New Trends in the Study of Haredi Culture and Society

119 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h29min.
Who are Haredim? And why are they the source of both increasing attention and continuing misunderstanding? New Trends in the Study of Haredi Culture and Society draws on the innovative research of leading scholars from a variety of disciplines—including history, religious studies, demography, linguistics, and geography—to trace the growing prominence of Haredi (often called ultra-Orthodox) Jews in Jewish life. Haredi Jews are committed to preserving a measure of segregation from the rest of society consistent with the guiding principles of their forebears; yet increasingly, they are appearing more visibly and assertively in public spaces. Demographic analysis suggests that they will constitute a much larger share—nearly one-quarter—of the world Jewish population over the next twenty years. By examining the evolution of political, cultural, and social trends in Haredi communities across the globe, this interdisciplinary and transnational volume sheds important light both on Haredi communities and on the societies of which they are part.FOREWORD EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION PART I: CULTURE AND SOCIETY A “Demographic Hybrid”: Haredi Demography in the Early Twenty-first Century, by Daniel Staetsky Serving the Jews, Serving the Empire: Discursive Hierarchy and Messianic Temporality in Russian Chabad, by Galina Zelenina Innovation and Conservatism in Hasidic Pop Culture and Language, by Chaya R. Nove Communal Self-Regulation and State Law: The Case of the “Kosher Cellphone in Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox Community”, by Shuki Friedman Stuck in Neutral: Some Ethnographic Reflections on Haredim, Education, and the State, by Lea Taragin-Zeller PART II: POLITICS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Kosher Socialism? A History of Haredi Judaism and the Left, by Nathaniel Deustch Ultra-Orthodox Judaism and the State of Israel: New Perspectives, by Itamar Ben Ami From a Negligible Minority to a Rising Force: Three Formative Events in Post-1977 Haredi History, by Benjamin Brown The Haredi Parties and the Rightist Camp in Israel 1948–2022: From Preference to Default, by Nissim Leon Politics, National Identity, and Democracy: A Comparison of Haredi Political Attitudes and Behavior in the United States and Israel, by Nechumi Malovicki-Yaffe, David N. Myers, Mark Trencher, and Chaya Lehrfield-Trop ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS ABOUT THE USC CASDEN INSTITUTE