After the Rescue: Jewish Identity and Community in Contemporary Denmark / Edition 1

by A. Buckser

Overview

n October 1943, the Danish resistance rescued almost all of the Jews in Copenhagen from the occupying Nazis. In the years since, Jews have become deeply engaged in a Danish culture that presents very few barriers of anti-Semitism or prejudice. This book explores the questions that such inclusion raises for the Danish Jews, and what their answers can tell us about the meaning of religion, ethnicity and community in modern society.

Author Biography: Andrew Buckser is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Purdue University. He is author of Communities of Faith: Sectarianism, Identity, and Social Change on a Danish Island.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403962706
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	05/29/2003
Series:	Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
Edition description:	2003
Pages:	271
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

ANDREW BUCKSER is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Purdue University. He is the author of a number of works on religion and culture in northern Europe, including Communities of Faith: Sectarianism, Identity, and Social Change on a Danish Island (1996). Dr. Buckser received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1993, and he has conducted extensive fieldwork in Western Jutland and Copenhagen.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Ethnicity and Culture in Late Modernity The Community in Time and Space The Religious World: Faith and Ritual Practice in Jewish Copenhagen The Communal World: Jewish Subgroups in Copenhagen The Social World: The Life and Politics of the Formal Jewish Community The Larger World: Relations with the Jewish Community Outside of Denmark The Danish World: Jews in the Danish Mind The World of the Past: Danish Jewish History and the Rescue of 1943 Conclusion: Jewishness and the Meaning of Community in Contemporary Denmark

Editorial Reviews

'[C]omprehensive, nuanced, and beautifully written. Buckser skillfully weaves data from historical sources with rich ethnography and succeeds in depicting [the Jewish community of Denmark] sensitively and as objectively as is humanly possible. In doing so he provides valuable guidance for how to conduct research when challenged by enormous scale and social complexity, conditions common to late modern urban society'. - Leonard Plotnicov, Professor of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, and Editor of Ethnology

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