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By claiming that becoming Jewish is becoming a religious Jew rather than an ethnic or national Jew, and by trying to impose this idea by the way of keeping the monopoly on conversions to Judaism in Israel and the diaspora, orthodox religious institutions stand up for their idea of collective Jewishness —meaning a collective submitted to the Jewish law. Their purpose is also to fight against what they understand as a reification of Jewish identity in a national or an ethnic identity which heritage wouldn't be a structuring principle anymore, but a would be reduced to some discriminants features.
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AbstractThis paper examines the image of the Russian Jewry in the memoir of Max Lilienthal, a Jewish-German author who explored the Russian Pale of settlement on official mandate in 1839. In so doing, he built a representational space of a persecuted minority in the tsarist empire, a minority already diversified and fragmented, under complex and polarizing pressures to reform (within traditional frames). The many challenges of Jewish modernization under Nicholas I, as understood by Lilienthal, become even more dramatic when compared with a contemporary text of travels in the Russian empire, the famous « La Russie en 1839 » by Astolphe de Custine, a text that gave an iconic representation of the police state in its dealings with minority religious and ethnic groups.
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AbstractThis essay interprets and analyzes in detail the Yiddish versions of great American poems: Poe's "The Raven," Longfellow's "Hiawatha," Whitman's "Song of Myself" and Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." An attempt has been made to relate all cross-linguistic data to cultural and social ideologies like Poetic Professionalism, Americanization, Socialism, Preservation of Ethnic Identity and Personal/Communal Expressiveness. In other words, the main intent of the essay has been to "explicate" a text by reference to its cultural context, whether American or Jewish.
Keywords: invention, nativization, Jewish liberation, melting pot, humanity, invention, nativisation, libération juive, « melting pot », humanité
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Given that at present, more than half of the marriages contracted by Jew in France are mixed, the question “what does it mean to be Jewish?” is of particular importance. When individuals define themselves as Jewish but do not practice, and share their lives with a non-Jew, what do they transmit? My study shows that both partners, Jewish and non Jewish, want to transmit a Judaism that they often call a “cultural Judaism”. They seek to reinvent spaces, symbolic and real, that render their plural identity coherent and allow them to transmit a secularized Judaism to their children. ftis wish to claim a Jewish identity is often linked to the Shoah.
Keywords: Judaïsme, couples mixtes, transmission, mémoire, identité, Judaism, mixed couples, transmission, memory, identity
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In its multiple concentric and often fragmented tales, Charles Maturin's novel Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) explores textual forms involved in the process of assembling authentic (as opposed to feigned or fictive) history. By centering all of the tales on the Wanderer, by arranging the tales in a fractured pattern that alternates oral and written sources authored by different people, and by subverting chronological sequence in presenting the tales as they are discovered and acquired, Maturin offers a group of raw historical materials that have yet to be shaped and polished into a unified history by a single guiding hand. Melmoth the Wanderer thus strips away the polished surface of reflective history to show the underlying difficulties and differences of related primary experiences and accounts. The novel as we have it forms a kind of textual palimpsest, revealing stages and challenges of the historiographical process.