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

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Glenn, Susan A.; Sokoloff, Naomi B.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: viii, 249 p.
• Notes: "A Samuel and Althea Stroum Book."

Table of Contents

• 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.