Signs of the Times: Changing Notions of Citizenship, Governance, and Authority as Reflected in Synagogue Constitutions
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27 septembre 2017
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Michael Brown, « Signs of the Times: Changing Notions of Citizenship, Governance, and Authority as Reflected in Synagogue Constitutions », Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press, ID : 10670/1.8vicqh
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Since the 1960s, the norms of citizenship (that is, membership) and governance among Jews in the Diaspora and in Israel have been undergoing substantial transformation. The pace and nature of the change, though, have varied according to local factors and type of organization. Broadly speaking, Jews have become increasingly secularized. Nonetheless, religion has remained the bottom-line determinant of Jewishness; almost all Jews continue to believe that adherence to another religion disqualifi...