Jewish identity in the early 21^st-century: the fissures in the integration paradigm.

JEWISH identity; JEWISH history; SOCIAL change; ACCULTURATION; CULTURAL identity

The social and cultural integration of the Jews into Western society was a central paradigm of modern Jewry. Presently, ideological changes in sectors of 'progressive' Western society regarding the Jewish state and the Jews, as well as political and cultural tendencies in Israel, are unsettling the parameters of that paradigm, bringing up new tensions between non-Jews and Jews and changing Jewish profiles. Such multifaceted developments should be understood in the framework of the broader tendencies in Jewish history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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