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Creative Decision-Making and the Construction of a Modern Jewish Identity
Publication Date: October 2008
Publisher(s): Institute of Contemporary Jewry
Author(s): Roberta Rosenberg Farber
Special Collection: Berman Jewish Policy Archive
Topic: Culture and religion (Religion and religious groups)
Keywords: American Jews; Jewish identification; Identity formation
Type: Report
Coverage: United States Israel
Abstract:
In Jewish Population Studies 29 (Papers in Jewish Demography, 1997), 317-330. In this paper I examine the nature of the process of change experience by ba'alei teshuvah based on interviews by the author in New York and Jerusalem.