Persistence and flexibility : anthropological perspectives on the American Jewish experience / edited by Walter P. Zenner.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series in anthropology and Judaic studiesPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, c1988.Description: x, 298 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0887067484
  • 0887067506 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 296.7 Z45p
LOC classification:
  • E184.J5 P366 1988
Contents:
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books Tantur Ecumenical Institute Library Main Collection (Lower Floor) 296.7 Z45p (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available SS000936839

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.

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