Becoming Jewish
Subtitle: new Jews and emerging Jewish communities in a globalized world
By: edited by Tudor Parfitt and Netanel Fisher
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9781443899659
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Jews; Identity; Jewish converts; Jewish diaspora; Judentum; Konversion; Proselyt
Description: 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. In this volume, leading scholars of issues related to conversion, Judaising movements and Judaism as a New Religious Movement discuss and explain this global movement towards identification with the Jewish people, from Germany and Poland to China and Nigeria.--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction:; title: New Jews from a Global Perspective  -- Tudor Parfitt and Netanel Fisher; title: Joining or Rejoining the Jewish People in Africa  -- Tudor Parfitt; title: The Unification of the Ten Lost Tribes with the Two "Found" Tribes  -- Shalva Weil; title: Lost Tribes Communities, Israel, and Notions of Jewishness  -- Yulia Egorova; title: Origins and Motivations of Madagascar's Normative Jewish Movement  -- Nathan Devir; title: 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; title: Kaifeng Judaism Today: Revival or Reintroduction?  -- Noam Urbach; title: From Apulia to Sicily: Places and Charismatic Leaders as Agents of Memory among Converts in Italy  -- Emanuela Trevisan Semi; title: New Jews in Europe  -- Eliezer Ben-Rafael; title: Joining the Jewish Fold: The Changing Conversion Policies in Austria and Germany since 1945: Susanne Cohen Weisz --; title: "The German Desire to be Jewish": Conversions of Non-Jewish Germans to Judaism after 1945  -- Barbara Steiner; title: Polish Newcomers to Jewishness: A Reflection in the Wake of the Revival  -- Jan Lorenz; title: Non-Traditional Ways of Joining the Jewish Collective: The FSU Experience  -- Vladimir (Ze'ev) Khanin and Elina Bardach-Yalov; title: Disciplinary, Normative and Instituional Aspects of Conversion to Judaism  -- Sergio DellaPergola; title: Joining the Jewish State: Israel's Conversion Policies  -- Netanel Fisher; title: Non-Jewish Immigrants from the FSU as Members of Jewish Society in Israel  -- Arie Haskin; title: Lay Theories and Attitudes toward Giyur among Israeli Jews  -- Gabriel Horenczyk and Hagit Hacohen Wolf; title: The Struggle of the Bene Israel to Be Recognized as Jews in Israel  -- Vivian Hafif Digmi; title: Messianic Religious Zionism and the Lost Tribes: The Case of the Bene Menashe  -- Galit Shashoua; title: "Your People Shall Be My Peole and Your Culture My Culture": Becoming a Jew --; title: a Peoplehood Perspective  -- Regev Ben- David; title: Choosing Jews and Jewishness: A Portrait of Converts Married to American Jews  -- Sylvia Barack Fishman; title: Unofficial Conversions: Non-Jewish Participants in Contemporary American Synagogues  -- Yaakov Ariel; title: Participation of Non-Jewish Family Members in Bar/Bat-Mitzvah Ceremonies in the American Reform Movement: Boundaries of Inclusion?  -- Dalia Marx; title: Bridging Messianic Christianity and Liberal Judaism: A Journey of an American Convert  -- Chen Bram; title: The "Peculiar Institution" of Religion Freedom in the US: Conversion and Jews in the US Context -- Marla Brettschneider.