“Who Is A Jew?" : Reflections on History, Religion, and Culture

“Who Is A Jew?" Reflections on History, Religion, and Culture

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, schola...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: University of Nebraska--Lincoln. Harris Center for Judaic Studies (-), Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization, Klutznick-Harris Symposium
Other Authors: Greenspoon, Leonard (Editor), Greenspoon, Leonard J. (Leonard Jay)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press 2014
2014.
Edition:1st ed
Series:Studies in Jewish civilization ; 25.
Subjects:
Jews > Identity.
Jews > Identity > Congresses.
Social groups: religious groups & communities
Conference proceedings.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009637727506719
Table of 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
  • Creating a Community: Who Can Belong to the Reform Synagogue?The Birthright Israel Generation: Being a Jewish Young Adult in Contemporary America

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