The Decline of the Diaspora Jewish Nation

Boundaries, Content, and Jewish Identity

Bibliographic Data

ID2756796
AuthorsZvi Gitelman (corresponding author)
Year1998
Volume4
Issue2
Pages112-132
Publication date1998-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJewish Social Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-6704 • E-ISSN: 1527-2028
PublisherIndiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2979/jss.1998.4.2.112
OpenAlexW2054605514
LanguageEN
Citations received9

Jewish (and, probably, a Palestinian Arab) nation in Israel, but it did not create a world-wide Jewish nation. Jews in the Diaspora remain an ethnic group but one that is eroding because its content is diminishing and its boundaries are blurring. Thin culture and symbolic ethnicity are replacing thick culture for most Jews. Therefore, the state that was supposed to be created by the nation is being called upon to preserve or re-create the nation, if only in order to maintain the reservoir from which future immigrants to the Jewish state could be drawn

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Content (measure theory · Diaspora · Identity (music · Jewish identity · Judaism · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Jewish Identity and Society · Mathematics · Philosophy · Religious studies · Religious Studies

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