Thesis
Jewish identity construction and perpetuation in contemporary Britain
- Abstract:
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This thesis attends to the major question ‘how is Jewish identity created and maintained in contemporary Britain?’ To answer this question, I have done one year of ethnographic fieldwork in Britain, which included 121 interviews with Jewish people of various ages and across different religious as well as non-religious denominations.
This thesis identifies four major elements informing the creation and perpetuation of Jewish identity: One, a sense of difference from the majo...
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Authors
Contributors
+ Biggs, M
Division:
SSD
Department:
Sociology
Role:
Supervisor
+ Elgenius, G
Division:
SSD
Department:
Sociology
Role:
Supervisor
+ Freud-Kandel, M
Division:
SSD
Department:
Sociology
Role:
Supervisor
Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2012
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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- Copyright holder:
- Fuhr, C
- Copyright date:
- 2012
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