ERIC Number: EJ1478697
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
Pages: 26
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ISSN: ISSN-1524-4113
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Unsettled Ground: How Jewish Undergraduates Are Negotiating Identity Shifts and (Un)Civil Campus Discourse after October 7
Vikki S. Katz; Emma R. Forman; Noel H. McGuire
Journal of Jewish Education, v91 n2 p249-274 2025
The post-October 7th period has been a period of redefinition for many Jewish American undergraduates and particularly for those who identify as politically left-of-center and who found themselves encountering anti-Israel and antisemitic attitudes among peers and organizations they had been part of previously. Via in-depth interviews with Jewish American undergraduates and their non-Jewish peers, this study documents undergraduates' realignments of their Jewish and political identities and examines how those identity changes explain the students' decisions to engage in, or avoid, discussions with peers about October 7, the war in Gaza and the broader Middle East conflict, and/or rising U.S. antisemitism.
Descriptors: Jews, Undergraduate Students, North Americans, Political Attitudes, Social Discrimination, Peer Relationship, Student Organizations, Student Attitudes, Violence, Self Concept, Conflict, War, Foreign Countries, Judaism, Arabs, Student Experience, Intergroup Relations
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Israel; Gaza Strip; Middle East; Palestine
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