The Jewishness of Israelis :  responses to the Guttman report / 
edited by Charles S. Liebman and Elihu Katz. 
 - Albany :  State University of New York Press,  �1997. 
 - 1 online resource (xix, 188 pages) :  illustrations. 
 - SUNY series in Israeli studies .
 - SUNY series in Israeli studies. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Beliefs, observances and social interaction among Israeli Jews : the Guttman Institute Report /  The media and the Guttman Report /  Academics and other intellectuals /  Behavioral and phenomenological Jewishness /  Religion and modernity : the special case of Israel /  Cultural conflict in Israeli society /  The Van Leer Papers.  Shlomit Levy, Hanna Levinsohn, and Elihu Katz --  Charles S. Leibman --  Charles S. Liebman --  Elihu Katz --  Charles S. Liebman --  Charles S. Liebman --  Appendix : 
<br/><br/> Annotation  Analyzes a recent report on a survey of the religious beliefs and behavior of Israeli Jews, and the intense public debate that it produced.In December 1993, the Louis Guttman Israel Institute of Applied Social Research released the results of the most comprehensive study ever undertaken of the religious beliefs and behavior of Israeli Jews. The study revealed that Israeli Jews were far more traditional in their religious beliefs and behavior than previously thought, resulting in an intense public debate within Israeli society.This book summarizes the Guttman Report and describes how the media and Israeli intellectuals responded to it and imposed their own interpretations. It then analyzes the report in greater detail and puts in global perspective Israeli Jews' ritual behavior, religious beliefs, and attitudes toward religion in public life. The editors conclude that the religious traditionalism of Israeli Jews is unique among advanced industrial societies. They seek to explain this uniqueness in terms of the particular nature of Israeli society, focusing on Israel's security problems and suggesting the impact that a new securit. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0585064938 9780585064932 9780791433058 0791433056 9780791433065 0791433064 1438410883 9781438410883 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Jews--Public opinion.--Israel<br/>Orthodox Judaism--Public opinion.--Israel<br/>Israelis--Religious life.<br/>Public opinion--Israel.<br/>Social surveys--Israel.<br/>RELIGION--Judaism--History.<br/>Israelis--Religious life.<br/>Jews--Public opinion.<br/>Orthodox Judaism--Public opinion.<br/>Public opinion.<br/>Social surveys.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Israel.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BM390  / .J49 1997eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>296/.095694