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Publication Date: December 1997
Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America
Author(s): Daniel J. Elazar
Research Area: Culture and religion
Keywords: Community Formation; Jewish Culture; Jewish Identification
Type: Report
Abstract:
In the postmodern era, all Diaspora Jewish communities are voluntary, and the first task of every Jewish community is to learn to deal with the particular local manifestation of its Jewish population's freedom to choose. Participation in the community actually defines its limits, and each is organized as a series of concentric circles around a central core of Judaism/Jewishness that draws Jews toward it in varying degrees.
In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, v.74 no.2, Winter 1997.