Boundaries of Jewish identity [electronic resource] / edited by Susan A. Glenn and Naomi B. Sokoloff. - Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2010. - viii, 249 p.

"A Samuel and Althea Stroum Book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780295800837 (electronic bk.)




Jews--Identity.
Jews--Identity.--United States
Jews--Identity.--Israel
Jews--Identity.--Europe


Electronic books.

DS143 / .B76 2010

305.892/4