Jewish identity is the objective or subjective sense of perceiving oneself as a Jew and as relating to being Jewish. It encompasses elements of nationhood...

basic question about Jewish identity and considerations of Jewish self-identification. The question pertains to ideas about Jewish personhood, which have...

Jewish identity requires that both parents be Jewish, and not only the father. They argue that only patrilineal descent can transmit Jewish identity on...

dietary prohibitions, became defining cultural markers of Jewish identity, distinguishing Jewish communities from surrounding populations. The Bible also...

have maintained their sense of Jewish history, identity and culture. In the following millennia, Jewish diaspora communities coalesced into three major...

watershed moment, the elimination of the symbolic centre of Judaism and Jewish identity motivated many Jews to formulate a new self-definition and adjust their...

advocates of Zionism sought to reformulate conceptions of Jewishness in terms of racial identity and the "race science" of the time. They believed that this...

Jewish secularism (Hebrew: יהדות חילונית) refers to secularism in a Jewish context, denoting the definition of Jewish identity with little or no attention...

a contradiction because Jewish identity encompasses not only religious components but also ethnic and cultural ones. Jewish law's emphasis on descent...

Liberalism, and the Question of Jewish Identity. New Haven: Yale University Press 1997. ISBN 0300066805 Israeli Foreign Policy and the Jewish Question...