Boundaries of Jewish identity
By: edited by Susan A. Glenn and Naomi B. Sokoloff
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780295990545; 9780295990552
Subjects: Jews; Identity
Notes: "A Samuel and Althea Stroum Book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Are genes Jewish? : conceptual ambiguities in the new genetic age / Susan Martha Kahn; title: Who is a Jew? : categories, boundaries, communities, and citizenship law in Israel / Gad Barzilai; title: Jewish character? : stereotype and identity in fiction from Israel by Aharon Appelfeld and Sayed Kashua / Naomi B. Sokoloff; title: "Funny, you don't look Jewish" : visual stereotypes and the making of modern Jewish identity / Susan A. Glenn; title: Blame, boundaries, and birthrights : Jewish intermarriage in midcentury America / Lila Corwin Berman; title: Boundary maintenance and Jewish identity : comparative and historical perspectives / Calvin Goldscheider; title: Good bad jews : converts, conversion, and boundary redrawing in modern Russian Jewry : notes toward a new category / Shulamit S. Magnus; title: "Jewish like an adjective" : confronting Jewish identities in contemporary Poland / Erica Lehrer; title: Conversos, Marranos, and crypto-Latinos : the Jewish question in the American Southwest (and what it can tell us about race and ethnicity) / Jonathan Freedman; title: The contested logics of Jewish identity / Laada Bilaniuk.