Dissertations / Theses: 'Jews – Identity'

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Rockoff, Stuart Allen. "Jewish racial identity in Pittsburgh and Atlanta, 1890-1930 /." Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Fried, Talia. "Blacks, Jews, and Jewish identity." Thesis, Boston University, 1996. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/32863.

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Thesis (B.A.)--Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses.
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Throughout the twentieth century in the US, Jews have been disproportionately involved in promoting the welfare of black people. Though this involvement can be largely explained by the historical progressiveness of Jews, the moral precepts of Judaism, and demographic factors pertaining to Jews, it should also be seen as a function of contemporary Jewish American assimilation issues. Many Jews who were active in the civil rights movement expressed dismay and confusion about their Jewish identity, and fulfilled their desire for a spiritually and ideologically meaningful community by fighting for the rights of another ethnic group--African Americans. Following the rift between blacks and Jews at the end of the 1960s, many Jewish civil rights activist were forced to restructure their feelings about black equality and Jewish identity. The ways in which activists did so reaffirms the thesis that pro-black activism is of emotional--not purely political-- relevance to Jews, and is deeply intertwined with issues of Jewish identity.
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Roberts, Jennifer Sinclair. "Social identity in young British Jews." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.251580.

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Hakola, Raimo. "Identity matters : John, the Jews and Jewishness /." Leiden : Brill, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39971702g.

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Rosenblum, Jordan D. ""They sit apart at meals" : early rabbinic commensality regulations and identity construction." View abstract/electronic edition; access limited to Brown University users, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3318358.

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Bruder, Edith. "The Black Jews of Africa : history, religion, identity /." Oxford : Oxford university press, 2008. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb413210103.

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Rosen, Daniel C. "The identity of American Jews : a psychological exploration /." Ann Arbor, MI : University Microfilms, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/dissertations/preview/3220334.

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Charak, Sarah Edith. "Anglo-Jews and Eastern European Jews in a White Australia." Thesis, Department of History, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/21137.

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This thesis traces the story of Australian Jewish identity from the colonial period to the end of the 1920s. Anglo-Jews aligned themselves with ‘white Australia’, arguing that their Jewishness was merely a private trait. Moments of crisis in the 1890s and 1920s, prompted by the possible and actual migration of Eastern European Jews to Australia, threatened to destabilise the place Anglo-Jews had carved out in Australian society, and forced a renegotiation of what it meant to be Jewish in Australia. These moments demonstrate that despite being notionally accepted in Australia, the whiteness of Jews was never guaranteed. Drawing on newspapers and government records, this thesis argues that since their arrival in Australia, Jews have been ambivalently and ambiguously placed in relation to Australian constructions of whiteness. As a group notoriously hard to define, Jews are an important case study in an analysis of the discursive world of ‘white Australia’, presenting new questions that challenge existing binaries of ‘white’ and ‘coloured’.

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Roytman, Grigory. "In search of identity : Soviet Jewish immigrant families in the United States /." Access Digital Full Text version, 1985. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/1060019x.

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Thesis (Ed. D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1985.
Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: A. Harry Passow. Dissertation Committee: Samuel D. Johnson, Jr. Bibliography: leaves 132-136.

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Frankental, Sally. "Constructing identity in diaspora : Jewish Israeli migrants in Cape Town, South Africa." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20449.

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Bibliography: p. 230-244.
This study was conducted through systematic participant-observation from July 1994 to December 1996. Basic socio-demographic data were recorded and revealed considerable ·heterogeneity within the population. Formal and informal interviews, three focus group interviews and (selected) informants' diaries provided additional material. The study examines the construction of identity in diaspora and explores the relationships of individuals to places, groups and nation-states. Jews are shown to be the most salient local social category and language, cultural style and a sense of transience are shown to be the most significant boundary markers. The migrants' sharpest differentiation from local Jews is manifested in attitudes towards, and practice of, religion. Whether a partner is South African or Israeli was shown to be the single most important factor influencing patterns of interaction. Most studies treat Israelis abroad as immigrants while noting their insistence on transiency. Such studies also emphasize ambivalence and discomfort. In a South Africa still deeply divided by race and class, the migrants' status as middle-class whites greatly facilitates their integration. Their strong and self-confident identification as Israeli and their ongoing connectedness to Israeli society underlines distinctiveness. The combination of engagement with the local while maintaining distinctiveness, as well as past familiarity with multicultural and multilingual reality is utilized to negotiate the present, and results in a lived reality of 'comfortable contradiction' in the present. This condition accommodates multi-locality, multiple identifications and allegiances, and a simultaneous sense of both permanence and transience. The migrants' conflation of ethnic-religious and 'national' dimensions of identification (Jewishness and Israeliness), born in a particular societal context, leads, paradoxically, to distinguishing between membership of a nation and citizenship of a state. This distinction, it is argued, together with the migrants' middle-class status, further facilitates the comfortable contradiction of their transmigrant position. It is argued that while their instrumental engagement with diaspora and their understanding of responsible citizenship resembles past patterns of Jewish migration and adaptation, the absence of specifically Israeli (ethnic) communal structures suggests a departure from past patterns. The migrants' confidence in a sovereign independent nation-state and in their own identity, removes the sense of vulnerability that permeates most diaspora Jewish communities. These processes enable the migrants to live as 'normalized' Jews in a post-Zionist, post-modern, globalized world characterized by increasing electronic connectedness, mobility and hybridity. The ways in which the migrants in this study have negotiated and defined their place in the world suggests that a strong national identity is compatible with a cosmopolitan orientation to multicultural reality.

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Wright, Katherine Ann. "The literature of second generation Holocaust survivors and the formation of a post-Holocaust Jewish identity in America." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2009. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Summer2009/K_Wright_062109.pdf.

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Chappel, James. "Dignity is everything Isaiah Berlin and his Jewish identity /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/672.

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Kakhnovets, Regina. "An investigation of Jewish ethnic identity and identification and their psychological correlates for American Jews." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1145141485.

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Fleming, Michael. "National minorities in post-Communist Poland : constructing identity." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.391058.

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Schnoor, Randal F. "Finding one's place : ethnic identity construction among gay Jewish men." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=19705.

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While sociological studies of 'Jewish identity' have proliferated over the last several decades, these works often ignore the internal diversity found within Jewish populations. Because of the particularities of the gay Jewish case, there is a need to devote more scholarly attention to the 'Jewish identities' of this subpopulation. This study contributes to this under-studied area. Using qualitative methods (in-depth interviews and participant observation), this study explores the processes of Jewish identity construction among gay Jewish men. Despite the fact that Jews have historically held more liberal attitudes on social issues than non-Jews, the study found that Jewish families and communities often demonstrate a resistance to homosexuality and Jewish same-sex relationships. While most North American Jews, whether heterosexual or gay, partake in some form of negotiation between their Jewish identity and the non-Jewish world around them, because of the perceived stigmatization felt by gay Jewish men within the Jewish community, this group has added obstacles to overcome in constructing a personally meaningful Jewish identity. Due to the emphasis on 'traditional' gender roles, the 'nuclear family,' procreation and conservative religious values, the gay Jewish experience bears many similarities to the experiences of gay men in Black, Latin American, Asian, Greek and Italian communities. There are some distinctive features to the Jewish case, however. These include a particular aversion to same-sex relations due to the Jewish preoccupation with ethnic survival and continuity, especially in light of the Holocaust, and increased difficulty for the gay Jewish man to maintain privacy about his sexual orientation due to high levels of friendship and social networks within the Jewish community. Building upon theoretical models that attempt to acknowledge the complexities of multiple layers of stigmatized identities, the study develops a more nuanced analytical framework in which to understand the various strategies ethnic minority gay men implement as a means of negotiating their ethnoreligious and gay identities. The study illustrates, for example, that the variable of 'level of religiosity' serves as a key factor in this process. The study concludes with reflections on the implications of the findings for Jewish communities and recommends similar studies of other ethno-religious communities.

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Minnick, Susan L. "A shanda fur de Yehudim : Jewishness in network sitcom television /." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/1422462.

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Sandwell, Isabella. "Religious identity in late antiquity : Greeks, Jews and Christians in Antioch /." Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0713/2007011164.html.

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Univ. College, Diss.--London, 2001.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 282 - 307) and index. Understanding religious identity in fourth century Antioch -- Imperial society, religion and literary culture in fourth century Antioch -- Constructed and strategic religious identities and allegiances -- Chrysostom and the construction of religious identities -- Libanius and the strategic use of religious allegiance -- Religious identities and other forms of social identification -- Religious identity and other social identities in Chrysostom -- Religious allegiance and other social identities in Libanius -- Religious identities and social organization -- Chrysostom and social structure among Christians in Antioch -- Libanius, religious allegiance, and social structure -- Assessing the impact of constructions of identity -- Religious identity, religious practice and personal religious power -- Conclusion.

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Herman, Marilyn. "Songs, honour and identity : the Bet Israel (Ethiopian Jews) in Israel." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.386510.

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Bell, Lawrence D. "The Jews and Peron : communal politics and national identity in Peronist Argentina, 1946-1955 /." Columbus, OH : Ohio State University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1039034580.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2002.
Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains ix, 332 p. Includes abstract and vita. Advisor: Kenneth J. Andrien, Dept. of History. Includes bibliographical references (p. 310-332).

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Clark, Michael. "Identity and equality : the Anglo-Jewish community in the post-emancipation era 1858-1887." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2006. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:75c397e5-552a-4308-817a-b7328bcf004e.

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This thesis examines the Anglo-Jewish community in the three decades following its so-called emancipation as legally equal citizens. Beginning with Lionel de Rothschild's entry into Parliament in 1858 and concluding with the Anglo-Jewish Exhibition's encomium to Jewish life of 1887, this era witnessed the reconceptualisation of Anglo-Jewish identity as the minority completely entered British society after centuries of marginalisation. This thesis focuses upon three interlinked case-studies of different strands of Jewish leadership as they experienced their new identity and numerous practical issues regarding everyday interaction: the first Jewish MPs; the representative Board of Deputies of British Jews; and the community's religious infrastructure. Through analysis and comparison of these elite groups this work explores questions of inter-faith and inter-ethnic dialogue, minority-majority relationships, acculturation, and subculture formation in late nineteenth-century Britain. It argues that Anglo-Jewry's emancipation was ambiguous; British acceptance was not neutral but carried reciprocal expectations. The community thus felt the dichotomy of Diasporic Jewish existence - being particularist in a universalist society - acutely in these years. Moving in tandem with British society forced many concessions from Jews' sectarian identity, the form and extent of which remained indeterminate as a result. The expected acculturation was forthcoming and the community fashioned itself a distinctive British variant of Jewish existence. However, this thesis contends that this was not always a forced or unpleasant experience. Many Jews willingly embraced aspects of British identity they appreciated. There were also numerous instances of the community being able to preserve its exceptionality. The British state and wider society showed a remarkable willingness to accommodate cases of Jewish particularity. This thesis demonstrates the tolerant nature of Britain's civil society (and indicates some of the boundaries to this), whilst also revealing the remarkable level of confluence between Anglo-Jewish and British ideals at this time. Fundamentally, it suggests, with some reservations, that Anglo-Jewry be viewed as an example of successful integration.

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Phillips, Jason Paul. "Judaism, memory and identity : the Jews of North Staffordshire 1923-2004 C.E." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.435620.

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England, Susan Patricia. "Three English Jews : identity, modernity and the experience of war 1890-1950." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.246844.

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Silverman, Gila S. "Complexities and Contradictions: Prayer, Healing, Belief, and Identity among Liberal American Jews." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/594511.

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In recent years, the Jewish prayer for healing, the Mi Sheberach (literally, "the one who blessed"), has become a central element of North American liberal (non-Orthodox) religious and ritual life. The growing centrality of these prayers comes at a time when American Judaism has shifted away from congregational and communal life to a more personalized approach to Jewish beliefs, practices and identities; participation in both ritual and prayer practices is now based in personal choice and the desire for an individually-meaningful experience, as well as communal obligation or belief in God. This dissertation seeks to understand the meanings and impacts of these Jewish prayers for healing, by using ethnography as a tool for understanding the lived experience of religious practices, beliefs, and identities. Based in two years of ethnographic field-work in Southern Arizona, it places the relationship between Judaism and healing within the larger social, communal and historical contexts in which both of these concepts acquire meaning. I describe the complexities and contradictions inherent in modern liberal American Jewishness, demonstrating that these modern Jewish American selves are multiply-situated, multi-voiced, and characterized by diversity and dissonance. My research shows that, among liberal American Jews, the individual's search for meaning blends with the collectivist nature of Judaism, in an ongoing process of interpretive interaction between text, tradition, personal experience, and other members of the community. I find that Jewish representations of God are also complex and contradictory. Many people have difficulty articulating their thoughts about God, and their views are dynamic and inconsistent. Furthermore, Jewish belief develops in a multifaceted relationship to Jewish ritual and communal practice. Within this context, healing prayer becomes become one site, among many, through which relationships to Jewish traditions, practices and communities are negotiated and constructed. Healing prayer leads to a feeling of connection to community, ancestors and traditions; it transforms fear and anxiety into comfort, strength and acceptance; promotes spiritual transcendence; and provides a sense of agency and control at times of vulnerability and helplessness. Healing in a liberal Jewish context may involve the physical body, but it more often involves emotions, spirit, relationships to other people, and relationships to Judaism. Prayer may refer to a dialogue with the divine, but it is also a dialogue between the individual and the community, and between Jewish history and modernity. Finally, this dissertation contributes to discussions of religion and secularism, demonstrating that these analytical categories, which emerged out of European Protestantism, are neither sufficient, nor appropriate, for the study of modern Jewish life.

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Lauer, Rena. "Venice's Colonial Jews: Community, Identity, and Justice in Late Medieval Venetian Crete." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11520.

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This dissertation offers a social history of the Jews of Candia, Venetian Crete's capital, by investigating how these Jews related to their colonial sovereign, their Latin and Greek Christian neighbors, and their diverse co-religionists in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Latin ducal court records, Hebrew communal ordinances, and notarial materials reveal the unique circumstances of Venetian colonial rule on Crete, including the formalized social hierarchy dividing Latin and Greek Christians, ready access to the Venetian justice system, and Venetian accommodation of pre-colonial legal precedents. Together, these elements enabled and encouraged Jews--individuals and community alike--to invest deeply in the institutions of colonial society. Their investment fostered sustained, meaningful interactions with the Latin and Greeks populations. It even shaped the ways in which Jews engaged with one another, particularly as they brought their quotidian and intracommunal disputes before Venice's secular judiciaries. Though contemporary religious authorities frowned upon litigating against co-religionists in secular courts, people from across the spectrum of Candiote Jewry, from community leaders to unhappily married women, sought Venetian judicial intervention at times.
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Feuer, Rose. "Jesus made me kosher Jews for Jesus and the defining of a religious identity /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/766.

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Gourgey, Hannah Susan. "Symbloic matters : rhetoric, marginality and the pathos of identity /." Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3004414.

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Brodsky, Adriana Mariel. "The contours of identity : Sephardic Jews and the construction of Jewish communities in Argentina, 1880 to the present /." Ann Arbor, MI : University Microfilms, 2004. http://proquest.umi.com/dissertations/preview/3177861.

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Sosland, Elizabeth A. "Born of our fathers : patrilineal descent, Jewish identity, and the development of self : a project based upon an independent investigation /." View online, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10090/5927.

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Tsang, Wing-yi, and 曾穎怡. "Jewish imagery and orientalism in nineteenth and early twentieth century European art." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B40040355.

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Pieren, Kathrin. "Migration and identity constructions in the metropolis : the representation of Jewish heritage in London between 1887 and 1956." Thesis, University of London, 2011. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.695865.

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Martin, Sean. "Building our own home : the ethnic identity of the Jews of Krakow, 1918-1939 /." The Ohio State University, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1488202171197371.

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Grobgeld, David. "Resisting Assimilation: Ethnic Boundary Maintenance Among Jews in Sweden." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-150267.

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This paper applies the ethnic boundary making theory developed by Andreas Wimmer to understand the maintenance of Jewish ethnic identification in Sweden, as expressed in thirteen interviews with Swedish Jews. Wimmer’s theory holds that ethnic conflict and persecution routinizes and entrenches perceptions of ethnic difference; I argue that the antisemitic persecutions of the 20th century has entrenched the perception of the ethnic distinctiveness of Jews among Jews themselves. These persecutions also contribute to alienation from Swedish society, which does not share the same historical identity and frames of understanding. These factors in turn motivate the participants to maintain the ethnic boundary between Swedes and Jews and guard it against assimilation. Ethnic consciousness also motivates Jews to endow the category of “Jewish” with cultural content, sometimes having previously lacked knowledge of Jewish culture; the cultural distinctiveness of Jews is thus shown to partly be a result of the ethnic boundary between Jews and others, and not just an explanation for that boundary. However; the participants are generally not prepared to restrict the choice of romantic bonds to fellow Jews; since social closure is required to maintain ethnic boundaries (as stressed by Wimmer), this puts the participants in a contradictory situation.

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Kegel, Terry. "Effect of the Zionist youth movement on South African Jewry negotiating a South African, Jewish, and Zionist identity in the mid-20th century /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/670.

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Shragg, Lior D. "Belonging: The Music and Lives of Black Zimbabwean Jews." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1585649059631573.

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Fuhr, Christina. "Jewish identity construction and perpetuation in contemporary Britain." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3f96cb8b-ad6a-4797-849f-edb9f5a4ce02.

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This thesis attends to the major question ‘how is Jewish identity created and maintained in contemporary Britain?’ To answer this question, I have done one year of ethnographic fieldwork in Britain, which included 121 interviews with Jewish people of various ages and across different religious as well as non-religious denominations. This thesis identifies four major elements informing the creation and perpetuation of Jewish identity: One, a sense of difference from the majority population creates and maintains the identity. Jews can perceive themselves to be different religiously, nationally, ethnically and/or culturally from white Christian British people. Two, trauma memory has an impact on the creation and sustenance of this identity. Vicarious group trauma, meaning trauma experienced by proxy of previous generations, can inform identity through its influence on everyday experiences. Three, community affiliation plays a role in creating and particularly reinforcing the identification. The Jewish community provides resources, social interaction and thus signalled attention, and regard; all of them respond to innate human needs that a person aims to have satisfied. Four, a group norm of continuity is important in the perpetuation of this identity within and across generations. This norm is created and sustained by its members through their focus on endogamy. Wanting to have a partner from one’s own group, have Jewish children and raise them in a Jewish lifestyle can, thereby, reinforce and maintain a sense of Jewishness (inter-) generationally. Without members marrying within the faith and having children that are raised with Judaism, it would be difficult to preserve Jewish identity in a country where the group does not constitute the majority. The thesis concludes that there are two reasons why Jews in diaspora have been able to sustain as a group and maintain their identity over time. Firstly, the multi-dimensionality of the Jewish group and respective affiliation platforms have allowed its members to create a multi-faceted meaning of being Jewish, and, secondly, continuous external challenges to the group’s security together with constant reminders of those challenges; both have prevented the group from assimilating into mainstream society.

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Macelaru, Marcel Valentin. "From divine speech to national/ethnic self-definition in the Hebrew Bible : representation(s) of identity and the motif of divine-human distancing in Israel's story." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670054.

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Moscowitz, David. "Nice Jewish boys : trope, identity, and politics in the rhetorical representation of contemporary tough Jews /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3162253.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2004.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-01, Section: A, page: 0031. Adviser: Robert L. Ivie. Title from dissertation home page (viewed Oct. 12, 2006).

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Peterson, Sandra Rubinstein. ""One heart, many souls" the National Council of Jewish Women and identity formation in St. Louis, 1919-1950 /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5567.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008.
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on July 28, 2009) Includes bibliographical references.

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Dee, David Gareth. "Jews and British Sport : integration, ethnicity and anti-semitism, c1880-c1960." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/4833.

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Between the 1890s and the 1960s, sport had a distinctive and varied impact on the social, cultural, political and economic life of the British Jewish community. During this period, Anglo-Jewry developed a clear sporting tradition, in both a direct and indirect sense, and their participation in the world of British sport had a significant impact on processes and discourses surrounding integration, ethnicity and anti-Semitism. Through a broad analysis of archival materials, newspaper sources and oral history, this thesis seeks to examine the influence that sport exerted on the Jewish community – paying particular attention to the ways in which physical recreation affected the internal dynamics of the community and influenced Jewish relations and interactions with the wider non-Jewish population. As will be shown, whilst sport is a useful lens through which to view socio-cultural development within Anglo-Jewish history, evidence suggests that physical recreation also had a notable and noticeable direct impact on Jewish life within Britain. Although Jewish sport history is an expanding field in an international context, it has been largely ignored within British academic research. Within the historiography of Anglo-Jewry, little attention has been paid to the socio-cultural impact of sporting participation. Similarly, within research concerning British sport history, race and immigration are themes that have been generally overlooked. As well as redressing important historiographical gaps, this thesis will also help expand our knowledge of the process behind minority integration and will further demonstrate the wider social importance, and the extensive and varied applications, of the historical study of sport. This thesis demonstrates that sport has been a key area for the creation, maintenance and erosion of Anglo-Jewish identity and has been an arena for the development, reinforcement and undermining of Jewish stereotypes. Sport, effectively, assumed a central role in Jewish life throughout this time period and was a pivotal factor in many social, cultural and political changes affecting the Jewish community of Britain.

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Reichman, Alice I. "Community in Exile: German Jewish Identity Development in Wartime Shanghai, 1938-1945." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2011. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/96.

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Between 1938 and 1940 approximately 18,000 Jews from Central Europe went to the Chinese city of Shanghai to escape Nazi persecution. While almost every nation in the world refused to accept these desperate refugees, thousands found refuge in Japanese occupied Shanghai, which was an open port and one could immigrate there with no visa or passport. In an incredibly short period of time the refugees were able to develop a vibrant Jewish community. Relying primarily on the testimony of former refugees, this thesis seeks to address three main questions: What did exile in Shanghai feel like for the refugees? How did they handle and react to the circumstances of their new surroundings? In what ways did their common exile unite the group and bring about changes in personal identity?

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Stein, Darren M. "Psychological sense of community in Jewish adolescents of Perth, Western Australia." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2000. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1369.

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This paper explores Psychological Sense of Community (PSC) in the Jewish adolescent population of Perth. The main aim was to investigate the differences between student attending the private Jewish School (Carmel) or another school within the metropolitan area. Participants were recruited from Carmel School, W A Maccabi (Jewish sport club) and by using a snowball sampling technique. The total sample included 167 students (60 males and 107 females) in years 10, II and 12. Participants' PSC was assessed by the modified Sense of Community Index (SCI). Results showed significantly higher PSC in Carmel students (ᵽ< .05), males (ᵽ< .01) and Somewhat observant individuals (ᵽ< .0 I). No relationship was found between PSC and whether one lived in the central Jewish suburbs. The relationship between PSC and length of time lived in the community was not a positive, linear one as expected. Results that were contrary to those in the literature may be effected by the community's traditional gender stereotypes and high numbers of migrants. Limitations of the study and implications for future research are discussed.

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Swarts, Lynne Michelle Art History &amp Art Education College of Fine Arts UNSW. "Resistance, Regeneration and the Figuring of the 'New Jew': Ephraim Moses Lilien and 'Muscular Jewry'." Publisher:University of New South Wales. Art History & Art Education, 2007. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/44089.

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This thesis embraces a cross-disciplinary approach to the examination of Jewish body culture, and integrates aspects of Jewish studies with new theories of gender and visual culture, thus contributing specifically to the field of Jewish body culture in relation to the visual arts. It demonstrates that at the fin de si??cle the Zionist artist, Ephraim Moses Lilien, integrated Nordau's concept of 'Muscular Jewry' and Buber's notion of a 'Jewish Cultural Renaissance' in order to figure the 'New Jew'. It establishes that Lilien's figuring of 'Muscular Jewry' as a visibly athletic, explicitly heterosexual, male body, bearing Jewish distinction, was developed as a crucial strategy to overcoming the twin dilemmas of Jewish alterity: antisemitism and assimilation. By proving that Lilien's art serves as a crucial model for both regenerating the Jewish male body and resisting antisemitic projections of decadence and degeneracy, this thesis expands upon current scholarship. It applies Margaret Olin's theory of ' visual redemption' to Lilien's figuring of the 'New Jew' and Daniel Boyarin's articulation of Homi Bhaba's Post-Colonial theory of mimicry as imitation, inversion and resistance to determine how Lilien's images functioned as an art of resistance against the dominant Christian European culture. By demonstrating how Lilien drew upon the modern and rebellious Jugendstil to figure the 'New Jew' and produce a new, defiant and authentic Jewish visual culture, this thesis proves he transformed the image of the diaspora Jew into the New Hebrew or Israeli tsabar, forty years before it became part of Israeli identity. Nevertheless, this thesis also uncovers the double-binded predicament inherent to Lilien's quest; despite his attempt to use mimicry of the athleticised, hyper-masculine, genetically pure, normative body as a strategy to resist antisemitic rhetoric and invert its projection, the closest parallel to Lilien's figure of 'Muscular Jewry' remained this same image which became instrumental to eugenic campaigns across Europe, particularly in Nazi Germany. Ultimately what is exposed by this thesis is the illusion underpinning Lilien's figuring of the 'New Jew'; that the Christianised Eurocentric body culture, designed to eradicate decadence, degeneration and Semitism, could resolve the problematic struggle for a Jewish national identity.

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Reis, Diana Cohen. "The immigration of Jews from France to Montreal: An investigation of the changes in a complex Jewish identity." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/27626.

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This thesis is an exploratory examination of Jewish identity among recent Jewish immigrants from France in Montreal Quebec. It examines the relationship and the role that Jewish identity has played in the immigration of these Jews from France to Montreal and their integration. It also examines other factors, which may have led these Jews to immigrate to Montreal. In order to investigate and analyze their Jewish identity, various theories of identity and other components of "Jewishness 1" are presented in this analysis. It was hypothesized that Jewish identity was one of the factors that led these Jews to leave France. In the analysis of the interviews with these participants, it was considered that not only had their Jewish identity or "Jewishness" led them to immigrate, but also that threats to their "Jewishness" and loved ones were among the main reasons why they immigrated from France to Montreal. All the participants' Jewish identities had also strengthened as a result of the immigration process: they now considered themselves to be "even more Jewish" than before their immigration. This analysis allowed me to conclude that Jewish identity did indeed play a role in the immigration of these Jewish immigrants from France, and that, as a result of their immigration, this identity was reinforced and strengthened within the Montreal Jewish community. I decided to devote my life to telling the story of the Jews because I felt that having survived. I owe something to the dead and anyone who does not remember betrays them again. (Elie Wiesel, 1980). I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people have such an obsession with memory. (Elie Wiesel, 1980) 1"Jewishness" refers to specific qualities or characteristics of being Jewish.

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Bárány, Kihlgren Robert. ""Sweden is our destiny, Jewishness is our destiny." Swedish Jews and their idenity in relation to Sweden, Israel and Jewishness in general, 1948- 1988." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Historiska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-445349.

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This thesis on Swedish-Jewish identity studies shows that this identity has been constructed between three points that can be found in Lars Dencik’s model “the diasporas star of David”, these points being “the Swedish” “the Jewish” and “the Israeli”. The thesis studies the period between 1948 to 1988 and uses Judisk Krönika as source material. The thesis looks at two keywords of importance to the Swedish Jews, the first being the summer camp “Glämsta” and the second being “religious freedom”. The usage of Albert O. Hirschmann and his theory of people in exile is used to try and se how the Swedish-Jewish group react to when questioned or when they have the need to explain their rights for maintaining a Jewish identity. The Swedish-Jewish identity was constructed and based explicitly on “the Jewish” and the “Israeli” with a small tendency to favor “the Jewish”. “The Swedish” aspect was not mentioned but can be seen as implicit because of the fact that the Jews live in Sweden. The main issue was not internal conflict within the Jewish group but rather with the Swedish majority. The results suggest that the Swedish-Jewish group based their identity on a mixture of all of the parts, just at different times. The Swedish-Jewish group changed their reasoning behind motiving their identity over time, firstly they tried to argue that there are no need to react towards Jewish traditions but later during the period they started to protest more when questioned or denied their Jewish traditions.

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Hirschberg, Jack Jacob. "Secular and Parochial education of Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jewish children in Montreal : a study in ethnicity." Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=75920.

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The objective of this study was to determine whether formal, primary education could increase the level of ethnicity in children. One hundred Jewish children completing grade 6, and their parents, were measured on a series of instruments designed to evaluate their level of ethnic identity. Half the children had received their full education in private, parochial schools, while the other half had attended public, secular schools. The two samples were further sub-divided so that each sample consisted of 25 children of Ashkenazi descent and 25 of Sephardi descent. The data were subjected to a multivariate analysis of covariance wherein the variance attributable to the parents was partialled out. The results indicated that formal, parochial education does not effect an increase in the level of ethnicity, and that parental and community factors are the primary determinants of a child's ethnic identity. The results also demonstrate that the Sephardi children, despite their affinity to the Jewish people, have a less positive image of the Jewish community when compared to the Ashkenazi majority. The Conflict Theory model, which views the school as a mirror of the forces in society at large, was seen as the best explanation of the data.

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Moulin, Daniel Peter James. "Negotiating and constructing religious identities in English secondary schools : a study of the reported experiences of adolescent Christians, Jews, and Muslims." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:86754e88-bd64-4469-aee3-91a1a7c154d9.

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The increasing diversity of societies is one of the most important educational issues of the globalised era. However, while some attention has been paid to the schooling experiences of racial, ethnic and immigrant minorities in Western societies, little research has been conducted with religious adolescents. This thesis explores the complexities of religious adolescents’ experiences of English secondary schools. As an exploratory study, I employed an emergent research design carrying out loosely-structured, group and single interviews at eleven places of worship to investigate the schooling experiences of 99 adolescent Christians, Jews and Muslims. In order to interpret their reported experiences, I applied a theoretical model based on the Students’ Multiple World Framework in conjunction with concepts of religious identity negotiation and construction. The interview data show how Christians, Jews and Muslims negotiate their religious identities in the context of the numerous challenges presented by secondary schools in a religiously plural and largely secular society. In classroom worlds participants perceived their religious traditions to be distorted, inaccurately or unfairly represented. In peer worlds participants reported that they could experience prejudice, and criticism of their beliefs. Christians, Jews and Muslims reported two principal management strategies in the face of these challenges, either: declaring their religious identity openly, or by masking it in public. The findings of this study are highly relevant to debates about the role of religion in education, including those concerning faith and Church schools and the nature and purpose of the curriculum subject Religious Education.

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Abosch, Sara. ""We are not only English Jews - we are Jewish Englishmen" : the making of an Anglo-Jewish identity, 1840-1880 /." Ann Arbor, Mich., : University Microfilms, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/preview/3125685.

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Beegle, Melissa. "Rafael Seligmann and the German-Jewish Negative Symbiosis in Post-Shoah Germany: Breaking the Silence." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1181192526.

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Kauffman, Karen C. "Re-Inventing German Collective Memory: The Debate over the Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe." Thesis, Boston College, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/557.

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Thesis advisor: Peter H. Weiler
Coming to terms with memory of the Nazi past has been a long and challenging task for the German nation. An important part of this process was the debate over building a national Holocaust memorial in Berlin, called the Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe. The debate began in 1989 and has arguably not yet ended. Occurring primarily in periodicals, political speeches and official colloquiums, the Denkmalstreit (memorial debate) was largely about German intellectuals developing a system of dealing with the Holocaust while redefining German identity in their own eyes and those of the world. The famous Historikerstreit (historians debate) of the 1980s raised the issues of the burden of shame and guilt on modern Germans, concern over forgetting the Holocaust, the uniqueness of the Holocaust and Jewish persecution, and the need to develop a new national identity. The Denkmalstreit dealt with these issues through the questions of whether to build a memorial and what it would mean, whether the memorial would be for descendents of perpetrators or victims, and what form the memorial should take. After closely examining these issues and the consensus the German intellectuals, politicians and artists reached in order to finally dedicate the memorial in 2005, I argue that Germany has done an exemplary job of coming to terms with the crimes of its past
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2008
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: History
Discipline: College Honors Program
Discipline: History Honors Program

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Oliveira, Leopoldo Osório Carvalho de. "A trajetória sefardita em O Sr. Máni, de A. B. Yehoshua - considerações sobre a identidade judaico-israelense." Universidade de São Paulo, 2001. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8152/tde-30042002-150531/.

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O presente trabalho tem como objetivo principal examinar como se dá a recriação ficcional da trajetória sefardita na modernidade, através do âmbito do Mar Mediterrâneo e de Israel, no romance O Sr. Máni, de A. B. Yehoshua. Para tanto, foi dividido em cinco capítulos: I: apresenta alguns dados biográficos de A. B. Yehoshua, examina as relações do romance O Sr. Máni com o restante de sua obra e biografia, analisa suas inovações formais e temáticas, descreve sua fortuna crítica. II: examina os principais elementos da narrativa do romance estudado, subordinados a uma concepção de historiografia crítica, aquela que em grande medida foge da tradição historiográfica da descrição e análise de grandes fatos para centrar a atenção em como os mesmos influem na vida do indivíduo. III e IV: analisam a primeira e a quarta conversas do romance, com algumas referências à terceira, buscando estabelecer qual o papel desempenhado pela ideologia sionista na formação da identidade judaico-israelense; tendo como momentos privilegiados seu declínio e sua origem. Trata da natureza específica da crise identitária sabra e das relações inter-étnicas no seio dessa sociedade, que possivelmente estariam, a par do declínio da ideologia política, na raiz desta mesma crise. V: estuda a segunda conversa do romance, pontuada de referências à quinta, buscando estabelecer qual a visão que se pode extrair do romance sobre as influência do Holocausto e do judaísmo na construção de uma identidade étnica em Israel. Os pressupostos teóricos que dão suporte a esta análise são, basicamente, a visão nazista sobre os judeus e a reação destes a tal visão e as relações entre os judeus e outras etnias no período do Velho Ishuv. CONCLUSÃO: trata alegoricamente os temas do suicídio, da orfandade, da bastardia e outros recorrentes no romance, no sentido de que podem refletir posicionamentos do autor sobre o devenir histórico e a estrutura da atual sociedade israelense e de sua crise de identidade.
This work has the major purpose of investigating how the fictional recriation of the sephardic trajectory in modernity along the region of the Mediterranean Sea and Israel, in the novel Mr Mani, by A. B. Yehoshua, takes place. To do so, it has been divided into five chapters: Chapter I presents some A. B. Yehoshuas biographic data, examines the relations of the novel Mr. Mani to the authors previous literary work and his biography, analyzes its formal and thematic innovations, describes its critical reviews. Chapter II examines the structural narrative major components of the romance surveyed, under a critical historiography conception, one which, to a great extent, deviates from the historiographic tradition of describing and analyzing history great moments in order to focus attention on the ways they influence individuals life. Chapters III and IV analyze the first and the fourth chapters of the novel, together with some references to the third one, attempting to establish the role played by Zionist ideology in creating a Jewish-Israeli identity; with its decline and origin as the most representative moments. It deals with the specific nature of Israeli identitarian crisis and the inter-ethnic relations in the midst of this society, which could possibly be, together with the decline of the political ideology, in the roots of this crisis . Chapter V studies the second chapter of the novel, together with some references to the fifth one, trying to determine which point of view one could possibly infer from the novel about Holocaust and Judaism influences in the creation of an ethnic identity in Israel. The theory that supports these analyses are, basically, the nazi view about Jews and the reactions of the formers to such view and the relations between Jews and other ethnic groups in Old Ishuv period. CONCLUSION treats allegorically some themes, such as suicide, bastardy, orphanhood and others, as they may reflect the authors stands about the historical trajectory and the social structure of Israeli society and its identity crisis.

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