Jewish Revival Inside Out
Remaking Jewishness in a Transnational Age

Daniel Monterescu (Edited by), Rachel Werczberger (Edited by), Asher Biemann (Contributions by), Shaul Magid (Contributions by), Ruth Ellen Gruber (Contributions by), Daniel Monterescu (Contributions by), Sara Zorandy (Contributions by), Geneviève Zubrzycki (Contributions by), Zvi Gitelman (Contributions by), Hannah Tzuberi (Contributions by), Lucine Endelstein (Contributions by), Nissim Leon (Contributions by), Rachel Werczberger (Contributions by), Shlomo Guzmen-Carmeli (Contributions by), Cara Rock-Singer (Contributions by), Michael Paley (Contributions by), Jonathan Boyarin (Contributions by)

9780814349182

Hardback, published 13 December 2022

277 pages, 12 b&w images
22.8 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.363 kg

Against the gloomy forecast of "The Vanishing Diaspora", the end of the second millennium saw the global emergence of a dazzling array of Jewish cultural initiatives, institutional modalities, and individual practices. These "Jewish Revival" and "Jewish Renewal" projects are led by Jewish NGOs and philanthropic organizations, the Orthodox Teshuva (return to the fold) movement and its well-known emissary Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidism, and alternative cultural initiatives that promote what can be termed "lifestyle Judaism." This range between institutionalized revival movements and ephemeral event-driven projects circumscribes a diverse space of creative agency, which calls for a bottom-up empirical analysis of cultural creativity and the re-invention of Jewish tradition worldwide. Indeed, the trope of a "Jewish Renaissance" has become both a descriptive category of an increasingly popular and scholarly discourse across the globe, and a prescriptive model for social action. This volume explores the global transformations of contemporary Jewishness, which give renewed meaning to identity, tradition, and politics in our post secular world.