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- Title
Varieties of Authenticity in Contemporary Jewish Identity.
- Authors
Charme, Stuart Z.
- Abstract
This article analyzes some of the historical and cultural roots of the idea of authenticity in Jewish identity, culture and tradition. At the descriptive level, authenticity is often invoked when referring to the Jewish content in a person's life. Contemporary Jews regard Orthodox Judaism as the most authentic representation of the Jewish tradition of the part and Orthodox Jews as the most authentic embodiment of that tradition. In its basic form, the model of associating authentic Jewish identity with the essence of Jewish tradition is rooted in the German romantic idea of volksgeist, or spirit of a people, which treats an ethnic, national or religious group as a distinct species with its own unique cultural outlook to which it tries to remain true.
- Subjects
AUTHENTICITY (Philosophy); JEWISH identity; GROUP identity; ORTHODOX Judaism; TRADITION (Judaism)
- Publication
Jewish Social Studies, 2000, Vol 6, Issue 2, p133
- ISSN
0021-6704
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/jss.2000.0001