Abstract
The high-profile and long debated issue of future continuity for the US Jewish community is anchored to the question: Continuity of what? And for whom? One possible answer is: continuity of a Jewish community knowledgeable of and comfortable with its own particular and distinctive culture, and which activates a well-developed network of intra-group relations. The thriving presence of a Jewish community can also be assessed transnationally, looking at the strength of its links with, and impact on other Jewish communities worldwide. This chapter focuses especially on one mechanism of Jewish identity creation and transmission – Jewish education. Relying on NJPS data of the 1990s Jewish education seemed indeed to play an agreed role of mediation between the stronger existing options of self-segregation and/or community affiliation, versus the weaker options of borderline non-otherness. Follow-up of Jewish education in the US over the last 30 years points to a clear bifurcation between the rapidly growing Orthodox educational networks, and the rather stagnating non-Orthodox Jewish educational networks.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Studies of Jews in Society |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 27-36 |
Number of pages | 10 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2024 |
Publication series
Name | Studies of Jews in Society |
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Volume | 7 |
ISSN (Print) | 2524-4302 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 2524-4310 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024.
Keywords
- Borderline non-otherness
- Community affiliation
- Jewish day schools
- Jewish education
- Jewish identity options
- Jewish supplementary education
- Self-segregation