| Description |
viii, 249 p. |
| Note |
"A Samuel and Althea Stroum Book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Jews -- Identity.
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Jews -- United States -- Identity.
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Jews -- Israel -- Identity.
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Jews -- Europe -- Identity.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Glenn, Susan A. (Susan Anita)
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Sokoloff, Naomi B.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780295990545 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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9780295990552 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780295800837 (electronic bk.) |
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