In this paper I reflect on the changes in Jewish society around the globe that I have observed during the four decades since 1972 when I first began working as a scholar and researcher in Jewish social science. The focus is on why and how in the Jewish Diaspora and even in Israel the output, research agendas and concerns of Jewish sociology and demography have changed over this period and, in particular, over the past two decades. The changes have come about as a result of political and social forces as well as the influences of academic fashion and imbalances in disciplinary recruitment. Since the United States is by far the largest diaspora Jewish population centre, has the most sophisticated and best resourced communal organizations as well as the largest concentration of academics working in the field much of the focus of this essay will be on developments affecting research on American Jewry.
{"title":"EDITORIAL ESSAY: CHANGING AGENDAS IN THE SOCIOLOGICAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC STUDY OF DIASPORA JEWS","authors":"B. Kosmin","doi":"10.5750/JJSOC.V54I0.60","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5750/JJSOC.V54I0.60","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper I reflect on the changes in Jewish society around the globe that I have observed during the four decades since 1972 when I first began working as a scholar and researcher in Jewish social science. The focus is on why and how in the Jewish Diaspora and even in Israel the output, research agendas and concerns of Jewish sociology and demography have changed over this period and, in particular, over the past two decades. The changes have come about as a result of political and social forces as well as the influences of academic fashion and imbalances in disciplinary recruitment. Since the United States is by far the largest diaspora Jewish population centre, has the most sophisticated and best resourced communal organizations as well as the largest concentration of academics working in the field much of the focus of this essay will be on developments affecting research on American Jewry.","PeriodicalId":143029,"journal":{"name":"The Jewish Journal of Sociology","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123346203","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}
This paper deals with the cemetery at Kibbutz Ein Harod, the first cemetery to be established in the Jezreel Valley and of historic importance to the Kibbutz Hameuhad movement. In an attempt to understand the extent to which the cemeteries have reflected tensions between the values of egalitarianism and personal diversity and the conflicts that have arisen as a result, I hypothesize that the burial plots reflect the cultural transformations that the kibbutz has undergone over the course of time.
{"title":"LANDSCAPES OF DEATH — THE KIBBUTZ AND THE CEMETERY","authors":"Y. Bar-Gal","doi":"10.5750/JJSOC.V54I0.54","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5750/JJSOC.V54I0.54","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with the cemetery at Kibbutz Ein Harod, the first cemetery to be established in the Jezreel Valley and of historic importance to the Kibbutz Hameuhad movement. In an attempt to understand the extent to which the cemeteries have reflected tensions between the values of egalitarianism and personal diversity and the conflicts that have arisen as a result, I hypothesize that the burial plots reflect the cultural transformations that the kibbutz has undergone over the course of time.","PeriodicalId":143029,"journal":{"name":"The Jewish Journal of Sociology","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129495546","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}
This note addresses some features of the London mayoral election of 3 May 2012. Two candidaters dominated the event: Boris Johnson the incumbent, a politically Conservative idiosyncratic media personality and Ken Livingstone, his predecessor, a stalwart of the Labour party’s ‘hard’ Left who had served as Mayor from 2000 until 2008. Livingstone lost the electoral contest in a singularly significant way and Jews played a significant role in his defeat.
{"title":"LONDON JEWRY AND THE LONDON MAYORAL ELECTION OF 2012: A NOTE","authors":"G. Alderman","doi":"10.5750/JJSOC.V54I0.57","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5750/JJSOC.V54I0.57","url":null,"abstract":"This note addresses some features of the London mayoral election of 3 May 2012. Two candidaters dominated the event: Boris Johnson the incumbent, a politically Conservative idiosyncratic media personality and Ken Livingstone, his predecessor, a stalwart of the Labour party’s ‘hard’ Left who had served as Mayor from 2000 until 2008. Livingstone lost the electoral contest in a singularly significant way and Jews played a significant role in his defeat.","PeriodicalId":143029,"journal":{"name":"The Jewish Journal of Sociology","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134314566","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}
This paper examines the use of the Internet by Lubavitcher Hasidim. It focuses on the (now deceased) Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Igros Kodesh — a compilation of his writings. Following his death in 1994 it became commonplace for Lubavitchers to consult the physical text to seek the Rebbe’s advice, blessings and ‘miracles’- a modern day form of bibliomancy. Recently it has become possible to perform this activity online. Using data from a chat forum I analyse attitudes towards the online version and discuss my findings in relation to studies examining the relationships between online and offline religious experience using Durkheim’s categories of the sacred and profane.
{"title":"INTERNET MEDIATED MIRACLES: THE LUBAVITCHER REBBE’S ONLINE IGROS KODESH","authors":"S. Dein","doi":"10.5750/JJSOC.V54I0.56","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5750/JJSOC.V54I0.56","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the use of the Internet by Lubavitcher Hasidim. It focuses on the (now deceased) Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Igros Kodesh — a compilation of his writings. Following his death in 1994 it became commonplace for Lubavitchers to consult the physical text to seek the Rebbe’s advice, blessings and ‘miracles’- a modern day form of bibliomancy. Recently it has become possible to perform this activity online. Using data from a chat forum I analyse attitudes towards the online version and discuss my findings in relation to studies examining the relationships between online and offline religious experience using Durkheim’s categories of the sacred and profane.","PeriodicalId":143029,"journal":{"name":"The Jewish Journal of Sociology","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121679055","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}
A focus on children’s housework, concerning where and by whom specific chores are performed, how they are viewed and interpreted, and the types of entitlements they entail, shows the significance of space for the way housework is conducted in society. Insights obtained from Haredi (Jewish Ultra-Orthodox) informants of three groups explicate how representations of children performing housework are understood: first, employed mothers evaluated children’s housework from within the family; second, adult bystanders interpreted their observations of children performing housework outside the home; third, children performing housework outside the home conveyed their own experience of it. Findings indicate that children forthrightly defined their activity as work, but local knowledge imparted by adults identified it as learning and that children and the housework they do were supervised by unfamiliar adults. Spatial analysis revealed adults’ dependence on children’s housework, which partially reverses the ordinary adult-child hierarchy.
{"title":"SERVED BY THE CHILDREN: THE SPATIALIZATION OF CHILDREN'S HOUSEWORK IN HAREDI SOCIETY IN ISRAEL","authors":"Orna Blumen","doi":"10.5750/JJSOC.V54I0.53","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5750/JJSOC.V54I0.53","url":null,"abstract":"A focus on children’s housework, concerning where and by whom specific chores are performed, how they are viewed and interpreted, and the types of entitlements they entail, shows the significance of space for the way housework is conducted in society. Insights obtained from Haredi (Jewish Ultra-Orthodox) informants of three groups explicate how representations of children performing housework are understood: first, employed mothers evaluated children’s housework from within the family; second, adult bystanders interpreted their observations of children performing housework outside the home; third, children performing housework outside the home conveyed their own experience of it. Findings indicate that children forthrightly defined their activity as work, but local knowledge imparted by adults identified it as learning and that children and the housework they do were supervised by unfamiliar adults. Spatial analysis revealed adults’ dependence on children’s housework, which partially reverses the ordinary adult-child hierarchy.","PeriodicalId":143029,"journal":{"name":"The Jewish Journal of Sociology","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127271576","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}
The 2001 census count of Britain’s Jewish population is placed in the context of over a century of work estimating this group’s size. It is argued that the published census figure of 267,000 was surprisingly low given the long term trend indicated by this work. Therefore, other data from both the 2001 census and appropriate communal sources are used to derive an adjusted figure of about 301,000. It is argued that this is a more accurate representation of the size of Britain’s Jewish population in 2001. The implications of this figure are that the demographic decline, charted in Britain since the 1960s, appears to have abated with the most likely underlying cause being the rapid demographic growth exhibited by Britain’s haredi (strictly Orthodox) population since the 1970s.
{"title":"ENUMERATING BRITAIN’S JEWISH POPULATION: REASSESSING THE 2001 CENSUS IN THE CONTEXT OF ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF INDIRECT ESTIMATES","authors":"David J. Graham","doi":"10.5750/JJSOC.V53I1.41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5750/JJSOC.V53I1.41","url":null,"abstract":"The 2001 census count of Britain’s Jewish population is placed in the context of over a century of work estimating this group’s size. It is argued that the published census figure of 267,000 was surprisingly low given the long term trend indicated by this work. Therefore, other data from both the 2001 census and appropriate communal sources are used to derive an adjusted figure of about 301,000. It is argued that this is a more accurate representation of the size of Britain’s Jewish population in 2001. The implications of this figure are that the demographic decline, charted in Britain since the 1960s, appears to have abated with the most likely underlying cause being the rapid demographic growth exhibited by Britain’s haredi (strictly Orthodox) population since the 1970s.","PeriodicalId":143029,"journal":{"name":"The Jewish Journal of Sociology","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124580074","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}
In Volume LII 2010, some important information was omitted from The Jews of Boston, Lincolnshire.
在2010年第ii卷中，林肯郡波士顿的犹太人遗漏了一些重要信息。
{"title":"THE JEWS OF BOSTON, LINCOLNSHIRE: ADDENDUM","authors":"H. Pollins","doi":"10.5750/JJSOC.V53I1.44","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5750/JJSOC.V53I1.44","url":null,"abstract":"In Volume LII 2010, some important information was omitted from The Jews of Boston, Lincolnshire.","PeriodicalId":143029,"journal":{"name":"The Jewish Journal of Sociology","volume":"184 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121268743","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}
This article examines the ways in which British Jewish youth movements support, denounce and struggle with the concept of Jewish pluralism and how these actions mimic or diverge from wider communal debates. I argue that these young leaders often consider their approaches to intra-Jewish diversity to be more nuanced than the two dominant (and polarised) communal positions on pluralism. I conclude that youth movements provide an important space for engaging with notions of pluralism in more controversial and significant ways than can be seen in wider British Jewish debates on the issue, but these movements devise educational agendas that are still constrained by a fear of transgressing against the increasingly controversial concept of a singular ‘authentic’ Judaism.
{"title":"THE PLURALITY OF PLURALISM: YOUTH MOVEMENTS AND THE COMMUNAL DISCOURSE OF JEWISH DIVERSITY","authors":"S. Abramson","doi":"10.5750/jjsoc.v53i1.43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5750/jjsoc.v53i1.43","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the ways in which British Jewish youth movements support, denounce and struggle with the concept of Jewish pluralism and how these actions mimic or diverge from wider communal debates. I argue that these young leaders often consider their approaches to intra-Jewish diversity to be more nuanced than the two dominant (and polarised) communal positions on pluralism. I conclude that youth movements provide an important space for engaging with notions of pluralism in more controversial and significant ways than can be seen in wider British Jewish debates on the issue, but these movements devise educational agendas that are still constrained by a fear of transgressing against the increasingly controversial concept of a singular ‘authentic’ Judaism.","PeriodicalId":143029,"journal":{"name":"The Jewish Journal of Sociology","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128136492","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}
This paper offers the beginnings of a statistical portrait of the Jewish community living in mid-19th century Britain, before the age of mass immigration later in the century. It draws on the 1851 Anglo-Jewry Database (1851 AJDB) which has been under development over the past decade with the aim of offering an improved quantitative dimension to the existing historiography, and records information on 28,773 individuals. The paper suggests some fine-tuning of overall population estimates for this community; it then examines the range of birthplaces and later residence of the population in scope, along with their migrations both before and after 1851.
{"title":"JEWS IN THE BRITISH ISLES IN 1851: BIRTHPLACES, RESIDENCE AND MIGRATIONS","authors":"P. Laidlaw","doi":"10.5750/JJSOC.V53I1.42","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5750/JJSOC.V53I1.42","url":null,"abstract":"This paper offers the beginnings of a statistical portrait of the Jewish community living in mid-19th century Britain, before the age of mass immigration later in the century. It draws on the 1851 Anglo-Jewry Database (1851 AJDB) which has been under development over the past decade with the aim of offering an improved quantitative dimension to the existing historiography, and records information on 28,773 individuals. The paper suggests some fine-tuning of overall population estimates for this community; it then examines the range of birthplaces and later residence of the population in scope, along with their migrations both before and after 1851.","PeriodicalId":143029,"journal":{"name":"The Jewish Journal of Sociology","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131004983","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}
This paper explores the history and development of the Jewish ritual of kapparot; it has traditionally been performed during the high holy days (between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur: between the Jewish New Year and the Day of Atonement) and traditionally on the eve of Yom Kippur.
{"title":"THE RITUAL OF KAPPAROT","authors":"S. Fishbane","doi":"10.5750/JJSOC.V50I1.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5750/JJSOC.V50I1.19","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the history and development of the Jewish ritual of kapparot; it has traditionally been performed during the high holy days (between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur: between the Jewish New Year and the Day of Atonement) and traditionally on the eve of Yom Kippur.","PeriodicalId":143029,"journal":{"name":"The Jewish Journal of Sociology","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123353729","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}
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