Steven M. Cohen & Gabriel Horenczyk 
National Variations in Jewish Identity [PDF ebook] 
Implications for Jewish Education

Introduction
Steven M. Cohen

Part I. Jewish Responses to Modernity

1. Being Jewish and . . .
Michael A. Meyer

2. Jewish Religious, Ethnic, and National Identities: Convergences and Conflicts
Daniel J. Elazar

3. Arthur Ruppin Revisited: The Jews of Today, 1904–1994
Sergio Della Pergola

4. A Tradition of Invention: Family and Educational Institutions among Contemporary Traditionalizing Jews
Harvey E. Goldberg

Part II. European and North American Variations

5. National Contexts, Eastern European Immigrants, and Jewish Identity: A Comparative Analysis
Paula E. Hyman

6. British Jews or Britons of the Jewish Persuasion? The Religious Constraints of Civic Freedom
Geoffrey Alderman

7. Reluctant Cosmopolitans: The Impact of Continentalism, Multiculturalism, and Globalization on Jewish Identity in Canada
Stuart Schoenfeld

8. From Commandment to Persuasion: Probing the ‘Hard’ Secularism of American Jewry
Henry L. Feingold

9. Family Economy/Family Relations: The Development of American Jewish Ethnicity in the Early Twentieth Century
Riv-Ellen Prell

Part III. Regional Variations in the United States

10. Inventing Jewish Identity in California: Shlomo Bardin, Zionism, and the Brandeis Camp Institute
Deborah Dash Moore

11. Jewishness in New York: Exception or the Rule?
Bethamie Horowitz

Part IV. The Israeli Difference

12. From Individuality to Identity: Directions in the Thought of J. B. Soloveitchik and Eliezer Schweid
Jonathan Cohen

13. Patterns of Jewish Identity Among Israeli Youth and Implications for Teaching of Jewish Sources
Asher Shkedi

14. A Social Constructivist Approach to Jewish Identity
Gabriel Horencyzk and Zvi Bekerman

15. Jewish and Other National and Ethnic Identities of Israeli Jews
Stephen Sharot

Index

At the Hebrew University,
Steven M. Cohen is Associate Professor at the Melton Center for Jewish Education and
Gabriel Horenczyk is Senior Lecturer at the Melton Center and the School of Education. Cohen is the author of several books, including
Two Worlds of Judaism: The Israeli and American Experiences (with Charles Liebman), and
Cosmopolitans and Parochials: Modern Orthodox Jews in America (with Samuel C. Heilman). Horenczyk is the coeditor of
Language, Identity, and Immigration (with Elite Olshtain).