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1 online resource (viii, 249 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Note |
"A Samuel and Althea Stroum Book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Are genes Jewish? : conceptual ambiguities in the new genetic age / Susan Martha Kahn -- Who is a Jew? : categories, boundaries, communities, and citizenship law in Israel / Gad Barzilai -- Jewish character? : stereotype and identity in fiction from Israel by Aharon Appelfeld and Sayed Kashua / Naomi B. Sokoloff -- "Funny, you don't look Jewish" : visual stereotypes and the making of modern Jewish identity / Susan A. Glenn -- Blame, boundaries, and birthrights : Jewish intermarriage in midcentury America / Lila Corwin Berman -- Boundary maintenance and Jewish identity : comparative and historical perspectives / Calvin Goldscheider -- Good bad jews : converts, conversion, and boundary redrawing in modern Russian Jewry : notes toward a new category / Shulamit S. Magnus -- "Jewish like an adjective" : confronting Jewish identities in contemporary Poland / Erica Lehrer -- Conversos, Marranos, and crypto-Latinos : the Jewish question in the American Southwest (and what it can tell us about race and ethnicity) / Jonathan Freedman -- The contested logics of Jewish identity / Laada Bilaniuk. |
| Summary |
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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These essays look at the forces, ranging from new genetic and reproductive technologies to increasingly multicultural societies, that push against established boundaries, examining how definitions of Jewishness have been established, enforced, challenged, and transformed. What makes Boundaries of Jewish Identity distinctive is its attention to the various Jewish "epistemologies" or ways of knowing who counts as a Jew. The essays reveal that answers to that question reflect the different social, intellectual, and political locations of those who are asking. |
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This book provides an excellent opportunity to examine how Jews fit into an increasingly diverse America and an increasingly complicated global society. |
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"A provocative and timulating book about a much talked about but surprisingly under-analyzed subject." |
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David Biale, University of California, Davis. |
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"A wonderfully coherent, superbly edited volume about the incoherence of contemporary Jewish identity. Its lucid, intriguing essays provide a fresh, and at times unsettling, perspective on what it means to be Jewish."--Steven J. Zipperstein, Stanford University --Book Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Jews -- Identity.
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Jews -- Identity. |
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Jews -- United States -- Identity.
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Jews. |
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United States. |
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Identity (Philosophical concept) |
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Jews -- Israel -- Identity.
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Israel. |
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Jews -- Europe -- Identity.
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Europe. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Glenn, Susan A. (Susan Anita)
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Sokoloff, Naomi B.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Boundaries of Jewish identity. Seattle, WA : University of Washington Press, ©2010 9780295990545 (DLC) 2010033490 (OCoLC)613433443 |
| ISBN |
9780295800837 (electronic book) |
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0295800836 (electronic book) |
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9780295990545 |
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0295990546 |
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9780295990552 |
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0295990554 |
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