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    Open and Closed Communities

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    The Hasidic community described is a closed community. It intentionally limits diversity and access to outsiders, preserving traditional beliefs and discouraging change. Members can only marry within the community and are strongly protected from outside influences. Deborah Feldman felt compelled to leave because as a woman she was limited to the traditional role of wife and mother, without access to education or career opportunities. Open communities embrace diversity and multiculturalism, welcoming outsiders while allowing internal diversity and change.

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    The Hasidic community described is a closed community. It intentionally limits diversity and access to outsiders, preserving traditional beliefs and discouraging change. Members can only marry within the community and are strongly protected from outside influences. Deborah Feldman felt compelled to leave because as a woman she was limited to the traditional role of wife and mother, without access to education or career opportunities. Open communities embrace diversity and multiculturalism, welcoming outsiders while allowing internal diversity and change.

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    The Hasidic community described is a closed community. It intentionally limits diversity and access to outsiders, preserving traditional beliefs and discouraging change. Members can only marry within the community and are strongly protected from outside influences. Deborah Feldman felt compelled to leave because as a woman she was limited to the traditional role of wife and mother, without access to education or career opportunities. Open communities embrace diversity and multiculturalism, welcoming outsiders while allowing internal diversity and change.

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    Self and Others

    Learning Outcome 1: I can define, discuss and analyse concepts of open and closed communities and the
    role of tolerance; understand the self as part of a community of significant others.

    How does this community benefit society in general?

    What value does this community bring to you?

    CLOSED COMMUNITY OPEN COMMUNITY


    • Intentionally limits diversity and uniqueness • Encourages multiculturalism; different
    within its members ethnicities and cultures living together in one
    community, while keeping their identities
    • Intentionally limits access to outsiders who are
    different from the members of its community. • Open and welcoming (more tolerant) of
    (for example, it will allow marriage to take place outsiders with their own beliefs, values and
    only with members of their own community) tradition
    • You are either born in a closed community or • Does not stop members of its community from
    accepted in it, if you are willing to conform to its reaching out to other communities and mixing
    traditions, values etc. with them
    • Intentionally preserves traditions, beliefs and • Different communities can co-exist within an
    moral values and discourages any change in open community. Even a smaller closed
    them (generally conservative) community can exist within an open community
    • Typically communitarian, meaning it will put the and is protected.
    needs of the community before the needs or • Generally liberal, meaning individuals can keep
    wishes of a unique individual their traditions and values as long as other
    • One advantage of a closed community is that it is people are not harmed. Rules and laws would
    easier to find common agreement within its guarantee the most freedom possible.
    members. This can make it function more • Can be more individualistic, because for people
    efficiently. to be successful they have to have their
    • One disadvantage of a closed community is that individual lives considered
    it can be cut off from advancements in other • One advantage is that change and progress can
    communities. Lack of diversity can mean losing
    happen faster
    access to talented and skilled individuals from
    other communities. • Since there are many value systems co-existing,
    there can be many disagreements, which must
    be tolerated.

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    Self and Others
    Learning Outcome 1: I can define, discuss and analyse concepts of open and closed communities and the
    role of tolerance; understand the self as part of a community of significant others.

    CASE STUDY
    because her community did not believe that
    women should go to school and have careers;
    they preserve the traditionalist view of the
    family, in which the mother stays home caring
    for children and the home. Feldman states, “As
    a woman in the Hasidic community, my singular
    contribution to society had rested on my ability
    to marry and have children. My role was special
    Hasidic Jewish Family (Creative Commons) and holy, but it was certainly the only role I
    could play. Housewife. Mother. For everything
    Brought up in a strict Hasidic community in New
    else I could depend on my husband. When my
    York, Deborah Feldman could only dream of
    professors and classmates at college instantly
    lipstick and jeans, cigarettes and playing the
    treated me like an equal, and regarded my
    piano. So what happened when, in her
    opinions as worth consideration, I basked in
    twenties, she renounced her religion and left
    their recognition like it was the sunshine after a
    her community?
    long rain. I read newspapers and talked about
    “I grew up in the black-and-white section of politics, slightly surprised each time I was taken
    Brooklyn, New York. The men in my family wore seriously. I asked questions without fear of
    black hats, black coats and white shirts, they repercussions; I made decisions without
    studied black-and-white books and said bright wondering if I was going to be criticised.
    colours were the work of the devil. Speaking
    The Hasidic way of life is rich with customs and
    English, not Yiddish, was also considered evil. In
    traditions, that are kept alive and preserved by
    a black-and-white world you can either be bad
    the community’s members. Many today are
    or good. A Jew or not a Jew. There is no in-
    members of this Jewish community, most
    between. Maybe I didn't wear red nail polish
    residing in both Israel and the United States and
    like an outsider, but I was peeking into an evil
    live by the tenets and customs of this
    world, living vicariously in it through fictional
    community.
    characters of the books I read in English. Break
    a rule and you're automatically on a blacklist. “
    Marriage is pre-arranged by the parents, and
    one can only marry within the Hasidic
    community. Since in America, one can
    homeschool children, Hasids can opt not to
    send their children to school. Feldman was not
    given a formal education until her adult life, Deborah Feldman, (creative commons)
    Adapted from: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/aug/29/deborah-feldman-hasidic-once-upon-a-life
    https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-13417502

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    Self and Others
    Learning Outcome 1: I can define, discuss and analyse concepts of open and closed communities and the
    role of tolerance; understand the self as part of a community of significant others.

    1. How would you describe the Hasidic community?

    Open Community Closed Community

    2. Choose 2 characteristics of the Hasidic Community that support your answer above.

    They don’t let their members marry outside the faith. Their members are allowed to read and learn anything.

    They welcome different faiths in their community. They protect strongly their community’s traditions.

    3. Why did Deborah Feldman feel the need to leave the Hasidic Community?

    4. Explain the difference between an open and a closed Community.

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    Self and Others
    Learning Outcome 1: I can define, discuss and analyse concepts of open and closed communities and the
    role of tolerance; understand the self as part of a community of significant others.

    5. Imagine you were born in a closed community. Discuss the positive and negative elements of this
    Community.
    POSITIVE NEGATIVE

    6. Imagine you were born in an open community. Discuss the positive and negative elements of this
    Community.
    POSITIVE NEGATIVE

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