Pub Date : 2014-10-03DOI: 10.5750/JJSOC.V56I1/2.88
Robert Fine
Universalism shows two faces to Jews: an emancipatory face manifest in movements for legal recognition of Jews as equal citizens and for social recognition of Jews as equal human beings; a repressive face manifest in a reading of the ‘Jewish question’ as the question of what is to be done about the harm Jews do to humanity at large. While the former declares that human beings count as such, regardless of whether they are Jewish or not, and demands that all exclusions be contested, the latter turns ‘the Jews’ into a unitary category incapable of meeting the universal standards of humankind. This paper explores the intimate relation between Jewish emancipation and the Jewish question at three historical moments: 18 th century Enlightenment, 19 th century revolutionary thought, and 20 th century cosmopolitanism.
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Pub Date : 2014-10-03DOI: 10.5750/JJSOC.V56I1/2.84
Mark Tolts
This article is devoted to the scholarly career of Miron Kantorowicz (1895 - after 1977), the German-educated Russian-Jewish refugee. Kantorowicz spent the fifteen years, from 1919 to 1934, in Berlin. He is best known in contemporary Germany as “Alfred Grotjahn’s librarian”, as he was long-time assistant to Grotjahn, the founder of social hygiene, and his name is often mentioned among scholars expelled by the Nazis from Berlin University. However, Kantorowicz’s scholarly career and contributions to demography after his flight from Germany to England and his subsequent emigration to the United States are much less studied and understood. One of the reasons is that he changed his name several times. In June 1934 he immigrated to Great Britain with a provisional visa. The spelling of his family name in this country was changed to Kantorowitsch and his publications were accordingly credited. In London he found temporary work as a statistician at the Jewish Health Organisation of Great Britain (JHOGB), where his good knowledge of general British population statistics and his previous interest in Jewish demography were combined and properly utilized. In 1936, Kantorowicz published two seminal articles resulting from the reports he had prepared for JHOGB. His findings were highly acclaimed by later generations of demographers of Anglo-Jewry. Later, in the course of his migrations he became a co-founder of American demographic Sovietology. When he became a U.S. citizen, he finally settled on the name Myron K. Gordon. The article shows how Kantorowitz’s scholarly career was re-moulded in the course of successive migrations.
这篇文章致力于米隆·坎托罗维茨(1895 - 1977年后)的学术生涯,他是一位在德国接受教育的俄罗斯犹太难民。从1919年到1934年,坎特罗维茨在柏林度过了15年。他在当代德国最为人所知的是“阿尔弗雷德·格罗扬的图书管理员”,因为他是社会卫生学创始人格罗扬的长期助手,他的名字经常在被纳粹开除出柏林大学的学者中被提及。然而,坎特罗维茨的学术生涯和他从德国逃到英国、随后移居美国后对人口学的贡献却很少得到研究和理解。原因之一是他改了好几次名字。1934年6月,他持临时签证移民到英国。在这个国家,他的姓氏的拼写被改为Kantorowitsch,他的出版物也因此得到了认可。在伦敦,他找到了一份临时工作,在英国犹太卫生组织(JHOGB)担任统计学家,在那里,他对英国一般人口统计的良好了解和他之前对犹太人口统计学的兴趣得到了适当的利用。1936年,坎特罗维茨发表了两篇影响深远的文章,这些文章是他为JHOGB准备的报告的结果。他的发现受到了后世盎格鲁-犹太人人口统计学家的高度赞扬。后来,在他的移民过程中,他成为美国人口苏联学的共同创始人。当他成为美国公民时,他终于确定了Myron K. Gordon这个名字。本文展示了坎特罗维茨的学术生涯是如何在连续的移民过程中被重新塑造的。
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Pub Date : 2014-10-03DOI: 10.5750/jjsoc.v56i1/2.90
Helena Miller
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Pub Date : 2014-08-22DOI: 10.5750/JJSOC.V56I1/2.87
I. Baron
This paper explores the relevance of the Jewish Question in the Twenty-First Century. The Jewish Question, what political space exists for the Jews in the modern world, was seemingly answered by two historic events in 1948. The first of these was the creation of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948. The second was the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The first of these meant that Jews could live as Jews in their own state as a majority, in control of their own political destiny. The second of these paved the way for the age of minority rights that developed in the 1960s. This development meant that Jews could live a life as Jews in the Diaspora, thereby significantly altering the terms under with assimilation could be understood. Assimilation became integration. Consequently, it would appear that the Jewish Question has been answered and is no longer of significance in contemporary Jewish thought. However, if that is the case, why is it that the Jewish Question is serving a central role in important contemporary Jewish novels. The Question has served as a key plot element in the novels of two award-winning Jewish novelists, Howard Jacobson and Michael Chabon. Why is the Jewish Question featuring so strongly in the works of leading Jewish authors in the Twenty-First Century? Because it has not been answered. Using a combination of Jewish literature and a political sociological framing of contemporary debates regarding Diaspora/Israel relations, this paper explores how the Jewish Question was not answered, and suggests that part of the reason why the Question has not been answered is because we were never clear on what the Question was in the first place.
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Pub Date : 2014-08-22DOI: 10.5750/JJSOC.V56I1/2.91
Fiona Wright
In this essay I interrogate the place of the ‘Jewish Question’ in contemporary anthropology, based on ethnographic research conducted with Jewish Israeli non- and anti-Zionist left-wing activists. I engage with Jonathan Boyarin’s proposal for ‘Jewish ethnography’ (Boyarin 1996b) via reflections on the ways in which anthropology has failed to incorporate ‘Jewish theory’ as a theoretical other of its disciplinary premises. Exploring the irony of Israeli activists’ artistic and leisure practices, I argue that there is am ambivalent self-mockery at the heart of their attachments to Jewishness. I analyse this with reference to the theories of Judith Butler, Jacques Derrida, and Emmanuel Levinas, who have similarly placed in question the stability of ‘Jewish identity’, and thus what it might mean to do ‘Jewish theory’, in relation to histories of European racism and colonialism. Ultimately I place in question the ideas of both ‘Jewish ethnography’ and ‘Jewish theory’ with a critical perspective on how Jews are seen to present a problematic otherness for anthropology not similarly conceptualised vis-a-vis other ‘Others’.
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Pub Date : 2014-07-24DOI: 10.5750/JJSOC.V56I1/2.83
Roni Berger
This article describes a study that used a qualitative mythology to capture the lived experience of individuals who grew up in Ultra Orthodox and Chasidic communities and left to explore a new path. A convenience sample of 19 individuals from the New York area was used. Non structured individual in-depth interviews were conducted to learn how these individuals perceive, describe, and interpret their experience. The interviews were content-analyzed. This analysis yielded six main themes: The nature of the process (beginnings, intellectual vs. relational motivation, phases, and pivotal points), social attitudes (of the families and the community), emotional issues, challenges, and coping strategies (reaching compromises and reasoning, relocating to a different geographical area, pretending, developing a “thick skin”, and catching up), support sources, current view of the Ultra Orthodox community and of self. These themes are discussed and illustrated. Implications for intervention and for future research are suggested.
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{"title":"Review of Timothy D. Lytton, Kosher: Private Regulation in the Age of Industrial Food","authors":"B. Chiswick","doi":"10.5750/JJSOC.V55I1.82","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5750/JJSOC.V55I1.82","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":143029,"journal":{"name":"The Jewish Journal of Sociology","volume":"166 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115715174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
An earlier paper, in Volume LIII, drew on the 1851 Anglo-Jewry Database (AJDB) to analyse the residence and migrations of Jews living in mid-19th century Britain. The current paper draws further on this source to analyse the population’s occupations from a number of angles in 1851 and other decades, using the standard Booth-Armstrong industrial classification and a custom-designed supplementary taxonomy.
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Persoff has assembled a great deal of data on the selection of Britain's Chief Rabbis, but much of it is gossip and there is little historical analysis.
佩尔索夫收集了大量关于英国首席拉比人选的数据,但其中大部分都是闲言碎语,很少有历史分析。
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M. Shain, S. Fishman, G. Wright, S. Hecht, Leonard Saxe
Contemporary Jewish young adults, like other Americans of their generation, often eschew traditional religious and communal institutions. The term “Do-It-Yourself” (DIY) Judaism has emerged to describe alternative ways of engaging in Jewish life. Although much discussed, little is known about the extent or prevalence of DIY Judaism. Using a large sample of applicants to Taglit-Birthright Israel, the current study explores respondents’ current Jewish activities though quantitative measures as well as through responses to open-ended questions which capture unique ways of engaging with Judaism. The analysis captures both current involvement and how childhood experiences impact adult Jewish engagement. The results indicate that although these young adults are unlikely to be a member of a synagogue, they are attending events sponsored by a wide array of other Jewish organizations, including many small, niche organizations, and some celebrate Shabbat. The majority of young adults also celebrated Hanukkah and attended a Passover seder during the past year. Home-based or self-organized ritual practice appears more appealing for the current young adult generation and far exceeds engagement with traditional Jewish organizations. As expected, current engagement is strongly predicted by respondents’ background and intervening Jewish experiences, such as participation in Taglit. Those with stronger Jewish backgrounds are significantly more likely to celebrate Shabbat and holidays and participate in Jewish-sponsored events. Single young adults with minimal Jewish background, however, remain an especially disconnected segment of the Jewish population, and practices of DIY Judaism have yet to capture this particular demographic.
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