Persistence and flexibility : anthropological perspectives on the American Jewish experience / edited by Walter P. Zenner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zenner, Walter P.

Series:

SUNY series in anthropology and Judaic studies

SUNY series in Anthropology and Judaic Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--United States--Identity.

Jews.

Jews--United States--Social life and customs.

Immigrants--United States.

Immigrants.

United States--Ethnic relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c1988.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Using a variety of anthropological approaches, the authors illustrate how the Jewish identity has persisted in the United States despite great subcultural variation and a wide range of adaptations. Within the various essays, attention is given to both mainstream Jews and to the Hasidim, Yemenites, Indian Sephardim, Soviet Emigres, and "Jews for Jesus." Institutions such as the family, the school, and the synagogue, are considered through techniques of participation/ observation and in archeological research. Persistence and Flexibility provides a means of viewing the Jewish community through the prism of key events, or rituals, and symbols.

Contents:

The cultural anthropology of American Jewry / Walter P. Zenner and Janet S. Belcove-Shalin

Stigma, identity, and Sephardic-Ashkenazic relations in Indianapolis / Jack Glazier

American Yemenite Jewish interethnic strategies / Dina Dahbany Miraglia

Jewish in the USSR, Russian in the USA / Fran Markowitz

Learning to be a part-time Jew / David Schoem

Integration into the group and sacred uniqueness / Stuart Schoenfeld

At home away from home / Hannah Kliger

Family, kinship, and ethnicity / Myrna Silverman

The Hasidim of North America / Janet S. Belcove-Shalin

Separatist Orthodoxy's attitudes towards community / Steven Lowenstein

That is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day / David Mayer Gradwohl and Hannah Rosenberg Gradwohl

Jews and Judaica / Samuel Heilman.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographies and index.

ISBN:

1-4384-2479-5

0-585-09215-X

OCLC:

42856446