Jewry Between Tradition and Secularism: Europe and Israel Compared

by Eliezer Ben-Rafael

Are Jews today still the carriers of a single and identical collective identity and do they still constitute a single people? This two-fold question arises when one compares a Hassidi Habad from Brooklyn, a Jewish professor at a secular university in Brussels, a traditional Yemeni Jew still living in Sana'a, a Galilee kibbutznik, or a Russian Jew in Novossibirsk. Is there still today a significant relationship between these individuals who all subscribe...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004151400
• ISBN13: 9789004151406
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 321 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.6"