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.

United States.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

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

Manners and customs.

Immigrants--United States.

Immigrants.

United States--Ethnic relations.

Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

x, 298 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [1988]

Contents:

The cultural anthropology of American Jewry / Walter P. Zenner & 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 US / 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 until this day / David Mayer Gradwohl & Hannah Rosenberg Gradwohl

Jews and Judaica / Samuel Heilman.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0887067484

0887067506

OCLC:

16714807