Boundaries of Jewish Identity

Contents

v Contents acknowledgments vii Introduction: Who and What Is Jewish? 3 Controversies and Comparative Perspectives on the Boundaries of Jewish identity sUsan a. gLenn and naoMi B. soKoLoff 1. Are Genes Jewish? 12 Conceptual ambiguities in the new genetic age sUsan Martha Kahn 2. Who Is a Jew? 27 Categories, Boundaries, Communities, and Citizenship Law in israel gaD BarZiLai 3. Jewish Character? 43 stereotype and identity in fiction from israel by aharon appelfeld and sayed Kashua naoMi B. soKoLoff 4. “Funny,You Don’t Look Jewish” 64 visual stereotypes and the Making of Modern Jewish identity sUsan a. gLenn 5. Blame, Boundaries, and Birthrights 91 Jewish intermarriage in Midcentury america LiLa CorWin BerMan vi Contents 6. Boundary Maintenance and Jewish Identity 110 Comparative and historical Perspectives CaLvin goLDsCheiDer 7. Good Bad Jews 132 Converts, Conversion, and Boundary redrawing in Modern russian Jewry, notes toward a new Category shULaMit s. MagnUs 8.“Jewish Like an Adjective” 161 Confronting Jewish identities in Contemporary Poland eriCa Lehrer 9. Conversos, Marranos, and Crypto-Latinos 188 the Jewish Question in the american southwest (and What it Can tell Us about race and ethnicity) Jonathan freeDMan 10.The Contested Logics of Jewish Identity 203 LaaDa BiLaniUK Bibliography 216 Contributors 233 index 237 ...