- Format
- Book
- Published
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2010]
©2010
- Locale
- United States
Israel
Europe
- Contents
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Introduction : who and what is Jewish? Controversies and comparative perspectives on the boundaries of Jewish identity / Susan A. Glenn, Naomi B. Sokoloff
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.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Glenn, Susan A. (Susan Anita)
Sokoloff, Naomi B.
- Notes
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"A Samuel and Althea Stroum Book."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : who and what is Jewish? Controversies and comparative perspectives on the boundaries of Jewish identity / Susan A. Glenn, Naomi B. Sokoloff -- 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.
