Papers by Stanley Waterman
Progress in Human Geography, Jun 1, 1985
This landmark survey of the Jewish population in London and south-east England, conducted in 2002... more This landmark survey of the Jewish population in London and south-east England, conducted in 2002 and based on 2,965 completed questionnaires, was, at the time, the largest ever study of Jews in Britain. It covers a wide range of topics: housing, lifestyle, health and illness, communication and leisure, participation in Jewish cultural activities, charitable giving, voluntary work, education and schooling, and care for older people and the infirm. Written by leading experts in contemporary Jewry working in partnership with senior researchers at the National Centre for Social Research, it has provided planners and decision-makers across the Jewish voluntary sector with essential data to support their efforts.
Why, as a geographer, I should have an interest in music – the simple answer to which is that it ... more Why, as a geographer, I should have an interest in music – the simple answer to which is that it relates to places and to the people inhabiting those places and helps in appreciating differences among them. Like others, geographers are interested in music because sounds evoke images, which resound and echo our thoughts. Though much of what we hear around us is unorganized or just loosely structured some scarcely ordered sounds such as the sounds of nature or those created through human activi..
Pluralism and Political Geography, 2015
The Changing World Religion Map, 2014
This chapter examines the food consumption practices of Jews with an emphasis on Jewish dietary l... more This chapter examines the food consumption practices of Jews with an emphasis on Jewish dietary laws and their effects on Jewish community and separation. One of the consequences of any successful religion is that it eventually becomes institutionalized, for without institutionalized rules and regulations it becomes difficult to hold its adherents together. Whereas some religious beliefs and practices are active on a personal level, others are designed to create community, segregating members of one religion from others. Food has had a significant role in religious practice and observance throughout history and food consumption has traditionally been a sure way of separating Jews from others. In the period before the Enlightenment, these proved reasonably efficient in achieving their goals, especially the preservation of Jewish peoplehood. More often than not, the effects of food on religious practice have been negative rather than positive because food and food consumption are efficient media for enhancing the perception of difference between groups and members of these groups. When translated into religious injunctions rather than just cultural differences, practices relating to which foods are proper for consumption and which are inappropriate and customs regarding the care and attention devoted to the preparation of food and food taboos become powerful elements in distinguishing Jews from other religions. However, the emergence of different customs in diverse Jewish communities and the institutionalization designed to safeguard observant Jews from consuming prohibited food highlight differences among Jews themselves, a feature further emphasized by the secularization of many Jews in modern societies and the widening gaps between observant Jews and others.
This paper is intended to set out some interesting empirical findings and to highlight some of th... more This paper is intended to set out some interesting empirical findings and to highlight some of the difficulties of applying the "Distinctive Jewish Name" (DJN) for Social Research on Jews in Britain. The study involved a variety of methods in order to reach a reliable estimate and map the number of Jews in Greater London in 1984.
Geographical Review, 1993
Transatlantic homes the island relinquished the island attained - newcomers to England a roof ove... more Transatlantic homes the island relinquished the island attained - newcomers to England a roof over my head... ...and bread on the table - employment making it - from flat rental to home ownership valued people, valued places British-raised - a profile the island reconsidered England reconsidered identity home islands and insularities.
The geographic expansion of Jewish communities into suburban environments is a process that has b... more The geographic expansion of Jewish communities into suburban environments is a process that has been in effect almost as long as the process of suburbanization itself (Lipman, 1968). It has immediate and important consequences for social cohesion and for ...
This paper casts a retrospective gaze at an article written as a beginning academic who had immig... more This paper casts a retrospective gaze at an article written as a beginning academic who had immigrated to Israel just two years prior, some 40 years ago. Not wanting to alter anything I had written, it was subsequently published nearly five years later. In that paper, I observed a deep abyss between the Israel I “understood”—mainly through reading—before I immigrated and which I thought I “knew”, and the Israel I was experiencing following my arrival. This chasm led me to identify Israeli myths contra an Israeli reality and caused me to pose what were for me, at the time of writing, some disturbing questions about Israeli landscape and society. I did this by choosing three iconic landscapes — new towns, kibbutzim and the desert — and picking away at misunderstandings about them and the way in which we perceived Israel. Four decades on, I ask whether I had been impulsive in writing that paper then with so little experience and if a similar paper in a similar vein were to be writt...
Literature and migration, 1995
Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 1980
Town Planning Review, 1971
Handbook of the Changing World Language Map
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