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Boundaries of Jewish Identity.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Samuel and Althea Stroum BksPublisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (259 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780295800837
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Boundaries of Jewish IdentityDDC classification:
  • 305.892/4
LOC classification:
  • SB
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Who and What Is Jewish? : Controversies and Comparative Perspectives on the Boundaries of Jewish Identity -- 1. Are Genes Jewish? : Conceptual Ambiguities in the New Genetic Age -- 2. Who Is a Jew? - Categories, Boundaries, Communities, and Citizenship Law in Israel -- 3. Jewish Character? - Stereotype and Identity in Fiction from Israel by Aharon Appelfeld and Sayed Kashua -- 4. "Funny, You Don't Look Jewish" - Visual Stereotypes and the Making of Modern Jewish Identity -- 5. Blame, Boundaries, and Birthrights - Jewish Intermarriage in Midcentury America -- 6. Boundary Maintenance and Jewish Identity - Comparative and Historical Perspectives -- 7. Good Bad Jews - Converts, Conversion, and Boundary Redrawing in Modern Russian Jewry, Notes toward a New Category -- 8. "Jewish Like an Adjective" - Confronting Jewish Identities in Contemporary Poland -- 9. Conversos, Marranos, and Crypto-Latinos - The Jewish Question in the American Southwest (and What It Can Tell Us about Race and Ethnicity) -- 10. The Contested Logics of Jewish Identity -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Who and What Is Jewish? : Controversies and Comparative Perspectives on the Boundaries of Jewish Identity -- 1. Are Genes Jewish? : Conceptual Ambiguities in the New Genetic Age -- 2. Who Is a Jew? - Categories, Boundaries, Communities, and Citizenship Law in Israel -- 3. Jewish Character? - Stereotype and Identity in Fiction from Israel by Aharon Appelfeld and Sayed Kashua -- 4. "Funny, You Don't Look Jewish" - Visual Stereotypes and the Making of Modern Jewish Identity -- 5. Blame, Boundaries, and Birthrights - Jewish Intermarriage in Midcentury America -- 6. Boundary Maintenance and Jewish Identity - Comparative and Historical Perspectives -- 7. Good Bad Jews - Converts, Conversion, and Boundary Redrawing in Modern Russian Jewry, Notes toward a New Category -- 8. "Jewish Like an Adjective" - Confronting Jewish Identities in Contemporary Poland -- 9. Conversos, Marranos, and Crypto-Latinos - The Jewish Question in the American Southwest (and What It Can Tell Us about Race and Ethnicity) -- 10. The Contested Logics of Jewish Identity -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

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