ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with a particular form of identity, namely Jewish identity and more specifically the identity of British Jewish women. These issues have not been much researched despite a worldwide expansion of gender and women’s studies over the past 20–30 years that has brought forward a vast literature on American Jewish women. The chapter examines many aspects of the lives of British Jewish women and in particular to relate them to Jewish identity. It examines the concept of Jewish identity and explains how it has been measured and analysed. The chapter draws on the findings of the Review of Women in the British Jewish Community including both subjective and objective approaches to identity. In 1993 the Review of Women in the British Jewish Community tailored the basic format so that questions were directed to women as individuals rather than as spokeswomen for a household.
