The Return of the Jewish Cosmopolitan

Publication Date: July 2009

Publisher: National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership (U.S.)

Author(s): Michael Gottsegen

Research Area: Culture and religion; Social conditions

Keywords: Culture; Modernity; Communal Organization; Management

Type: Other

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

The author discusses the challenges faced by Jewish communal organizations in a time when many of the traditional battles for which they were created and structured have been achieved, and what it can mean and look like for a Jewish organization to retain its particular Jewishness while reaching outwards in a cosmopolitan way.