Liberal Judaism and Local Jewish Identity: The Dublin Jewish Progressive Congregation (DJPC), 1946–1967

Abstract As a minority within a minority, the Dublin Jewish Progressive Congregation ( DJPC ) barely features in the history of either Irish Jewry or Britain’s Liberal Judaism ( LJ ) movement. Any discussions of the congregation have been superficial; it is dismissed as religiously lax in the orthod...

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Auteur principal: Wynn, Natalie (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Publié: 2021
Dans: European journal of jewish studies
Année: 2021, Volume: 15, Numéro: 1, Pages: 123-152
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Irlande / Judaïsme réformé / Identité religieuse / Histoire 1946-1967
RelBib Classification:BH Judaïsme
KBF Îles britanniques
Sujets non-standardisés:B Jewish historiography
B Dublin Jewish history
B Irish Jewish history
B Reform Judaism
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Résumé:Abstract As a minority within a minority, the Dublin Jewish Progressive Congregation ( DJPC ) barely features in the history of either Irish Jewry or Britain’s Liberal Judaism ( LJ ) movement. Any discussions of the congregation have been superficial; it is dismissed as religiously lax in the orthodox-led, largely anecdotal Irish Jewish historiography, but as conservative in the LJ context. This article critically examines the DJPC in its own right and “from within” for the first time, drawing on local memory and a range of material, personal and archival. I begin by querying exactly what the synagogue’s founders were seeking to achieve in establishing an Irish outpost of Jewish reform. The incremental development of a distinctive Irish brand of progressive Judaism is then investigated through the formative influence of the DJPC ’s primary institutional relationships: that with the local orthodox community, and that with the Union of Liberal and Progressive Synagogues ( ULPS ) in London.
ISSN:1872-471X
Contient:Enthalten in: European journal of jewish studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/1872471X-BJA10019