Boundaries of Jewish Identity

Contributors

233 Contributors gaD BarZiLai is Professor of Political Science, Law, and International Studies in the Jackson School of International Studies and the Law, Societies, and Justice Program at the University of Washington. He is the Lucia S. and Herbert L. Pruzan Professor of Jewish Studies and serves as the chair of the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Washington. He is a former Professor of Political Science and Law atTel Aviv University. He is the author of numerous articles, several edited volumes and monographs, and four books, including Communities and Law: Politics and Cultures of Legal Identities (University of Michigan Press, 2003), which won the Yonathan Shapiro Prize for the best book in Israel Studies awarded by the Association of Israel Studies. LiLa CorWin BerMan is Associate Professor of History at Temple University. She holds the Murray Friedman Chair in American Jewish History and directs the Feinstein Center forAmerican Jewish History. She is the author of Speaking of Jews:Rabbis,Intellectuals,and the Creation of an American Public Identity (University of California Press, 2009) as well as several articles, including “Jews and the Ambivalence of Middle Classness” (American Jewish History, 2008). LaaDa BiLaniUK is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington. Her book Contested Tongues: Language Politics and Cultural Correction in Ukraine (Cornell University Press, 2005), won the Best Book in Slavic Linguistics award of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages. In it she examines purism and Ukrainian-Russian language mixing to understand the process by which modern societies seek to confer or deny social legitimacy to others based on language ideology. She is currently researching the cultural politics of music and popular culture in Ukraine. 234 Contributors Jonathan freeDMan is Professor of English andAmerican Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of The Temple of Culture: Assimilation and Anti-Semitism in Literary Anglo-America (Oxford University Press, 2000) and Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity (Columbia University Press, 2008). He has also edited (with Sara Blair) a volume of essays called Jewish in America (University of Michigan Press). sUsan a. gLenn is the Howard and Frances Keller Endowed Professor in History and a member of the Jewish Studies Program faculty at the University of Washington. She is the author of Daughters of the Shtetl: Life and Labor in the Immigrant Generation (Cornell University Press, 1990), which won the American Historical Association’s Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, and Female Spectacle:The Theatrical Roots of Modern Feminism (Harvard University Press, 2000). Her recent articles include “In the Blood? Consent, Descent, and the Ironies of Jewish Identity” (Jewish Social Studies, 2002) and “The Vogue of Jewish Self-Hatred in Post– World War II America” (Jewish Social Studies, 2006). She serves on the Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society. CaLvin goLDsCheiDer is Samuel Ungerleider Jr.Professor Emeritus of Judaic Studies and Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Brown University . His recent books include Israel’s Changing Society:Population,Ethnicity and Development (Westview Press, 2002); Cultures in Conflict:The Arab-Israeli Conflict (Greenwood Press, 2002); Studying the Jewish Future (University of Washington Press, 2004); and Immigration, Gender, and FamilyTransitions to Adulthood in Sweden (University Press of America, 2006). sUsan Martha Kahn isAssociate Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University and Lecturer in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures. Her book Reproducing Jews:A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception in Israel (Duke University Press, 2000) won the National Jewish Book Award and the Eileen Basker Memorial Prize, given by the Society for Medical Anthropology in recognition of outstanding research on gender and health. Contributors 235 eriCa Lehrer is Assistant Professor in the Department of History and the Department of Sociology andAnthropology at Concordia University in Montreal, where she also holds the Canada Research Chair in PostConflict Memory, Ethnography, and Museology. She is the author of “Repopulating Jewish Poland—in Wood” (Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, 2003) and “Jewish? Heritage? In Poland? A Brief Manifesto and an Ethnographic-Design Intervention into Jewish Tourism in Poland” (Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal, 2007). She also translated from Polish to English the book Difficult Questions in Polish-Jewish Dialogue, edited by Maciej Kozlowski, Andrzej Folwarczny, and Michal Bilewicz, (Jacek Santorski,AgencjaWydawnicza, 2006). She is completing a book manuscript titled “Remaking Memory: How Jews and Poles Are Salvaging Jewish Heritage in Poland,” based on ethnographic fieldwork in Poland, Israel, and the...