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Jewish Identity (jewish + identity)
Selected AbstractsGender, memory and Jewish identity: reading a family history from medieval southern ItalyEARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE, Issue 3 2005Patricia Skinner This article combines recent work on memory in the early and central Middle Ages to read the Scroll of Ahimaaz, a well-known eleventh-century Jewish text from southern Italy. It suggests that previous readings of the text have been shaped by the dominant tradition of intellectual history within Jewish studies, and that Ahimaaz's work has been overlooked for the information it contains about gender and family history. It concludes that whilst the primarily Jewish identity of Ahimaaz and his family is reinforced by the text, they were at the same time as much a product of the southern Italian environment in which they lived. [source] Mosaic identity and style: Phonological variation among Reform American Jews1JOURNAL OF SOCIOLINGUISTICS, Issue 2 2006Erez Levon Scholars of American Judaism have argued that American Jews are losing their sense of a distinctive Jewish identity, and the cultural practices concomitant with that identity. This general attrition has resulted in what many label the mosaic identity of American Jews, whereby multiple group affiliations exist in tandem and in conflict. Utilizing a reworked framework of language style (based on Bell 1984, 2001), I demonstrate how the claim that Jewish-affiliated practice is compartmentalized and relegated only to specifically Jewish contexts is supported through an examination of the variable pronunciation of word-final /t/. This paper illustrates the ways in which quantitative and qualitative analyses can work together to create a more developed picture of Reform American Judaism. [source] How I became a Jungian analystTHE JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 3 2003Gustav Dreifuss Abstract This paper is a reflection on the significance of 80 years of my life and the 40 years of it I have spent working as a Jungian analyst in Europe and in Israel. If my Jewish identity and my experience of the tragic events of the Holocaust have profoundly influenced the course of my life, it has been my training as a Jungian analyst in Zürich that permitted me to establish a new relationship with the traditional Jewish symbols and created the possibility of a new way of experiencing what it means to be a Jew. This new understanding has in turn helped me both in my work with Holocaust survivors and victims of Israel's various wars and in my theoretical reflections on this subject. [source] The political thought of Isaiah BerlinBRITISH JOURNAL OF POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, Issue 1 2002Dunchan Kelly Typically evaluated for the merits or otherwise of his famous account of ,value pluralism', Isaiah Berlin's more general political thought is less often discussed. However, broader reflection sheds light on three crucial elements necessary for a proper understanding of Berlin's work. First, it shows the importance and context of his analysis of Marx and Marxism in providing the basis for his distinction between pluralism and monism. Secondly, through his criticisms of Marxism, Berlin's political sympathy for a moderate nationalism, something also reflected in his personal considerations regarding Jewish identity, can more easily be gauged. Thirdly, and in conclusion, a combination of this political preference and the ,pluralism,monism' dichotomy offers an explanation as to why Berlin wrote the history of political ideas as he did. [source] | ||||||||||