Jewish Peoplehood : : An American Innovation /

Jewish Peoplehood : : An American Innovation / / Noam Pianko.

Winner of the 2017 American Jewish Historical Society’s Saul Viener Book Prize Although fewer American Jews today describe themselves as religious, they overwhelmingly report a strong sense of belonging to the Jewish people. Indeed, Jewish peoplehood has eclipsed religion—as well as ethnicity and na...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
VerfasserIn:
Pianko, Noam,
MitwirkendeR:
Bush, Andrew,
Dash Moore, Deborah,
Moore, MacDonald,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Key Words in Jewish Studies ; 6
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Physical Description:1 online resource (186 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: A Deceptively Simple Key Word
  • 1. Terms of Debate: Jewish Nationhood and American Peoplehood
  • What Is a Nation? Peoplehood’s European Precursors
  • The Emergence of Peoplehood
  • 1948, Israel, and a Crisis of Terminology
  • From Critique to Code Word
  • Into the American Mainstream
  • 2. State of the Question: Enduring Entity or Constructed Community
  • Unity, Solidarity, Statehood
  • Nationalism, Globalization, and the Limits of Peoplehood
  • Race, Ethnicity, and Peoplehood Studies
  • Jewish Studies and Jewish Peoplehood
  • 3. In a New Key: Can Peoplehood Speak to a Global Era?
  • Jewish: From Periphery to Center, from Describing to Defining
  • Neighborhood: From National to Local, from Core to Cohort
  • Project: From Being to Doing, from Essence to Action
  • Jewishhood Project(s)
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author

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