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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Tudor Parfitt; Netanel Fisher |
| ISBN: | 1443899658 9781443899659 |
| OCLC Number: | 959330137 |
| Description: | xvi, 424 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Contents: | Introduction: New Jews from a Global Perspective / Tudor Parfitt and Netanel Fisher -- Joining or Rejoining the Jewish People in Africa / Tudor Parfitt -- The Unification of the Ten Lost Tribes with the Two "Found" Tribes / Shalva Weil -- Lost Tribes Communities, Israel, and Notions of Jewishness / Yulia Egorova -- Origins and Motivations of Madagascar's Normative Jewish Movement / Nathan Devir -- Joining the Conversation from a Distance: A Comparison of the Evolution of Jewish Identity among the Igbo from Nigeria and Ethopian Beta Israel / Daniel Lis -- Kaifeng Judaism Today: Revival or Reintroduction? / Noam Urbach -- From Apulia to Sicily: Places and Charismatic Leaders as Agents of Memory among Converts in Italy / Emanuela Trevisan Semi -- New Jews in Europe / Eliezer Ben-Rafael -- Joining the Jewish Fold: The Changing Conversion Policies in Austria and Germany since 1945: Susanne Cohen Weisz -- "The German Desire to be Jewish": Conversions of Non-Jewish Germans to Judaism after 1945 / Barbara Steiner -- Polish Newcomers to Jewishness: A Reflection in the Wake of the Revival / Jan Lorenz -- Non-Traditional Ways of Joining the Jewish Collective: The FSU Experience / Vladimir (Ze'ev) Khanin and Elina Bardach-Yalov -- Disciplinary, Normative and Instituional Aspects of Conversion to Judaism / Sergio DellaPergola -- Joining the Jewish State: Israel's Conversion Policies / Netanel Fisher -- Non-Jewish Immigrants from the FSU as Members of Jewish Society in Israel / Arie Haskin -- Lay Theories and Attitudes toward Giyur among Israeli Jews / Gabriel Horenczyk and Hagit Hacohen Wolf -- The Struggle of the Bene Israel to Be Recognized as Jews in Israel / Vivian Hafif Digmi -- Messianic Religious Zionism and the Lost Tribes: The Case of the Bene Menashe / Galit Shashoua -- "Your People Shall Be My Peole and Your Culture My Culture": Becoming a Jew -- a Peoplehood Perspective / Regev Ben- David -- Choosing Jews and Jewishness: A Portrait of Converts Married to American Jews / Sylvia Barack Fishman -- Unofficial Conversions: Non-Jewish Participants in Contemporary American Synagogues / Yaakov Ariel -- Participation of Non-Jewish Family Members in Bar/Bat-Mitzvah Ceremonies in the American Reform Movement: Boundaries of Inclusion? / Dalia Marx -- Bridging Messianic Christianity and Liberal Judaism: A Journey of an American Convert / Chen Bram -- The "Peculiar Institution" of Religion Freedom in the US: Conversion and Jews in the US Context / Marla Brettschneider. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Tudor Parfitt and Netanel Fisher. |
Abstract:
One of the most striking contemporary religious phenomena is the world-wide fascination with Judaism. Traditionally, few non-Jews converted to the Jewish faith, but today millions of people throughout the world are converting to Judaism and are identifying as Jews or Israelites.
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