Leonard Mars
Biographic Data
| ID | 3584028 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leonard Mars |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leonard |
| FAMILY NAME | Mars |
| SIGNATURE | MARS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swansea University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reflections of an Atheist Jew
I was not born nor raised an atheist Jew. My identity was formed by various factors among them family background; geographical migration; British education; secular Zionism; anthropological study and research. These factors were the precipitates of two earlier modern revolutions that transformed the modern world and that affected both Jews and non-Jews, namely the French Revolution which was political, and the Industrial Revolution which was econ…
Jewish Families by JonathanBoyarin. Vol. 4New Brunswick
Jewish Studies at the Crossroads of Anthropology and History
This book is the product of one year's discussions among scholars, which took place in 2003–2004 at the Herbert D. Katz Centre for Advanced Judaic Studies in the University of Pennsylvania. The con
The multi‐cultural challenge in Israel – Edited by Avi Sagi & Ohad Nachtomy
Youth and the state in Hungary
Coming Out
To be a Jew in communist Hungary between 1948-1989 was to be a person carrying a stigma. Jewish identity was suppressed in public and in many cases in private. Since the demise of the communist regime Hungarian Jews have begun to proclaim their identity publicly. In short Jews are “coming out”. In this paper I describe the ways in which Jewish identity is expressed and I analyse the factors, both internal and external that have facilitated such e…
Is There a Religious Revival among Hungarian Jews Today
There are about 100,000 Jews in Hungary today. Most dwell in the capital, Budapest. Few are registered with the official Jewish community and most are assimilated. Since the demise of Communism in 1989, there has been a resurgence of Jewish life. However, can we say that there is a religious revival? There are new forms of Jewish religious life, but I argue that the revival is more cultural than religious in that more Jews are prepared to acknowl…
Cultural Aid and Jewish Identity in Post-Communist Hungary
This paper is based on current research which is concerned with the revival of religious and ethnic identity among Jews in Hungary after the collapse of communism. Several non-governmental institutions, groups and individuals from various countries, but especially Israel, the UK and the USA, are involved in the revitalization and transformation of Jewish life in the areas of education, ethnicity, religion and social welfare. I examine the complex…
Discontinuity, Tradition, and Innovation
Since the end of Communist rule Hungary has been re-examining its own national identity and so too have its Jewish citizens. The renegotiation and reconstruction of Jewish identity is characterized by the ability of individuals and groups to choose from a variety of identities. Choices, pace Giddens, are not made by some decontextualized individual in a quest for self-identity but rather in the context of social networks and resources. The choice…
Food and disharmony
(1997). Food and disharmony: Commensality among Jews. Food and Foodways: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 189-202
People of the Body
Conceptual Change and Religious Practice
What Was Onan's Crime
This article has had a long incubation. Three stimuli operating in different ways over a period of time account for its genesis: my exposure to anthropological writings on the Bible, my field work research in Israel, and my teaching of social anthropology in Swansea. Education in England, both secular and religious (by the latter I mean attendance at Hebrew classes outside of school from age seven to thirteen, culminating in my bar mitzvah), had …
The Village and the State
The Village and the State
The Social Context of Violent Behaviour
First published in 1976. Violent behaviour occurs in every society. It grows out of the social order and can therefore be understood only in a social context. This book examines an orderly and relatively tranquil society, a small Israeli town settled by new immigrants, which is run by public agencies who pour in their resources to maintain the inhabitants. Circumstances have made the town an egalitarian society, but also limit its members' econom…
The Position of the Administrator in an Israeli Cooperative Village1
This article examines the role of the village administrator in an Israeli cooperative village settled by Jewish immigrants. It focusses on his involvement in three sets of relationships: - (1) with the Land Settlement Department of the Jewish Agency which establishes and administers new villages, (2) with the political party to which the village is affiliated, and (3) with the villagers themselves. These sets of relationships impose conflicting p…
The Social Context of Violent Behaviour
First published in 1976. Violent behaviour occurs in every society. It grows out of the social order and can therefore be understood only in a social context. This book examines an orderly and relatively tranquil society, a small Israeli town settled by new immigrants, which is run by public agencies who pour in their resources to maintain the inhabitants. Circumstances have made the town an egalitarian society, but also limit its members' econom…
Food and disharmony
(1997). Food and disharmony: Commensality among Jews. Food and Foodways: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 189-202
What Was Onan's Crime
This article has had a long incubation. Three stimuli operating in different ways over a period of time account for its genesis: my exposure to anthropological writings on the Bible, my field work research in Israel, and my teaching of social anthropology in Swansea. Education in England, both secular and religious (by the latter I mean attendance at Hebrew classes outside of school from age seven to thirteen, culminating in my bar mitzvah), had …
Coming Out
To be a Jew in communist Hungary between 1948-1989 was to be a person carrying a stigma. Jewish identity was suppressed in public and in many cases in private. Since the demise of the communist regime Hungarian Jews have begun to proclaim their identity publicly. In short Jews are “coming out”. In this paper I describe the ways in which Jewish identity is expressed and I analyse the factors, both internal and external that have facilitated such e…
Is There a Religious Revival among Hungarian Jews Today
There are about 100,000 Jews in Hungary today. Most dwell in the capital, Budapest. Few are registered with the official Jewish community and most are assimilated. Since the demise of Communism in 1989, there has been a resurgence of Jewish life. However, can we say that there is a religious revival? There are new forms of Jewish religious life, but I argue that the revival is more cultural than religious in that more Jews are prepared to acknowl…
Cultural Aid and Jewish Identity in Post-Communist Hungary
This paper is based on current research which is concerned with the revival of religious and ethnic identity among Jews in Hungary after the collapse of communism. Several non-governmental institutions, groups and individuals from various countries, but especially Israel, the UK and the USA, are involved in the revitalization and transformation of Jewish life in the areas of education, ethnicity, religion and social welfare. I examine the complex…
The Position of the Administrator in an Israeli Cooperative Village1
This article examines the role of the village administrator in an Israeli cooperative village settled by Jewish immigrants. It focusses on his involvement in three sets of relationships: - (1) with the Land Settlement Department of the Jewish Agency which establishes and administers new villages, (2) with the political party to which the village is affiliated, and (3) with the villagers themselves. These sets of relationships impose conflicting p…
The Social Context of Violent Behaviour
First published in 1976. Violent behaviour occurs in every society. It grows out of the social order and can therefore be understood only in a social context. This book examines an orderly and relatively tranquil society, a small Israeli town settled by new immigrants, which is run by public agencies who pour in their resources to maintain the inhabitants. Circumstances have made the town an egalitarian society, but also limit its members' econom…
The Village and the State
The Village and the State
What Was Onan's Crime
This article has had a long incubation. Three stimuli operating in different ways over a period of time account for its genesis: my exposure to anthropological writings on the Bible, my field work research in Israel, and my teaching of social anthropology in Swansea. Education in England, both secular and religious (by the latter I mean attendance at Hebrew classes outside of school from age seven to thirteen, culminating in my bar mitzvah), had …
Conceptual Change and Religious Practice
People of the Body
Food and disharmony
(1997). Food and disharmony: Commensality among Jews. Food and Foodways: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 189-202
Discontinuity, Tradition, and Innovation
Since the end of Communist rule Hungary has been re-examining its own national identity and so too have its Jewish citizens. The renegotiation and reconstruction of Jewish identity is characterized by the ability of individuals and groups to choose from a variety of identities. Choices, pace Giddens, are not made by some decontextualized individual in a quest for self-identity but rather in the context of social networks and resources. The choice…
Cultural Aid and Jewish Identity in Post-Communist Hungary
This paper is based on current research which is concerned with the revival of religious and ethnic identity among Jews in Hungary after the collapse of communism. Several non-governmental institutions, groups and individuals from various countries, but especially Israel, the UK and the USA, are involved in the revitalization and transformation of Jewish life in the areas of education, ethnicity, religion and social welfare. I examine the complex…
Is There a Religious Revival among Hungarian Jews Today
There are about 100,000 Jews in Hungary today. Most dwell in the capital, Budapest. Few are registered with the official Jewish community and most are assimilated. Since the demise of Communism in 1989, there has been a resurgence of Jewish life. However, can we say that there is a religious revival? There are new forms of Jewish religious life, but I argue that the revival is more cultural than religious in that more Jews are prepared to acknowl…
Coming Out
To be a Jew in communist Hungary between 1948-1989 was to be a person carrying a stigma. Jewish identity was suppressed in public and in many cases in private. Since the demise of the communist regime Hungarian Jews have begun to proclaim their identity publicly. In short Jews are “coming out”. In this paper I describe the ways in which Jewish identity is expressed and I analyse the factors, both internal and external that have facilitated such e…
Youth and the state in Hungary
The multi‐cultural challenge in Israel – Edited by Avi Sagi & Ohad Nachtomy
Jewish Studies at the Crossroads of Anthropology and History
This book is the product of one year's discussions among scholars, which took place in 2003–2004 at the Herbert D. Katz Centre for Advanced Judaic Studies in the University of Pennsylvania. The con
Jewish Families by JonathanBoyarin. Vol. 4New Brunswick
Reflections of an Atheist Jew
I was not born nor raised an atheist Jew. My identity was formed by various factors among them family background; geographical migration; British education; secular Zionism; anthropological study and research. These factors were the precipitates of two earlier modern revolutions that transformed the modern world and that affected both Jews and non-Jews, namely the French Revolution which was political, and the Industrial Revolution which was econ…
Sociology (16 works) · History (11 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · History (8 works) · Jewish Identity and Society (8 works) · Judaism (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Politics (7 works)