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Religion or Ethnicity?: Jewish Identities in Evolution
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Religion or Ethnicity?: Jewish Identities in Evolution Hardcover - 2009

by Zvi Gitelman (Editor); Contribution by Zvi Gitelman; Contribution by Yaron Eliav


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Can someone be considered Jewish if he or she never goes to synagogue, doesn't keep kosher, and for whom the only connection to his or her ancestral past is attending an annual Passover seder?

In Religion or Ethnicity? fifteen leading scholars trace the evolution of Jewish identity. The book examines Judaism from the Greco-Roman age, through medieval times, modern western and eastern Europe, to today. Jewish identity has been defined as an ethnicity, a nation, a culture, and even a race. Religion or Ethnicity? questions what it means to be Jewish. The contributors show how the Jewish people have evolved over time in different ethnic, religious, and political movements. In his closing essay, Gitelman questions the viability of secular Jewishness outside Israel but suggests that the continued interest in exploring the relationship between Judaism's secular and religious forms will keep the heritage alive for generations to come.

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  • Title Religion or Ethnicity?: Jewish Identities in Evolution
  • Author Zvi Gitelman (Editor); Contribution by Zvi Gitelman; Contribution by Yaron Eliav
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Rutgers University Press
  • Date 2009-05-05
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780813544502 / 0813544505
  • Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.9 in (23.62 x 16.00 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
  • Library of Congress subjects Jews - Identity, Jews - Civilization
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008016701
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.892

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Citations

  • Choice, 04/01/2010, Page 0
  • Chronicle of Higher Education, 07/24/2009, Page 17

About the author

Zvi Gitelman is a professor of comparative politics and Judaic studies at the University of Michigan. He is also a research scientist at the University's Center for Russian and East European Studies. He has written or edited numerous works on the Jews of eastern Europe, including Jewish Life After the USSR and A Century of Ambivalence: The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union.
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