beyond Nuremberg: New Scholarship on Nazi War Crimes
Trials
* in Germany
* Olga Litvak, The God of History
* Book Reviews
* Antisemitism, Holocaust, and Genocide
* David Bankier and Dan Michman (eds.), Holocaust and Justice:
Representation
* and Historiography of the Holocaust in Post-war Trials, Laura
Jockusch
* Shlomo Bar-Gil and Ada Schein, Viyshavtem betah: nitzolei hashoah
bahityashvut
* ha'ovedet (Dwell in safety: Holocaust survivors in the rural
cooperative
* settlement), Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz
* Yehuda Bauer, The Death of the Shtetl, Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz
* John Cramer, Belsen Trial 1945: Der Lüneburger Prozess gegen
Wachpersonal der
* Konzentrationslager Auschwitz und Bergen-Belsen, Laura Jockusch
* Margarete Myers Feinstein, Holocaust Survivors in Postwar Germany,
1945-1957,
* Gabriel N. Finder
* Jonathan C. Friedman (ed.), The Routledge History of the Holocaust,
Dan
* Michman
* Atina Grossmann, Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in
Occupied
* Germany, Gabriel N. Finder
* Patricia Heberer and Jürgen Matthäus (eds.), Atrocities on Trial:
Historical
* Perspectives on the Politics of Prosecuting War Crimes, Laura
Jockusch
* Ariel Hurwitz, Jews without Power: American Jewry during the
Holocaust, Rafael
* Medoff
* Tomaz Jardim, The Mauthausen Trial: American Military Justice in
Germany,
* Laura Jockusch
* Laura Jockusch, Collect and Record! Jewish Holocaust Documentation in
Early
* Postwar Europe, Gabriel N. Finder
* Otto Dov Kulka and Eberhard Jäckel (eds.), The Jews in the Secret
Nazi Reports
* on Popular Opinion in Germany, 1933-1945, trans. William Templer,
* Marion Kaplan
* Tamar Lewinsky, Displaced Poets: Jiddische Schriftsteller im
* Nachkriegsdeutschland, 1945-1951, Gabriel N. Finder
* Anna Lipphardt, Vilne: Die Juden aus Vilnius nach dem Holocaust. Ein
* transnationale Beziehungsgeschichte, Tobias Brinkmann
* Dalia Ofer, Françoise S. Ouzan, and Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz
(eds.),
* Holocaust Survivors: Resettlement, Memories, Identities, Gabriel N.
* Finder
* Avinoam J. Patt and Michael Berkowitz (eds.), "We Are Here": New
Approaches
* to Jewish Displaced Persons in Germany, Gabriel N. Finder
* Dina Porat, Israeli Society: The Holocaust and Its Survivors, Judith
Tydor
* Baumel-Schwartz
* Kim C. Priemel and Alexa Stiller (eds.), Reassessing the Nuremberg
Military
* Tribunals: Transitional Justice, Trial Narratives, and
Historiography,
* Laura Jockusch
* Shimon Redlich, Life in Transit: Jews in Postwar Lodz, 1945-1950,
Gabriel N.
* Finder
* Alan Rosen, The Wonder of Their Voices: The 1946 Holocaust Interviews
of David
* Broder, Gabriel N. Finder
* Cultural Studies, Literature and Thought
* Leora Batnitzky, How Judaism Became a Religion: An Introduction to
Modern
* Jewish Thought, Hanoch Ben-Pazi
* David Biale, Not in the Heavens: The Tradition of Jewish Secular
Thought, Robert
* M. Seltzer
* Leonid Livak, The Jewish Persona in the European Imagination: A Case
of Russian
* Literature, Rafi Tsirkin-Sadan
* Shachar Pinsker, Literary Passports: The Making of Modernist Hebrew
Fiction in
* Europe, Jordan Finkin
* Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus, Jeffrey Shandler
* Art Spiegelman, MetaMaus, Jeffrey Shandler
* Michael Weingrad, American Hebrew Literature: Writing Jewish National
Identity
* in the United States, Jordan Finkin
* History, Social Sciences, and Biography
* Rebecca T. Alpert, Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball, Ezra
Mendelsohn
* Gur Alroey, Bread to Eat and Clothes to Wear: Letters from Jewish
Migrants in the
* Early 20th Century, Frank Wolff
* Yaakov (Jacob) Barnai, Shmuel Ettinger: Historiyon, moreh veish
tzibur (Shmuel
* Ettinger: Historian, teacher and public figure), Olga Litvak
* Albert I. Baumgarten, Elias Bickerman as a Historian of the Jews,
Olga Litvak
* Michael Brenner, Prophets of the Past: Interpreters of Jewish
History, trans. Steven
* Rendall, Olga Litvak
* David Cesarani, Tony Kushner, and Milton Shain (eds.), Place and
* Displacement in Jewish History and Memory: Zakor V'makor, Natasha
* Gordinsky
* Jonathan Dekel-Chen, David Gaunt, Natan M. Meir, and Israel Bartal
(eds.),
* Anti-Jewish Violence: Rethinking the Pogrom in East European History,
Brian
* Horowitz
* Marion A. Kaplan and Deborah Dash Moore (eds.), Gender and Jewish
History,
* Vicki Caron
* John Doyle Klier, Russians, Jews and the Pogroms of 1881-1882, Brian
Horowitz
* Rebecca Kobrin, Jewish Bialystok and Its Diaspora, Gur Alroey
* Zionist, Israel, and the Middle East
* Shaul Kelner, Tours that Bind: Diaspora, Pilgrimage, and Israeli
Birthright
* Tourism, Jackie Feldman
* Henry Near, Where Community Happens: The Kibbutz and the Philosophy
of
* Communalism, Eliezer Ben-Rafael
* Noam Pianko, Zionism and the Roads Not Taken: Rawidowicz, Kaplan,
Cohen,
* Allan M. Arkush
* Leonard Saxe and Barry Chazan, Ten Days of Birthright Israel: A
Journey in
* Young Adult Identity, Jackie Feldman
* Matthew Silver, Our Exodus: Leon Uris and the Americanization of
Israel's
* Founding Story, Ariel Feldestein
* Gadi Taub, The Settlers and the Struggle over the Meaning of Zionism,
Michael
* Feige
* Contents for Volume XXVIII
* Note on Editorial Policy