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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827159103321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Seattle, : University of Washington Press, c2010

ISBN

0-295-80083-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GlennSusan A (Susan Anita)

SokoloffNaomi B

Disciplina

305.892/4

Soggetti

Jews - Identity

Jews - United States - Identity

Jews - Israel - Identity

Jews - Europe - Identity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Samuel and Althea Stroum Book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.