Language:
English
Year of publication:
1969
Titel der Quelle:
The Ghetto and Beyond
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1969) 21-32
Keywords:
Jews History 1945-
;
Jews Social conditions 20th century
;
Sociology Research
Abstract:
Stresses the extent to which the American Jew reflects American society, compared to Jews in Europe (e.g. Britain, France et al.) and also compared to other ethnic groups and religious denominations in the U.S. Concludes that the comparative study of the Jew must be linked inseparably with the comparative study of the Gentile. To focus on the study of the Jews alone is to commit the moral sin of ethnocentrism, but it is also wrong methodologically and will result in erroneous conclusions about the nature of specific Jewish communities and customs. In other words, the renewed efforts to study the Jews in the Diaspora, stimulated by Israeli institutions, should be defined as a special part of comparative sociology, and must be based on the theoretical and methodological procedures of that discipline if they are to prove fruitful, either as a contribution to scholarly knowledge or to political action.
Note:
Appeared previously in the "Jewish Journal of Sociology" 5,2 (1963) 157-166.
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