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Persistence and flexibility : anthropological perspectives on the American Jewish experience / edited by Walter P. Zenner. - Albany : State University of New York Press, c1988. - x, 298 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - SUNY series in anthropology and Judaic studies . - SUNY series in anthropology and Judaic studies. .

Includes bibliographies and index.

The cultural anthropology of American Jewry / Walter P. Zenner and Janet S. Belcove-Shalin -- Stigma, identity, and Sephardic-Ashkenazic relations in Indianapolis / Jack Glazier -- American Yemenite Jewish interethnic strategies / Dina Dahbany Miraglia -- Jewish in the USSR, Russian in the USA / Fran Markowitz -- Learning to be a part-time Jew / David Schoem -- Integration into the group and sacred uniqueness / Stuart Schoenfeld -- A home away from home / Hannah Kliger -- Family, kinship, and ethnicity / Myrna Silverman -- The Hasidim of North America / Janet S. Belcove-Shalin -- Separatist Orthodoxy's attitudes towards community / Steven Lowenstein -- That is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day / David Mayer Gradwohl and Hannah Rosenberg Gradwohl -- Jews and Judaica / Samuel Heilman.

ISBN: 0887067484 0887067506 (pbk.)

LCCN: 87024465

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Immigrants--United States.
Jews--Identity.--United States
Jews--Social life and customs.--United States

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Ethnic relations.

LC Class. No.: E184.J5 / P366 1988

Dewey Class. No.: 296.7 / Z45p