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How I am a Jew : adventures into my Jewish-American identity/ Howard W. Polsky.
Van Pelt Library E184.36.E84 P65 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Polsky, Howard W.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Polsky, Howard W--Anecdotes.
- Polsky, Howard W.
- Jews--United States--Identity.
- Jews.
- United States.
- Identity (Philosophical concept).
- United States--Ethnic relations.
- Ethnic relations.
- Genre:
- Anecdotes.
- Physical Description:
- 210 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2002]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 I Cope With Anti-Semitism 1
- Chapter 2 The Practical Spirituality of My Ancestors 21
- Chapter 3 My Disputatious People 45
- Chapter 4 At The Crossroads of My Two Utopias 61
- Chapter 5 In Love on a Kibbutz 85
- Chapter 6 My Jewish and Non-Jewish Scholarship 101
- Chapter 7 How the Crossovers of My Personal and Professional Lives Created an Insufferable Egoist 117
- Chapter 8 God, Ritual and Religion 133
- Chapter 9 Israel and Me 151
- Chapter 10 How the Jewish Joke Bonds Us Together 165
- Chapter 11 Am I a Vanishing Jewish-American? 177
- Chapter 12 I Convene a Chavurah 187
- Epilogue: I Will Not Be Marching This Time 207.
- ISBN:
- 0761824235
- OCLC:
- 50479319
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