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Title Who is a Jew? : reflections on history, religion, and culture / editor, Leonard J. Greenspoon.

Imprint West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2014]
Publication Info. ©2014

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Description 1 online resource (323 pages)
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Series Studies in jewish civilization
Studies in Jewish civilization.
Note Print version record.
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.
Note Creating a Community: Who Can Belong to the Reform Synagogue?The Birthright Israel Generation: Being a Jewish Young Adult in Contemporary America.
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Language English.
Subject Jews -- Identity -- Congresses.
Juifs -- Identité -- Congrès.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
RELIGION -- Judaism -- History.
Jews -- Identity
Indexed Term Social groups: religious groups & communities
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Added Author Greenspoon, Leonard J. (Leonard Jay), editor.
Other Form: Print version: Greenspoon, Leonard J. Who Is A Jew? : Reflections on History, Religion, and Culture. Ashland : Purdue University Press, ©2015
ISBN 9781612493459 (electronic bk.)
1612493459 (electronic bk.)
9781612493466 (electronic bk.)
1612493467 (electronic bk.)
9781557536921
1557536929
Standard No. AU@ 000054974958
AU@ 000066760113
DEBBG BV043056987
DEBSZ 446444154
DEBSZ 452540240

 
    
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