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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 ...
the mere presence of the language in spoken or written form could invoke the concept of a Jewish national identity. Even if one knew no Hebrew or was illiterate, one could recognize that a group of signs was in Hebrew script. ... It was the language of the Israelite ancestors, the national literature, and the national religion.
Jewish nationhood is a complex and multifaceted concept that encompasses shared history, culture, religion, and a sense of belonging to a community, and has been a driving force in the preservation of Jewish identity throughout history and continues to shape the Jewish experience.
Zionism rejected traditional Judaic definitions of what it means to be Jewish, but struggled to offer a new interpretation of Jewish identity independent of rabbinical tradition. Jewish religion is viewed as an essentially negative factor, even in religious Zionist ideology, and as responsible for the diminishing status of Jews living as a ...
"The Jew as Pariah" in The Jew as Pariah: Jewish Identity and Politics in the Modern Age. R.H. Feldman, ed. New York: Grove Press 1978. Birnbaum, Pierre and Ira Katznelson, eds. Paths of Emancipation: Jews, States, and Citizenship. Princeton: Princeton University Press 1995. Case, Holly. The Age of Questions (Princeton University Press, 2018 ...
Researcher Sergio Della Pergola found that in English-speaking countries, "the mother is the dominant parent in transmitting a group identity to the children of [intermarriages]. If the mother is Jewish, the child tends more often to be identified as Jewish, and if the mother is not Jewish, the child tends to be non-Jewish." [85]
According to Shaye J. D. Cohen, the meaning of the term "Ioudaios" evolved throughout the Second Temple period, with 2 Maccabees representing a greater emphasis on the cultural and religious aspects of Jewish identity. [9] Despite this shift, later sources still highlight the importance of kinship and blood in Jewish national identity.
The Jewish diaspora (Hebrew: גוֹלָה, romanized: gōlā), dispersion (Hebrew: תְּפוּצָה, romanized: təfūṣā) or exile (Hebrew: גָּלוּת gālūṯ; Yiddish: גלות, romanized: goles) [a] is the dispersion of Israelites or Jews out of their ancient ancestral homeland (the Land of Israel) and their subsequent settlement ...