Jewries at the frontier : accommodation, identity, conflict / edited by Sander L. Gilman and Milton Shain.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the frontier as a model for Jewish history / Sander L. Gilman -- Jewries in Galicia and Bukovina, in Lemberg and Czernowitz: two divergent examples of Jewish communities in the far east of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy / Albert Lichtblau and Michael John -- At the frontier: the South African Jewish experience / John Simon -- Living within the frontier: early colonial Australia, Jews, and Aborigines / Paul R. Bartrop -- Alaskan Jews discover the last frontier / Bernard Reisman -- From one frontier to another: Jewish identity and political organizations in Lithuania and South Africa, 1890-1939 / Gideon Shimoni -- A frontier experience: Israeli Jews encounter diaspora in Cape Town, South Africa / Sally Frankental -- Bifocality in Jewish identity in the Texas-Jewish experience / Seth L. Wolitz -- (Re)creating Jewish ethnicities on the Brazilian frontier / Jeffrey Lesser -- Jews in Chinese culture: representations and realities / Zhou Xun -- The enemy within: some South African Jewish writers / Marcia Leveson -- From the brotherhood of man to the world to come: the denial of the political in rabbinic writing under apartheid / Claudia B. Braude -- Writing oneself at the frontier: Jewishness and otherness in Albert Memmi's La statue de sel / Heidi Grunebaum-Ralph -- The color of Jews: Jews, race, and the White Australia policy / Jon Stratton -- Ethnonationalism, anti-semitism, and identity politics: the North American and South African experiences / Milton Shain -- Neither Maori nor Pakeha: Jewish women's cultural identity / Livia Käthe Wittmann -- Francophone Jewish intellectuals in present-day Quebec / Régine Robin