Imagining Exodus for Israel-Palestine: Reading the Secular and the Sacred, Diaspora and Homeland, in Edward Said and David Grossman by Anna Hartnell

“…And yet through an exploration of the writings of David Grossman, whose construction of Jewish identity is envisaged through the regulating, competing and collaborating tropes of Zionism and Diaspora, I argue that this position is crucial for the elaboration of Israeli identity. …”
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The Representation of Jewishness in the Work of Viktor Fischl by Martina Halamová

“…In his postwar prose output Fischl first of all thematised the search for an obliterated Jewish identity (Píseň o lítosti — Song of Pity), and in later texts (Jeruzalémský triptych — Jerusalem Triptych) he then focused on a presentation of the Holocaust as a memento of the Jews, which was intended to refer not only to Jewish victims, but rather to impel us all to search for the traditional values of humanity. …”
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Imagining Exodus for Israel-Palestine: Reading the Secular and the Sacred, Diaspora and Homeland, in Edward Said and David Grossman by Anna Hartnell

“…And yet through an exploration of the writings of David Grossman, whose construction of Jewish identity is envisaged through the regulating, competing and collaborating tropes of Zionism and Diaspora, I argue that this position is crucial for the elaboration of Israeli identity. …”
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“Born into a Broken World:” The Holocaust Carrier by Susan Jacobowitz

“… In this article, a second-generation author explores the conflicts and challenges of post-war Jewish identity and the inheritance from her father, through the medium of literature by and about sons and daughters of Holocaust survivors. …”
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Emigrare o restare in Germania? Tre differenti risposte di autrici ebree tedesche di seconda generazione (Barbara Honigmann, Lea Fleischmann, Esther Dischereit) by Alessandro Costazza

“…This discovery compels Fleischmann to leave Germany and seek in Israel and eventually in the religion of her fathers a Jewish identity. Esther Dischereit decides on the contrary to perform in Germany her "exercises to be Jewish", assuming the role of critical conscience of German society. …”
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Andrés Rivera recita su kaddish by Saúl Sosnowski

“…Almost like in a fragmented apocryphal biography, we find here a sort of dialectic cut between the various components of someone who is aware of and demands his legitimate nationality, and whose Jewish identity is the mark of an imposed difference.…”
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Aṣlak eh ? De juif en Égypte à Juif d’Égypte by Michèle Baussant

“…Its main focus is to understand the different links with Egypt and an Egyptian Jewish identity, taking into account the diversity of experiences and ties with the home country and their connection to memory. …”
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Evolution/Revolution: For an anthropology of Torah by Alberto Castaldini

“…For this reason the Torah can be seen as the description of the historical-evolutionary path of the Jewish people and society, as well as of the construction of Jewish identity. In the difficult living conditions of the Jews along the history, the Torah was able to direct the social and cultural mechanisms imposed by the need to adapt to foreigner religious and political contexts. …”
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O uso da narrativa e da memória no estudo histórico-antropológico das identidades étnicas: o caso da comunidade judaica de Pernambuco by Isabela Andrade de Lima Morais

“…Key words: jewish identity; anthropological history; immigration.…”
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Wellbeing and national identity in three generations of Czech and Slovak Holocaust survivors by Marek Preiss, Marek Preiss, Marek Preiss, Monika Fňašková, Markéta Nečasová, Radek Heissler, Petr Bob, Alice Prokopová, Dita Šamánková, Edel Sanders, Ivan Rektor

“…Holocaust survivors declaring Jewish identity reported lower SWB compared to survivors declaring other than Jewish identity. …”
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Ponar and the will to remember: Holocaust commemorations in Soviet Lithuania by Milda Jakulytė-Vasil

“…The research shows that in spite of the ruling authorities creating significant obstacles for the small Jewish population to hold commemorations and over the course of the various physical transformations of Ponar, the site remained one of the most significant and most symbolic for Jewish identity and Jewish resistance to state policies.…”
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Legal hermeneutics and the tradition underlying the Septuagint by Joosten, J

“…The study of Septuagint offers essential insights in ancient Judaism and its efforts to formulate Jewish identity within a non-Jewish surrounding culture. …”

“Our Life Was Divided in Many Facets”:Anna Foa Yona, an Anti-Fascist Jewish Refugee in Wartime United States by Stefano Luconi

“…The article uses her experience as a case study for the intertwinement between political exile and economic migration, in addition to shedding light on Jewish identity in exile.…”
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Barbaric Jewishness: Resistance to anti-Semitism and Judeo-Christianity by Yonathan Listik

“…This article will argue that Boyarin and Slabodsky present an interesting approach to this dilemma while exploring the way Jewish identity could serve as a counter hegemonic political position.…”
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Strategie topo-biograficzne Piotra Pazińskiego by Agnieszka Czyżak

“…In his prose the author is always searching for traces of Jewish identity and memory of the war-time in contemporary Warsaw (and its surroundings). …”
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German Jews and the Great War: Gustav Landauer’s and Fritz Mauthner’s Friendship during Times of War by Carsten Schapkow

“…Mauthner’s and Landauer’s correspondence in wartime stimulated debate about the war, on the one hand, and German and Jewish identity, on the other. Most significantly, both intellectuals perceived in Germany, as a place of culture, a profound transformation. …”
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Presencia de lo judío en la poesía argentina contemporánea by Geneviève Fabry

“…What is at stake is to be able to determine which facets of the Jewish identity this poetry embodies : either religious, cultural or sensible ones ? …”
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Crucified with the Brother from Galilee: Symbol of the Cross in Modernist Yiddish Imagination by Freya Dasgupta

“…This article proposes to examine, with special focus on poetry, how the crucified Jesus not only became a space of hybridity for Yiddish literary artists to formulate modern Jewish identity and culture but also the medium through which to articulate Jewish suffering in a language that resonated with the oppressors. …”
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Paul Celan in Translation: "Du sei wie du" by John Felstiner

“…This essay exposes a process of translating "Du sei wie du" (1970), which perhaps more than any other poem by Celan, at once solicits and defies translation, moving as it does from modern to medieval German, and closing with Hebrew words from Isaiah— a messianic imperative that shows Celan verging as ever on his Jewish identity.…”
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Rachel Lichtenstein’s Narrative Mosaics by Phyllis Lassner

“…Rachel Lichtenstein’s books, along with her multimedia art, represent her explorations of her British Jewish identity and her place in British Jewish culture as an imaginative odyssey. …”
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