After the Rescue Jewish Identity and Community in Contemporary Denmark

Name: After the Rescue Jewish Identity and Community in Contemporary Denmark
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ISBN: 9781403962706

ISBN-10: 1403962707

ISBN-13: 9781403962706

Edition: 2003 (Revised)

Authors: Andrew Buckser

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In October of 1943, the Danish resistance rescued almost all of the Jews in Copenhagen from roundups by the occupying Nazis. In the years since, Jews have become deeply engaged in a Danish culture that presents very few barriers of anti-Semitism or prejudice. This telling ethnographic study 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. Social scientists have long argued that modernity poses challenges to traditional ethnic communities, by breaking down the networks of locality, kinship, religion, and occupation that have held such communities together. For…

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List price: $54.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 5/29/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 271
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.64" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



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