“Who Is A Jew?" : Reflections on History, Religion, and Culture / / editor, Leonard J. Greenspoon (The Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization).

• Author: University of Nebraska--Lincoln. Harris Center for Judaic Studies.
• HerausgeberIn: Greenspoon, Leonard J.
• TeilnehmendeR: University of Nebraska--Lincoln. Harris Center for Judaic Studies.; Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization.; Klutznick-Harris Symposium (25th : 2012 : Omaha, Neb.)
• Place / Publishing House: Lafayette, Indiana : : Purdue University Press West,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Jewish civilization ; 25.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (323 p.)
• Notes: "Proceedings of the twenty-fifth annual symposium of the Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization and the Harris Center for Judaic Studies, October 28-29, 2012"--First preliminary page.

Jewish identity is a perennial concern, as Jews seek to define the major features and status of those who "belong," while at the same time draw distinctions between individuals and groups on the "inside" and those on the "outside." From a variety of perspectives, scholarly as well as confessional, there is intense interest among non-Jewish and Jewish commentators alike in the basic question, "Who is a Jew?"This collection of articles draws diverse historical, cultural, and religious insights from scholars who represent a wide range of academic and theological disciplines. Some of the authors d

Table of Contents

Cover; Copyright; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Editor's Introduction; Contributors; Traces of Race: Defining Jewishness in America; It's All in the Memes; Judging and Protecting Jewish Identity in Shaare Tefila Congregation v. Cobb; Who Is a Jew? Reflections of an American Jewish Lawyer on the British Supreme Court Ruling Invalidating Jewish Religious Law; Inventing Jewish History, Culture, and Genetic Identity in Modern New Mexico; "Jewish Genes": Ancient Priests and Modern Jewish Identity; Conversion in Transition: Practical, Conceptual, and Halachic Changes in Israel

Who Is a Jew in Israel?Who Should Be a Jew? Conversion in the Diaspora and in the Modern Nation-State; Who Is a Samaritan?; The Bene Israel and the "Who Is a Jew" Controversy in Israel; Have We Ever Known What a Jew-or Judaean-Is?; Will the "Real" Jew Please Stand Up! Karaites, Israelites, Kabbalists, Messianists, and the Politics of Identity; German-Jewish Identity: Problematic Then, Problematic Now; "I Sometimes Think That I Grew Up on a Different Planet": The Assimilated Jewish Community of the Warsaw Ghetto in the Letters of Wanda Lubelska and Hala Szwambaum

Creating a Community: Who Can Belong to the Reform Synagogue?The Birthright Israel Generation: Being a Jewish Young Adult in Contemporary America