scholarly journals Tożsamość żydowska na pograniczu kultur i narodów

2018 ◽  
pp. 165-178
Author(s):  
Irmina Jaśkowiak
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Jewish Identity ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Western World ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Anti Semitism

Identity construction is one of the fundamental human needs. The process takes place in two areas simultaneously: internal, self-reflexive and external, associated with a sense of belonging to a particular group. The Jews, until the beginning of the nineteenth century constituted quite uniform society voluntarily separating themselves from other communities. As a result of emancipation and assimilation processes, various influences affect their identity. As a consequence the Jews faced two difficulties. The first one was the dilemma between own nation and territorial homeland while the other was the progressing deep internal divisions. At present Jewish identity is most of all national and ethnical identity strongly reinforced by historical memory and fight with anti-Semitism. After the period of the twentieth century crisis and in the light of the western world secularization it has become also cultural identity.Identity construction is one of the fundamental human needs. Theprocess takes place in two areas simultaneously: internal, self-reflexiveand external, associated with a sense of belonging to a particulargroup. The Jews, until the beginning of the nineteenth century constitutedquite uniform society voluntarily separating themselves fromother communities. As a result of emancipation and assimilation processes,various influences affect their identity. As a consequence theJews faced two difficulties. The first one was the dilemma betweenown nation and territorial homeland while the other was the progressingdeep internal divisions. At present Jewish identity is most of allnational and ethnical identity strongly reinforced by historical memoryand fight with anti-Semitism. After the period of the twentieth centurycrisis and in the light of the western world secularization it hasbecome also cultural identity.

‘Jewish Musicians are the Crowning Achievements of Foreign Nations’

2020 ◽  
pp. 309-320
Author(s):  
Julia Riegel
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Jewish Identity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Singing Voice ◽  
Interwar Poland ◽  
The One ◽  
Jewish Composers

This chapter discusses the treatment of the Jewish identity of various composers by the Yiddish folklorist and music critic, Menachem Kipnis. It describes Kipnis as a small, energetic man with a soft but beautiful singing voice and considered one of the most popular Jewish folklorists of interwar Poland. It also looks into Kipnis' book World-Famous Jewish Musicians, a collection of biographies of nineteenth-century composers with a Jewish background. The chapter examines the contradictions and idiosyncrasies of World-Famous Jewish Musicians compared with Kipnis's other works. It seeks to understand the balance Kipnis struck between praise for Jewish composers and quasi-nationalist emphasis on their Jewishness on the one hand, and his work as a folklorist in Poland, collecting songs from traditional, Yiddish-speaking Jews on the other.

The Question of Assimilation in French Jewish Historiography

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-45
Author(s):  
Maurice Samuels
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Jewish Identity ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Jewish Historiography ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Abstract This article examines one of the defining features of French Jewish historiography: the debate over assimilation. Beginning with Jewish nationalist historians in the late nineteenth century, French Jews were accused of having gladly renounced their Jewish identity to partake of the benefits of emancipation. Twentieth-century historians writing in the wake of Hannah Arendt offered a similar condemnation of the “politics of assimilation.” At the end of the twentieth century, however, historians began to question this consensus, suggesting that French Jews sought out distinct ways of maintaining their religious and cultural identity. Ultimately, this article argues that the debate reflects a conflict over ideological frameworks used to interpret Jewish modernity. Cet article examine le débat sur l'assimilation qui traverse l'historiographie du judaïsme français. Selon les historiens nationalistes juifs de la fin du dix-neuvième siècle, les juifs français auraient renoncé volontairement à leur identité juive afin de jouir des bienfaits de leur émancipation. Les historiens du vingtième siècle écrivant dans la lignée d'Hannah Arendt ont été également prompts à critiquer cette « politique de l'assimilation ». Pourtant, à la fin du vingtième siècle, certains historiens ont commencé à mettre en doute ce consensus, soulignant les divers moyens par lesquels les juifs auraient essayé de conserver leur identité religieuse et culturelle tout en devenant des citoyens français. En fin de compte, cet article suggère que c'est le cadre idéologique qui produit les différences d'opinion dans ce débat sur la modernité juive.

scholarly journals The Shared Dream of the Americas: An Introduction to Americanity

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1,2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrien Guyot
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Shed Light

While the cultural identities of Latin America, Québec and the Antilles have long been forged around a single reference, namely to their European past, they currently show signs of rupture and heterogeneity. Thinkers from Québec (Sherry Simon, Pierre Nepveu, Gérard Bouchard), the Antilles (Glissant, Chamoiseau, Confiant) and Brazil (Bernd) have been revisiting the concepts of origin and space from a completely different perspective. No longer would Europe be the anchor of their totalitarian-shaped cultural identity; the roots and origins of this identity construction would have to be found elsewhere, in a new environment perhaps, embracing the modernity and diversity that are celebrated in the concepts of hybridity, transculturalism, creolization, which all slowly lead to a mythical crossroads: America.However, the establishment of a symbolic relation with the American territory remains somewhat problematic as the concept of Americanity relies on diverse discourses which can be contradictory at times. In this essay, I aim to shed light on the trendy concept that Americanity has become. On the one hand, I will point out the ambiguity that surrounds the concept, and on the other hand, I will briefly explain how the different perspectives in the reappropriation of the American space could lead to the establishment of America as a shared elsewhere.

scholarly journals LA IDENTIDAD CULTURAL EN LOS LÍDERES DEL FUTURO

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-114
Author(s):  
Rosa Cecibel Varas Giler ◽  
Sara Esther Aucapiña Sandoval ◽  
Mónica Ruth Ortiz David
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
The Past ◽  
Identidad Cultural ◽  
Education School ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Para Determinar

Este documento trae al análisis el tema de identidad cultural en estudiantes de quinto, sexto y séptimo año de la Escuela de Educación Básica “Líderes del Futuro”, ubicada en el Cantón Valencia, Provincia de Los Ríos, con respecto a la ciudad del mismo nombre, conocida además como “La Flor de Los Ríos”,  una de las más pujantes ciudades agrícolas con una identidad histórica relevante para el país. Se utilizó un enfoque mixto: cualitativo y cuantitativo para determinar a través de cuestionarios la respuesta de 9 docentes y 30 estudiantes a fin de determinar cuán arraigada está la identidad de los alumnos con respecto a su Cantón, qué conocen de su historia, de sus costumbres y tradiciones. Además, se entrevistó a un funcionario del Departamento de Cultura del I. Municipio de Valencia, con la intensión de confrontar los datos proporcionados por docentes y estudiantes. El análisis de los datos permitió apreciar que si bien los estudiantes y docentes conocen los aspectos principales del Cantón, falta todavía precisar esta información según lo indicado por el funcionario municipal; a fin de afianzar tradiciones y valores que fortalezcan la identidad cultural. Finalmente se concluyó que debe haber mayor difusión a los proyectos que la I. Municipalidad auspicia, a través de un proyecto mediante el cual se rescate, estudie y, promocione los valores culturales más auténticos y originales de la localidad; fomentar el respeto hacia las pasadas generaciones como pilar fundamental de las nuevas generaciones;  preservar la memoria histórica fomentando el sentido de pertenencia auténtico; y resaltar el orgullo de ser quienes somos y hacia a dónde nos dirigimos.  Palabras claves: Identidad cultural, costumbres, pertenencia, historia. ABSTRACT This document made an analysis on what knowledge students of fifth, sixth and seventh year of Basic Education School called “Líderes del Futuro”, located in Valencia Canton, Los Ríos Province, have on cultural identity. Valencia is one of the most vibrant Ecuadorian cities, known as "La Flor de Los Ríos”. This research used a mixed qualitative and quantitative approach to determine through questionnaires the responses of 9 teachers and 30 students on what students know about their Canton, what they know of its history, its customs and its traditions. In addition, an interview with a staff member of the department of culture of the I. Municipality of Valencia was conducted; his answer was confronted with the data provided by teachers and students. The analysis of the data showed that while students and teachers know the main aspects of the Canton, still needed to clarify this statement as indicated by the municipal official to enhance traditions and values that strengthen the cultural identity. Finally, it was concluded that there should be greater dissemination campaign of the projects that I. Municipality hosts to rescue, to study, and to promote the more authentic and original cultural values of the locality; respecting the past generations as a fundamental pillar of the new generations; and to preserve the historical memory by fostering a sense of belonging; and highlight the pride of being who students of “Líderes del Futuro”’ school are and where they are going to.

Anti-Semitism and Orthodoxy

2021 ◽  
Vol 155 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-81
Author(s):  
Eliyahu Stern
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Jewish Identity ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Race And Religion ◽  
The Way

This article explores the way theories of race and religion feature in the construction of Jewish identity and anti-Semitism. It focuses on the writings of the nineteenth-century French intellectual Ernest Renan and the leading Eastern European Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehudah Berlin.

Lombroso's Jewish identity and its implications for criminology

2011 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Knepper
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Jewish Identity ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
Jewish Question ◽  
Jewish Tradition ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Positivist Science ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Recovering Lombroso's Jewish identity is important for understanding the context in which he lived and worked. Italian statehood and positivist science had particular meaning relative to Jewish emancipation. Lombroso turned his back on Judaism and Jewish tradition, but interacted over the years with a circle of Jewish colleagues. Salvatore Ottolenghi, Pauline Tarnowsky, Helen Zimmern, Max Nordau and Jean Finot influenced his professional life in more than one way, as did members of his family, such as David Levi. Lombroso contributed to the defence of Jews from the surge of anti-Semitism in the late nineteenth century and he even managed a measure of critical analysis in his discussion of Jews and crime. Although he failed to overcome the prejudices and misconceptions at the centre of his outlook, the Lombroso who engaged ‘the Jewish question’ emerges as a more complicated and conflicted character than the Lombroso associated with ‘the criminal man’.

Sensuous Pagans and Righteous Jews: Changing Concepts of Jewish Identity in Ernest Bloch's Jézabel and Schelomo

2001 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 439-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klára Móricz
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Identity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Musical Analysis ◽  
Musical Aesthetics ◽  
Musical Style ◽  
Ernest Bloch ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Jewish Music ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
The One

Abstract Disappointed in the reception of his opera Macbeth and torn between what he considered opposing French and German musical aesthetics, Ernest Bloch, together with his librettist and friend Edmond Fleg, turned to Jewish topics under the influence of another friend, the anti-Semite Robert Godet. Relying on archival documents and musical analysis, this article traces the development of Bloch's assumed Jewish identity from his projected opera Jézabel through his violoncello rhapsody Schelomo. Although both works display similar stylistic characteristics, the change between what is conceived as “Jewish” in the one and the other is significant. In Jézabel Bloch depicted an imaginary pure world of the Jews with diatonic, simple melodies and painted the pagan Jezebel with the lush chromaticism associated with Oriental sensuality; in Schelomo he interpreted the chromatic, augmented-second-ridden style as expressive of Jewishness. Schelomo thus fulfilled the expectations of Bloch's audiences by playing into stereotypes of Jewish music. Ironically then, the anti-Semitism that was a major factor in driving Bloch to find a particularly Jewish voice also inspired the corroboration of a musical style that, like the society around him, marked Jews as others.

Narratives of popular music heritage and cultural identity: The affordances and constraints of popular music memories

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arno van der Hoeven
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Narrative Approaches ◽  
The Past ◽  
Local Diversity ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
The Way

This article examines the relationship between popular music, memory and cultural identity. It draws upon narrative approaches to memory and identity in order to explore how engagement with music from the past can both afford and constrain identity construction. On the basis of in-depth interviews with, among others, heritage practitioners and audience members, I discuss how practices in the cultural and heritage industries affect the way in which popular music’s past is narrated. Although those narratives offer a sense of belonging and identity through their connection to experiences of time and place, there are also factors that compromise this potential. The article discusses limits to the accuracy of memories and impediments to representations of local diversity. Furthermore, I argue that copyright regulation affects which stories about popular music’s past can be told.

The Costumbrismo and Ideas of Juan de Zabaleta

PMLA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 81 (7) ◽  
pp. 512-520
Author(s):  
James R. Stevens
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
The Other ◽  
Moral Value ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Different Ages

In many respects Juan de Zabaleta seems close to the costumbrismo of the nineteenth century: the lack of narrative elements, the detailed description, the use of conversation in the presentation of types and as part of scenes rather than for narrative purposes, the urbanity of his style, the directness of his vision. The mental atmosphere of Zabaleta, on the other hand, is completely different: the curious time-lessness of his description, contrasted with the notion of transition; his choice of subjects for their moral value, contrasted with the search for the typical and picturesque; the sense of belonging to an ordered universe where laws may be broken but never repealed, contrasted with the irony of the later period where sometimes virtue is its own punishment. The list could be endless, for we are as much contrasting different ages as individual writers.

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