After the Rescue: Jewish Identity and Community in Contemporary Denmark

ISBN-13: 9781349386956 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 271 str.

Andrew Buckser; A. Buckser

Opis

In October of 1943, the Danish resistance rescued almost all of the Jews in Copenhagen from roundups by the occupying Nazis. This book explores the questions that such inclusion raises for the Danish Jews, and what their answers can tell us about the meaning of religion, ethnicity and community in modern society.

Recenzje

'[C]omprehensive, nuanced, and beautifully written. Buckser skillfully weaves data from historical sources with rich ethnography and succeeds in depicting [the Jewish community of Denmark] sensitively and as objectively as is humanly possible. In doing so he provides valuable guidance for how to conduct research when challenged by enormous scale and social complexity, conditions common to late modern urban society'. - Leonard Plotnicov, Professor of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, and Editor of Ethnology

Spis treści

Introduction: Ethnicity and Culture in Late Modernity The Community in Time and Space The Religious World: Faith and Ritual Practice in Jewish Copenhagen The Communal World: Jewish Subgroups in Copenhagen The Social World: The Life and Politics of the Formal Jewish Community The Larger World: Relations with the Jewish Community Outside of Denmark The Danish World: Jews in the Danish Mind The World of the Past: Danish Jewish History and the Rescue of 1943 Conclusion: Jewishness and the Meaning of Community in Contemporary Denmark

O autorze

ANDREW BUCKSER is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Purdue University. He is the author of a number of works on religion and culture in northern Europe, including Communities of Faith: Sectarianism, Identity, and Social Change on a Danish Island (1996). Dr. Buckser received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1993, and he has conducted extensive fieldwork in Western Jutland and Copenhagen.