Imaginary Jews and True Confessions: Ethnicity, Lyricism, and John Berryman's <em>Dream Songs</em> by Andrew S. Gross

“…More recent critics see the figure as a misappropriation of Jewish identity. Berryman, however, did not want to pass himself off as Jewish; he invented the figure to expose the anti-Semitism of Eliot and Pound. …”
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“Out of Germany”: Flossenbürg Concentration Camp, Jakub’s World (2005), and the Commemoration of the Holocaust in the United States by Klara Stephanie Szlezák

“…Reading the book against the backdrop of ongoing debates about Holocaust memory in the U.S., this essay explores structural and plot elements in the book that complicate both a Jewish identity derived from victimhood and the notion of liberation as the moment of ultimate redemption. …”
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Cultivating a Jewish Eco- Education Framework: The Toronto Heschel School’s Teaching and Learning Garden by Nadine Ijaz, Paige Mawson

“…The resulting educational outcomes appear at once universally applicable while specifically relevant to the Jewish identities of learners.…”
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The Moscow Karaite Community of the Twentieth Century (According to the Memoirs Recorded in the 1990S From the Old-Time Karaites of Moscow) by Sergei S. Mikhailov

“…Initially, the Russian (Crimean and Lithuanian) Karaites considered themselves part of the Jewish world, however, due to certain political reasons, they began to move away from Jewish identity, presenting themselves as a separate ethnic group professing an independent religion. …”
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Antisemitism on Twitter: Collective Efficacy and the Role of Community Organisations in Challenging Online Hate Speech by Sefa Ozalp, Matthew L. Williams, Pete Burnap, Han Liu, Mohamed Mostafa

“…In this article, we conduct a comprehensive study of online antagonistic content related to Jewish identity posted on Twitter between October 2015 and October 2016 by UK-based users. …”
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RUSSIAN-ISRAELI RELATIONS: THE ROLE OF THE RUSSIAN-SPEAKING COMMUNITY OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL by Tatiana Dmitrievna Moshkova

“…The author considers such aspects of the topic as: the differences of the “Great Aliyah” of the 1990’s from the first wave of repatriation of the 1970’s and the factors that formed the unique “Russian-Jewish” identity among the representatives of the “Russian street”, the political and economic potential of “Russian Israel”, the main areas of cooperation between the two states and the role of the “Russian” community in this cooperation. …”
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Imaginary Jews and True Confessions: Ethnicity, Lyricism, and John Berryman's &lt;em&gt;Dream Songs&lt;/em&gt; by Andrew S. Gross

“…More recent critics see the figure as a misappropriation of Jewish identity. Berryman, however, did not want to pass himself off as Jewish; he invented the figure to expose the anti-Semitism of Eliot and Pound. …”
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The IDF Military Rabbi: Between a “Kohen Anointed for War” and a “Religious Services Provider” by Aharon (roni) Kampinsky

“…The article aims to show that the Military Rabbinate has not been immune to the struggle over the collective Jewish identity of the State of Israel, and its underlying processes reflect the complexity and diversity of Israeli society.…”
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Jewish postmodern writers and national identity by Lončar-Vujnović Mirjana N.

“…Recent disputations in Jewish Knesset, about who can be called a Jew, summarize all the questions of Jewish origins and the question above all questions - what essentially determines the essence of Jewish identity in relation to other nations? We find two types of classification which relate to Jewish writers: 1. by the language; 2. by the topic. …”
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A “Ghoulish Jamboree”: The Not-So-Jewish Jewish Funeral of Mob Boss Bessie Starkman by Monda Halpern

“…Focused on the couple’s criminality and Starkman’s 1930 murder, scholars have generally sidestepped exploration of her Jewish identity and background. Indeed, in 2005, author Robin Rowland declared simply that when the wife and mother ran off with the Italian Catholic Perri, she “abandoned her husband, children, and Jewish faith”; almost every subsequent source on Starkman has quoted or paraphrased this assertion. …”
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Between Tikkun Olam and Self-Defense: Young Jewish Americans Debate the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Ella Ben Hagai, Eileen L. Zurbriggen

“…Some Jewish students who had a strong sense of their Jewish identity and grounded their Judaism in principles of social justice exhibited a greater openness to the Palestinian narrative of the conflict. …”
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The National, the Diasporic, and the Canonical: The Place of Diasporic Imagery in the Canon of Israeli National Art by Noa Avron Barak

“…Under their arrival in Palestine, however, the diasporic Jewish identities of these immigrants (many of whom were not initially Zionists) clashed with the Zionist&#8722;Jewish identity that was hegemonic in the nascent field of Israeli art. …”
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Le Yiddishland newyorkais: la mémoire enracinée (The Yiddishland New Yorker: the Ingrained Memory) by Annie Ousset-Krief

“…Today, though most Jews left the Lower East Side long ago, there remain a few synagogues and shops that have become the symbols of an everlasting Jewish identity, traces of a cherished past, marked by hardship but also the joy of having finally found freedom after centuries of persecution. …”
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Trauma, Diasporic Consciousness, and Ethics in Nicole Krauss’s <i>Forest Dark</i> by Tiasa Bal, Gurumurthy Neelakantan

“…If Jules and Nicole do not cross paths, it still remains that their Jewish identities stem from the originary tragedy of the Holocaust. …”
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Charles Swann e Athos Fadigati: la figura dell'ebreo e dell'innamorato in Proust e Bassani by Aleksandra Schymalla

“…Słowa kluczowe: Marcel Proust, Giorgio Bassani, Charles Swann, Żyd, kochanek, homoseksualista,sprawa Dreyfusa   Charles Swann and Athos Fadigati: the figure of the Jew and the lover in Proust and Bassani Abstract The aim of the research is to find a link between Recherche of Marcel Proust and GiorgioBassani’s Novel of Ferrara, analyzing the way both of them construct the figure of a Jew, inthe light of Giacomo Debenedetti’s and Hannah Arendt’s position related to Jewish identity.Giorgio Bassani’s novel The Gold Rimmed Spectacles has been chosen because Athos Fadigati,a homosexual, and Charles Swann, a Juif mondain, demonstrate some similarities in termsof sensitivity and their social position. …”
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The legacy of muscular Judaism: Jewish-Israeli identity through sport by Hancock, SP

“…The final ethnographic chapter (6) looks beyond Israel’s borders, adopting the perspective of the state to see how athletes legitimise and broker Jewish identity on an international scale.</p> <p>Ultimately, I find that, akin to Nordau’s concept of muscular Judaism, sport continues to be productive for negotiating identity within Israel. …”

Identity and equality by Clark, M

“…Beginning with Lionel de Rothschild's entry into Parliament in 1858 and concluding with the Anglo-Jewish Exhibition's encomium to Jewish life of 1887, this era witnessed the reconceptualisation of Anglo-Jewish identity as the minority completely entered British society after centuries of marginalisation. …”

The socio-spatial boundaries of an ‘invisible’ minority: a quantitative (re)appraisal of Britain’s Jewish population by Graham, D, David J Graham

“…It presents a critical exploration of the dual ethnic and religious components of Jewish identity, arguing that this ‘White’ group has become ethnically ‘invisible’ in British identity politics and, as a consequence, is largely overlooked. …”

Fútbol, etnicidad y otredad: el Club Atlético Atlanta de Buenos Aires by Raanan Rein

“…For the next generation, it was a way of maintaining ethnic Jewish identity, while for the third it has become a family tradition.…”
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Yiddish and Judeo-Spanish as Determinants of Identity: As Illustrated in the Jewish Press of the First Half of the Twentieth Century by Izabela Olszewska, Aleksandra Twardowska

“…On the one hand – an image of the languages as determinants of Jewish identity. Touching on this theme, the authors of the paper also try to highlight the images of Yiddish and Judeo-Spanish and as determinants in a narrower sense – of the Sephardi/Ashkenazi identity in that period. …”
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