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- Title
Traditional Judaism: The Conceptualization of Jewishness in the Lives of American Jewish Post-Boomers.
- Abstract
Post-boomer American Jews pose many challenges to established frameworks for understanding the organization of the American Jewish community. In an analysis of 58 in-depth interviews with post-boomer American Jews, we found a preference for people who described themselves as not religious, and we found a near-total absence of the language of ethnicity. Instead, interviewees volunteered traditionas a replacement for both and as part of a rationale for the elements of Jewish life that compelled them to participate. Rejecting the voluntarism of much baby-boomer religion and the established frameworks of religion and ethnicity, post-boomers' characterizations of their own Judaisms point to the ways in which the social science of American Jews needs to develop a finer, more diverse set of tools for understanding American Jews and the Judaisms they practice.
- Subjects
AMERICAN Jews; SOCIAL sciences; ETHNICITY; JEWISH way of life; JUDAISM
- Publication
Jewish Social Studies, 2017, Vol 23, Issue 1, p134
- ISSN
0021-6704
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2979/jewisocistud.23.1.05