NDLI: The Importance of a Navigational Perspective in the Study of Contemporary American Jews: Response to the Sklare Lecture

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Author	Horowitz, Bethamie
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	One fissure in the social scientific study of contemporary American Jews involves how scholars understand the relationship between the individual and the shared or social realm. In this essay I contrast a more normative, tradition-oriented approach to studying American Jews and their Jewishness exemplified by Sylvia Barack Fishman to the person-centered, meaning-oriented, navigational approach I employ. Our contrasting approaches reflect different views about what it means to “transmit Jewish culture to the next generation.” The nature of the interface between individuals and the social context has changed in some profound ways. Most notably Jewish individuals are less tethered by the kinds of external constraints regarding Jewishness that functioned in the past, leaving them with more latitude. Furthermore, in these new circumstances, the social terrain itself has changed, resulting in an array of options and possibilities that is wider, and also less successfully characterized by nomenclature like “Jewish” and “American” that many employ. So what does it mean to speak about “Jewish cultural transmission” when the “Jewishness” that is to be conveyed has changed, not to speak of the processes and possibilities of social learning? Here I describe a navigational perspective that is able to encompass both the moves of individuals and the changing terrain and array of opportunities that have emerged.
Starting Page	137
Ending Page	145
Page Count	9
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01471694
Journal	Contemporary Jewry
Volume Number	35
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	18765165
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2015-06-23
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Jewish Americans Identity Ethnicity Cultural transmission Boundaries Social integration Culture - Religion Anthropology Religious Studies Social Sciences Humanities
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Religious Studies History Anthropology Cultural Studies

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