Jewish South Africans: a sociological view of the Johannesburg community

Dubb, Allie A

Title: Jewish South Africans: a sociological view of the Johannesburg community
Title: Occasional papers, no. 21
Creator: Dubb, Allie A
Subject: Jews -- South Africa -- Johannesburg Johannesburg (South Africa) -- Social conditions
Date: 1977
Type: Book
Type: Text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/1697
Identifier: vital:20217
Identifier: ISBN 0868102253
Description: The South African Jewish community is embedded in the wider one of white, mainly English-speaking South Africa in a way in which Eastern European Jews were not, and the individual may decide for himself the nature and extent of his Jewish involvement. In South Africa, then, 'being Jewish' varies within wide limits: it may be little more than an accident of birth minimally affecting a person's behaviour; it may -be expressed primarily in support of Jewish institutions and philanthropies; or it may have much the same connotations as it had in Eastern Europe. What being Jewish means in the South African context and, more specifically, in Johannesburg, is the problem to which the present study is addressed. Its aim is to distinguish the various elements of Jewishness, and to discover the manner in which they find expression among those who regard themselves as Jews. It is a study of identification: that is, of the behaviour, sentiments, beliefs, values and attitudes which derive from, and express identity with, the Jewish group, its culture, religion and peoplehood.
Description: Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
Format: xi, 190 pages, pdf
Publisher: Rhodes University, Institute of Social and Economic Research
Language: English
Relation: Occasional papers (Rhodes University. Institute of Social and Economic Research); no. 21, Occasional papers, no. 21
Rights: Rhodes University
Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

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