Jewish survival : the identity problem at the close of the twentieth century / Ernest Krausz, Gitta Tulea, editors.

"This volume is the outcome of the international workshop ... at Bar-Ilan University on the 18th and 19th of March, 1997"--P. ix.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Minimalism or maximalism : Jewish survival at the millennium / Irving Louis Horowitz -- Diaspora-community-tradition paradigms of Jewish identity : a reappraisal / Régine Azria -- Quasi-sectarian religiosity, cultural ethnicity and national identity : convergence and divergence among Hahamei Yisrael / Eliezer Ben-Rafael -- Collective Jewish identity in Israel : towards an irrevocable split? / Eva Etzioni-Halevy -- Building Jewish identity for tomorrow : possible or not? / Samuel C. Heilman -- Judaism and Jewish identity : changing interrelationships and differentiations in the Diaspora and Israel / Stephen Sharot -- On theory and methods in the study of Jewish identity / Stuart Schoenfeld -- Jewish identity and survival in contemporary society : the evidence from Jewish humor / Christie Davies -- Jewish identity in the twenty-first century / Solomon Poll -- Jews in Israel and the United States : diverging identities / Naftali Rothenberg -- Hasidic Jews : social boundaries and institutional development as mechanisms of identity control / William Shaffir -- Naming norms and identity choices in Israel / Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi -- Tracking demographic assimilation : evidence from Canada's major cities / Leo Davids -- Structure and determinants of Jewish identity in the United Kingdom / Stephen H. Miller -- Identity quest among Russian Jews of the 1990s : before and after emigration / Larissa I. Remennick -- Concluding remarks : patterns of Jewish identity / Ernest Krausz and Gitta Tulea.