The essays in Writing New Identities address the changing notions of community that the New Europe faces as a result of the large numbers of immigrants and migrant workers seeking work and refuge within its borders.
Biographical note:?Jits van Straten, Bennekom, Niederlande.
Where do East European Jews - about 90 percent of Ashkenazi Jewry - descend from? This book conveys new insights into a century-old controversy. Jits van Straten argues that there is no evidence for the most common assumption that German Jews fled en masse to Eastern Europe to c…
"Race, ethnicity and nation are all intimately linked to family and kinship, yet these links deserve closer attention than they usually get in social science, above all when family and kinship are changing rapidly in the context of genomic and biotechnical revolutions. Drawing o…
1. Migrating heritage -- 2. Cultural networks shaped -- 3. Cultural networks weakened -- 4. Cultural networks strengthened -- 5. Coda : Cultural policy implications and recommendations.
"This book highlights the strengths and benefits from new cultural networking practices but also the challenges and issues that arise, how these could be addressed and what lessons can be learnt. It also sets out to answer the questions 'how.' How can we leverage the power of cr…
