{"title":"IN MEMORIAM: His Honour Judge Israel Finestein","authors":"G. Alderman","doi":"10.5750/JJSOC.V51I1.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5750/JJSOC.V51I1.7","url":null,"abstract":"The death has occurred of His Honour Judge Israel Finestein, QC, who as well as being an avid supporter of the Jewish Journal of Sociology was a frequent contributor to its Book Reviews section.","PeriodicalId":143029,"journal":{"name":"The Jewish Journal of Sociology","volume":"118 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132242904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"HASSIDIM CONFRONTING MODERNITY","authors":"W. Shaffir","doi":"10.5750/JJSOC.V49I1.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5750/JJSOC.V49I1.23","url":null,"abstract":"In the late 1960s, I knew virtually nothing about hassidic Jews when I began researching their lifestyle and community organization. But I still vividly recall how I was struck then by their distinctive presence along the Park Avenue area in the Mile End district of Montreal. Many of my peers mockingly referred to them as the ‘Park Avenue White Sox’ (after the famous Chicago White Sox baseball team) because some of the men in the community wore breeches tied below the knee, so that their white-stockinged calves were visible below their long black coats and slipper-like shoes. Those hassidim not only appeared out of place but, to my surprise, seemed untouched by the secular influences of the wider society.","PeriodicalId":143029,"journal":{"name":"The Jewish Journal of Sociology","volume":"17 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131071305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF NORTH SHIELDS","authors":"H. Pollins","doi":"10.5750/JJSOC.V49I1.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5750/JJSOC.V49I1.25","url":null,"abstract":"There was a time when the Jewish communities of north-east England, in what were the counties of Northumberland and Durham, were numerous and vibrant. There have been large ones in Newcastle upon Tyne, Sunderland, Gateshead, and South Shields and smaller ones at Whitley Bay, Darlington, and Durham; most of them have declined or disappeared. I have chosen to research the history of North Shields, one of the smaller communities, partly because its size makes research manageable, but also because a study may suggest some notions of the development and decay of such congregations. One preliminary point is the fact that the two Jewish communities of North and South Shields were intertwined for many years. This was exemplified by a report in the Jewish Chronicle (JC) in 1874, headed ‘North and South Shields’, which stated: ‘It has been settled that North Shields and South Shields shall henceforth form one united congregation’","PeriodicalId":143029,"journal":{"name":"The Jewish Journal of Sociology","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116767557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SURVEYING THE HAREDIM AS INSIDERS: IDENTITY, OBJECTIVITY AND RESEARCH ETHICS","authors":"David A. Rier, Avraham Schwartzbaum, Chaya Heller","doi":"10.5750/JJSOC.V49I1.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5750/JJSOC.V49I1.24","url":null,"abstract":"In conducting social science research on religion, the religious identity of investigators (or lack of such identity) may pose various challenges to objectivity. This paper is based on our experiences, as haredi (‘ultra-Orthodox’ Jewish) sociologists, in conducting a women’s health survey amongst our own community. It discusses two particular incidents, occurring before and after data-collection, in which our status as insiders became an issue. We discuss how these incidents shaped our evolving views regarding the interplay between identity, objectivity, and research ethics.","PeriodicalId":143029,"journal":{"name":"The Jewish Journal of Sociology","volume":"118 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116350762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ORTHODOX JUDAISM AND CHIEF RABBIS IN BRITAIN","authors":"G. Alderman","doi":"10.5750/JJSOC.V49I1.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5750/JJSOC.V49I1.31","url":null,"abstract":"MIRI J. FREUD -KANDEL , Orthodox Judaism in Britain Since 1913: An Ideology Forsaken, xvi 240 pp., Vallentine Mitchell, London and Portland, OR, 2006, £19.95 (hardback, £45.50). DEREK TAYLOR, British Chief Rabbis 1664–2006, xiv 457 pp., Vallentine Mitchell, London and Portland, OR, 2007, £19.95 (hardback, £45.00). NY study of ‘orthodox Judaism’ treads several minefields. Until well into the nineteenth century there was no such thing: the adjective ‘orthodox’ was adopted and applied to distinguish the Judaism practised (or at least professed) by the majority of European Jews from that professed (or at least practised) by adherents of various ideologies now often referred to as ‘Progressive’ Judaism. Many did not understand the underlying theological meaning of ‘orthodox’. Although we may agree that in this context ‘orthodox’ means ‘traditional’, we need at the same time to acknowledge that there is not, and never has been, a universally accepted body of dogma and deeds which might for the sake of convenience be called ‘orthodox’ Judaism: in truth, that Judaism is a very broad church.","PeriodicalId":143029,"journal":{"name":"The Jewish Journal of Sociology","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127481673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"HASKALAH AND HASSIDISM IN POLAND","authors":"Jacques Gutwirth","doi":"10.5750/jjsoc.v49i1.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5750/jjsoc.v49i1.27","url":null,"abstract":"MARCIN WODZINSKI , Haskalah and Hasidism in the Kingdom of Poland. A History of Conflict (translated by Sarah Cozens with the assistance of Agnieszka Mirowska), xiv 335 pp., The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, Oxford and Portland, OR, 2005, £39.50. This learned volume, competently translated here, was first published in Polish in 2003. The subject had been researched by Raphael Mahler, who published his pioneering study first in Hebrew in 1961; in 1985 the book appeared in English in a slightly modified version as Hasidism and the Jewish Enlightenment: Their Confrontation in Galicia and Poland in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century. A comparison of the two volumes would not be easy because the authors approached the conflict (or confrontation) between the Haskalah (the specifically Jewish movement of the eighteenth-century ‘Enlightenment’) and hassidism from different perspectives. Mahler saw it from a Marxist socio-economic standpoint and interpreted the historical data accordingly. He considered the peculiarities of hassidic behaviour and beliefs — such as the cult of the rebbe or charismatic leader; the position of the tsadik; and the various aspects of hassidic practices. Wodzinski, however, is mainly concerned with the various opponents of hassidism and reports (with many valuable details) on the history of that opposition, on the principal personalities involved, the publications, and the methods of dealing with the Polish authorities. Thus, the reader will gain an understanding of the reality of Polish hassidism through the prism of the various (and often prejudiced) standpoints of the opponents of the movement.","PeriodicalId":143029,"journal":{"name":"The Jewish Journal of Sociology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127370208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Changes in the geographic dispersion and mobility of American Jews 1990-2001","authors":"U. Rebhun, S. Goldstein","doi":"10.5750/JJSOC.V48I2.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5750/JJSOC.V48I2.33","url":null,"abstract":"Cet article utilise les enquetes populationnelles de 1990 et 2000/01 menees aux Etats-Unis, afin d'exposer les changements qui s'y sont produits dans la distribution geographique des Juifs, les types et les niveaux de migration, et les directions de leurs mouvements spatiaux. Si les A. se sont concentres principalement sur une periode de cinq annees, ils portent egalement leur attention sur la documentation relative a une migration a plus long terme, a travers le cycle de vie des enquetes, aussi bien qu'aux caracteristiques metropolitaine/non-metropolitaine des zones de residence et de la residence bilocale. Quelques comparaisons sont faites avec les caracteristiques geographiques de la population totale des Blancs. Les modeles residentiels itinerants sont centraux pour la comprehension de la demographie des Juifs americains et sont donc importants pour les planificateurs communautaires, qui doivent prendre en consideration la taille et la composition des differents electorats potentiels pour organiser les divers services sociaux, culturels et religieux destines aux populations migrantes et non-migrantes.","PeriodicalId":143029,"journal":{"name":"The Jewish Journal of Sociology","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125435224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE RENAISSANCE OF HASSIDISM","authors":"W. Shaffir","doi":"10.5750/JJSOC.V48I2.36","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5750/JJSOC.V48I2.36","url":null,"abstract":"JACQUES GUTWIRTH , The Rebirth of Hasidism: 1945 to the Present Day (translated from the French by Sophie Leighton), vii 198 pp., Free Association Books, London, 2005, £19.95 or $35.00, paperback. Jaques Gutwirth is a veteran ethnographer whose anthropological research on hassidic Jewry is extensive. We first met in the early 1970s when he came to Montreal to study the city’s hassidim. I was then in the midst of my Master’s research on some of the sects in that city and was still comparatively naive about collecting data which would help to generate what C. Geertz identified as ‘thick description’. Gutwirth understood that approach only too well: it was hard not to be impressed by his ability to produce detailed observations after a visit to a hassidic establishment or neighbourhood.","PeriodicalId":143029,"journal":{"name":"The Jewish Journal of Sociology","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125883389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Herbert martin james loewe in Oxford","authors":"H. Pollins","doi":"10.5750/JJSOC.V48I2.34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5750/JJSOC.V48I2.34","url":null,"abstract":"One of the catalogues of the Hartley Library (at the University of Southampton) has the surprising entry: ‘MS 175 Oxford Minister’s Fund Papers, 1913–41’. It is surprising because after Rev. Moses H. Segal (who had become the minister of the Oxford Jewish congregation in 1901) left the city in 1909, there was no resident minister for the next thirty years. 1 The resident Jewish population was tiny, a mere handful of families, and it is unlikely that they could have afforded to pay a minister. It was only after the expansion of the community — because of evacuation from the major cities during the Second World War — that a minister came into residence. It proved to be a temporary appointment and he left in 1948. There has been no resident minister since. However, while the resident Jewish population for the first four decades of the twentieth century was small, the number of undergraduates increased and it was for these students that the ‘Oxford Minister’ was intended.","PeriodicalId":143029,"journal":{"name":"The Jewish Journal of Sociology","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130254591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"J.L. Magnes and the Promotion of Bi-nationalism in Palestine","authors":"Rory Miller","doi":"10.5750/JJSOC.V48I2.35","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5750/JJSOC.V48I2.35","url":null,"abstract":"As hostility to Israel has intensified in the Western world in recent times (especially within the Trade Union movement, academia, intellectual circles, and the political elite) there has been a noticeable increase in the call for a bi-national solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict as a viable alternative to a two-state solution. The Palestinian commentator Ahmad Samih Khalidi explained in a 1998 article in Prospect magazine that bi-nationalism entails an agreed equal sharing of the whole land [of Palestine] between two peoples . . . on the basis of equality between its citizens rather than ethnicity or national/religious origin.","PeriodicalId":143029,"journal":{"name":"The Jewish Journal of Sociology","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115242628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}