Boundaries of Jewish Identity
Herausgeber: Glenn, Susan A; Sokoloff, Naomi B
Boundaries of Jewish Identity
Herausgeber: Glenn, Susan A; Sokoloff, Naomi B
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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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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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- Verlag: University of Washington Press
- Seitenzahl: 259
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2011
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 228mm x 155mm x 17mm
- Gewicht: 404g
- ISBN-13: 9780295990552
- ISBN-10: 0295990554
- Artikelnr.: 29977684
- Verlag: University of Washington Press
- Seitenzahl: 259
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2011
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 228mm x 155mm x 17mm
- Gewicht: 404g
- ISBN-13: 9780295990552
- ISBN-10: 0295990554
- Artikelnr.: 29977684
Susan A. Glenn is Howard and Frances Keller Endowed Professor of History and a member of the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Washington. Naomi B. Sokoloff is professor of Near Eastern languages and civilizations and professor of comparative literature at the University of Washington, where she has also served as the Samuel and Althea Stroum Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies. Other contributors are Gad Barzilai, Lila Corwin Berman, Laada Bilaniuk, Jonathan Freedman, Calvin Goldscheider, Susan Martha Kahn, Erica Lehrer, and Shulamit S. Magnus.
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
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
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
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