‘Bringing in Those Who Are Far’: Jewish Sociology and the Reconstruction of Jewish Life in Post-War Europe

Sociology played a major role in the reconstruction of European Jewry after 1945. It offered a putatively objective language, enabling Jews of different religious and political leanings to collaborate. With Jewish communities having been devastated by the war, policy makers now sought quantitative d...

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Main Author: Wallet, Bart 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2016
In: Journal of religion in Europe
Year: 2016, Volume: 9, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 225-246
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Europe / Judaism / Religious sociology / History 1945-1970
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
BH Judaism
KBA Western Europe
Further subjects:B Jewish sociology reconstruction European Jewry Americanization Jewish demography Jewish Cultural Centres Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
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