JEWISH IDENTITY

'Jewish identity' is identifying as a Jew.
Jewish identity can be cultural in nature. Jewish identity can involve ties to the Jewish community. Jewish identity may be religious. Jews who are Atheists may have Jewish identity. People born from a mixed Jewish and non-Jewish background may have Jewish identity.
See: "Half-Jewish"

Contents

Census data

Anti-Semitism affected Jewish identity

Israel

A Cultural Concept

See also

References

Census data

In the United States, about 51% of the people identifying themselves as Jews are religious. Another 43% of self-identified Jews consider themselves secular.

Anti-Semitism affected Jewish identity

According to Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, modern Jewish communities and the modern Jewish identity are influenced by antisemitism. [1] Jewish identity can be influenced by the antisemitism that some non-Jews harbor toward them. The Jewish diaspora in most places suffered persecution by Church or Mosque. They were landless and suffered periodic massacres, expulsions and other abuses. It also involves identification with abusers and attempts to appease them. [2]
see Self-hating Jew.

Israel

Jewish identity can involve a sense of kinship with Israel. Jews in the Jewish diaspora may see Israel as the homeland of their people.

A Cultural Concept

Jewish identity can be cultural.
There are religious and cultural components to Jewish identity, just as there are religious and cultural components of Christian identity or Muslim identity.

See also

★ Jewish population

★ Jews for Judaism

★ Basic Laws of Israel

★ Halakha

★ Knesset

★ Law of Return

★ Matrilineality

★ Patrilineality

★ Politics of Israel

★ Ashkenazi Jews

★ Jewish diaspora

★ Sephardi Jews

★ Mizrahi Jews

★ Jewish cuisine

★ Secular Jewish culture

★ Cultural diversity

★ Identity politics

★ Self-concept

★ Social identity

References

★ Love, Hate, and Jewish Identity, Jonathan Sacks

★ The Meaning of Jewish Identity, Rabbi Barry H. Block

★ The Peace Encyclopaedia

★ Zehut Institute