Boundaries of Jewish identity / edited by Susan A. Glenn and Naomi B. Sokoloff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Glenn, Susan A. (Susan Anita)

Sokoloff, Naomi B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Identity.

Jews.

Jews--United States--Identity.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

United States.

Jews--Israel--Identity.

Israel.

Jews--Europe--Identity.

Europe.

Physical Description:

viii, 249 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2010]

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.

Notes:

"A Samuel and Althea Stroum Book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780295990545

0295990546

9780295990552

0295990554

OCLC:

613433443