Contemporary Jewries : convergence and divergence / edited by Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Yosef Gorny, and Yaacov Roʾi.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-380) and index.

Klal Yisrael : from Halakha to history / Yosef Gorny -- Is the Jewish diaspora unique? / Gabriel Sheffer -- World Jewish population at the dawn of the 21th century / Sergio Della Pergola -- The meaning of Jewish-Israeli identity / David Ohana -- Israel and its covenant : religious-Zionist thought / Shalom Ratzabi -- Israeli-Jewish identities / Eliezer Ben-Rafael -- The significance of Israel in modern Jewish identities / Ruth Gavison -- Between two Zions / Henry L. Feingold -- Unraveling the ethnoreligious package / Charles Liebman -- Identity and identification of Jewish baby boomers / Chaim I. Waxman -- Jewish continuity from the Reform-Judaism perspective / Ofer Shiff -- Soviet Jewry from identification to identity / Yaacov Roʾi -- The meanings of Jewishness in Russia and Ukraine / Zvi Gitelman -- Russian-Jewish ethnicity : Israel and Russia compared / Vladimir Khanin -- The dilemma of Russian-born adolescents in Israel / Marina Niznick -- The changing French Jewish identity / Michel Wieviorka -- Is the French model in decline? / Pierre Birnbaum -- To be Jewish in Belgium these days / Maurice Konopnicki -- Israel in Jewish communal life : South America / Yosef Goldstein -- Israel and Argentine Jews : complementary or conflicting? / Raanan Rein -- Argentine Jewry in a period of economic crisis / Natan Lerner -- The space and dilemmas of contemporary Jewish identities / Eliezer Ben-Rafael.