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Boundaries of Jewish identity /

The subject of Jewish identity is one of the most vexed and contested issues of modern religious and ethnic group history. This interdisciplinary collection draws on work in law, anthropology, history, sociology, literature, and popular culture to consider contemporary and historical responses to th...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Glenn, Susan A. (Susan Anita), Sokoloff, Naomi B.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Seattle, WA : University of Washington Press, ©2010.
Colección:Samuel and Althea Stroum Books.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.