Persistence and flexibility
Subtitle: anthropological perspectives on the American Jewish experience
By: edited by Walter P. Zenner.
Contributors: Zenner, Walter P.
Series: SUNY series in anthropology and Judaic studies
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: Jews -- United States -- Identity; Jews -- United States -- Social life and customs; Immigrants -- United States; United States -- Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: The cultural anthropology of American Jewry / Walter P. Zenner and Janet S. Belcove-Shalin; title: Stigma, identity, and Sephardic-Ashkenazic relations in Indianapolis / Jack Glazier; title: American Yemenite Jewish interethnic strategies / Dina Dahbany Miraglia; title: Jewish in the USSR, Russian in the USA / Fran Markowitz; title: Learning to be a part-time Jew / David Schoem; title: Integration into the group and sacred uniqueness / Stuart Schoenfeld; title: At home away from home / Hannah Kliger; title: Family, kinship, and ethnicity / Myrna Silverman; title: The Hasidim of North America / Janet S. Belcove-Shalin; title: Separatist Orthodoxy's attitudes towards community / Steven Lowenstein; title: That is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day / David Mayer Gradwohl and Hannah Rosenberg Gradwohl; title: Jews and Judaica / Samuel Heilman.