From MySpace to MyJewishSpace: The role of the internet in the self-definition of ‘New Jews’ in Austria and Germany
Together with a significant proportion of the population, especially in the developed world, Jewish writers nowadays use the internet to present themselves, advertise their work and their interests, or share pictures of their family albums. With millions of others they thus negotiate big chunks of their private lives in a public space.
In my paper I will argue that Jews, by seemingly doing the same as everybody else, are actually marking themselves out as different.
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