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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. In the late 19th century, amid attempts to apply science to notions of race, the founders of Zionism (Theodor Herzl and Max Nordau, among others) sought to reformulate conceptions of Jewishness in terms of racial identity and the "race science" of the time. They believed that this concept would ...
The Identity Question: Blacks and Jews in Europe and America, by Robert Philipson, is a diasporic study of Black and Jewish consciousness in Europe and America throughout history. The book is separated into three parts, exploring different historical and philosophical perspectives on race over time.
Jewish identity began to gain the attention of Jewish sociologists in the United States with the publication of Marshall Sklare's "Lakeville studies". [20] Among other topics explored in the studies was Sklare's notion of a "good Jew". [21] The "good Jew" was essentially an idealized form of Jewish identity as expressed by the Lakeville ...
Jewish identity Split at the Root: An Essay on Jewish Identity is a 1982 essay by American poet and activist Adrienne Rich . The essay explores Rich's patrilineal Jewish heritage and her maternal Protestant heritage, as well as issues of Jewish identity, antisemitism , racism, whiteness, class, The Holocaust , and Jewish assimilation.
As opposed to the religion of Judaism and its formative role in shaping Jewish identity, and the slow formation of a sense of Jewish nationality from Ezra and Nehemiah down to the Hasmoneans [10] and onwards, [11] theories on the ethnic origins of Jews, and what constitutes ‘Jewish ness’ [12] [13] have been questioned and the traditional ...
This wisdom captures the Jewish response of transforming hatred and threats to a catalyst for strengthening faith and identity, like the flickering menorah’s flames shining in the darkest nights.
Moment Mag argues the term is evolving, "reflecting the Jewish community’s reckoning with race and its own racial blind spots". [16] Responses from 1,100 people in the Jews of color Initiative study revealed a deep engagement with Jewish identity that has often come with experiences of discrimination in communal settings. [17]
Some Jews have claimed that Jewish people as a whole, or Ashkenazi Jews in particular, are innately more intelligent on average compared to non-Jews or Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews. Jewish intelligence and Jewish IQs have been widely discussed in the context of scientific racism. The idea that biology determines Jewish intelligence has been ...