Boundaries of Jewish Identity

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Susan A. Glenn and Naomi B. Sokoloff Klappentext The subject of Jewish identity is one of the most vexed and contested issues of modern religious and ethnic group history. This interdisciplinary collection draws on work in law, anthropology, history, sociology, literature, and popular culture to consider contemporary and historical responses to the question: "Who and what is Jewish?" Zusammenfassung This interdisciplinary collection draws on work in law! anthropology! history! sociology! literature and popular culture to consider contemporary and historical responses to the question: "Who and what is Jewish?" Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction | Who and What Is Jewish?: Controversies and Comparative Perspectives on the Boundaries of Jewish Identity / Susan A. Glenn and Naomi B. Sokoloff 1. Are Genes Jewish?: Conceptual Ambiguities in the New Genetic Age / Susan Martha Kahn 2. Who Is a Jew?: Categories, Boundaries, Communities, and Citizenship Law in Israel / Gad Barzilai 3. Jewish Character?: Stereotype and Identity in Fiction from Israel / Aharon Appelfeld and Sayed Kashua Naomi B. Sokoloff 4. "Funny, You Don't Look Jewish": Visual Stereotypes and the Making of Modern Jewish Identity / Susan A. Glenn 5. Blame, Boundaries, and Birthrights: Jewish Intermarriage in Midcentury America / Lila Corwin Berman 6. Boundary Maintenance and Jewish Identity: Comparative and Historical Perspectives / Calvin Goldscheider 7. Good Bad Jews: Converts, Conversion, and Boundary Redrawing in Modern Russian Jewry, Notes toward a New Category / Shulamit S. Magnus 8. "Jewish Like an Adjective": Confronting Jewish Identities in Contemporary Poland / Erica Lehrer 9. Conversos, Marranos, and Crypto-Latinos: The Jewish Question in the American Southwest (and What It Can Tell Us about Race and Ethnicity) / Jonathan Freedman 10. The Contested Logics of Jewish Identity / Laada Bilaniuk Bibliography Contributors Index ...

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Edited by Susan A. Glenn and Naomi B. Sokoloff

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The subject of Jewish identity is one of the most vexed and contested issues of modern religious and ethnic group history. This interdisciplinary collection draws on work in law, anthropology, history, sociology, literature, and popular culture to consider contemporary and historical responses to the question: "Who and what is Jewish?"

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This interdisciplinary collection draws on work in law, anthropology, history, sociology, literature and popular culture to consider contemporary and historical responses to the question: "Who and what is Jewish?"

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Acknowledgments

Introduction | Who and What Is Jewish?: Controversies and Comparative Perspectives on the Boundaries of Jewish Identity / Susan A. Glenn and Naomi B. Sokoloff

1. Are Genes Jewish?: Conceptual Ambiguities in the New Genetic Age / Susan Martha Kahn

2. Who Is a Jew?: Categories, Boundaries, Communities, and Citizenship Law in Israel / Gad Barzilai

3. Jewish Character?: Stereotype and Identity in Fiction from Israel / Aharon Appelfeld and Sayed Kashua

Naomi B. Sokoloff

4. "Funny, You Don't Look Jewish": Visual Stereotypes and the Making of Modern Jewish Identity / Susan A. Glenn

5. Blame, Boundaries, and Birthrights: Jewish Intermarriage in Midcentury America / Lila Corwin Berman

6. Boundary Maintenance and Jewish Identity: Comparative and Historical Perspectives / Calvin Goldscheider

7. Good Bad Jews: Converts, Conversion, and Boundary Redrawing in Modern Russian Jewry, Notes toward a New Category / Shulamit S. Magnus

8. "Jewish Like an Adjective": Confronting Jewish Identities in Contemporary Poland / Erica Lehrer

9. Conversos, Marranos, and Crypto-Latinos: The Jewish Question in the American Southwest (and What It Can Tell Us about Race and Ethnicity) / Jonathan Freedman

10. The Contested Logics of Jewish Identity / Laada Bilaniuk

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