Boundaries of Jewish Identity

Index

237 Index Aaron, priestly line of descent from, 14 Abrams,William, 103 Adorno,TheodorW ., 76 Age ofWonders,The (Appelfeld), 50 AgudathYisrael, 29 Ahiasaf house, 137, 138–39 Akeda, 51 Alcalá, Kathleen, 192 Aleichem, Sholom, 159n45, 160n58 Aleksandrov, [P.A.], 148–49 Allport, Gordon W., 75–76 AllWhom I Have Loved (Appelfeld), 50 Alter, Robert, 63n21 Altneuland (Herzl), 60 American Jewish Committee, 18, 100 American Jewish experience: community and identity, 110–25, 128–31; Crypto-Jews in Southwest, 188–202; intermarriage, 91–109, 116, 117, 119–20, 126–27; narratives of, 189; visual stereotypes and Jewish identity , 64–90 American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 15 American JewishYear Book, 102–3 American Journal of Human Genetics, Diasporic communities study in, 14 “American” look, 72, 73, 75, 87n31 ancestry, genetic tracing of. See population genetics Anderson, Benedict, 206 Anti-Defamation League, 83 anti-race science, 67–72, 74–75, 85n9, 86n21, 86n26, 87n31 antisemitism: and anti-race science, 67–72, 74–75, 85n9, 86n21, 86n26, 87n31; and blood libel trials, 144–45, 148–49, 159n45; Christian, 133–34, 183n13; experience of, as theme of Hobson’s Gentleman’s Agreement , 72–74; Goldenweiser’s “Jewish Face,” 69; Kupernik on anti-Jewish writing, 147; Nazi, 13, 68, 69–71, 74, 173, 183n13; and the other, 180; Polish, 165, 174–75, 180, 183n13, 185n26; racial determination and awareness experiments and, 71–72, 75–76, 87–88n45; Russian writers and, 150; social reality of, in Appelfeld’s “Transformation,” 43–53, 60–61; and threat of “secret Jew,” 78–79 anusim (Heb., “forced ones”): rabbinate on, 194–95; Society for the Study of Crypto-Jews and Anusim, 191–92; vs. conversos, 191 apostates, Jewish, in tsarist Russia, 132–60 Appelfeld,Aharon, 50, 52; “Transformation ,” 43–53, 60–61 Arab Palestinians in Israel: and Hebrewlanguage study, 63n25; Kashua as voice for, 45–46, 58, 60–61; in Kashua’s “Herzl Disappears at Midnight,” 43–46, 53–61; military service and, 37; non-Jewish citizenship and, 34; on restricting Jewish identity, 34, 35; right of return and, 29, 34, 35, 41n10; on territorial citizenship, 34, 35 ArabWork (sitcom, Kashua), 60 “Arkadi HaliwaTakes the Number Five” (Keret), 53–54 Arnsteiner, Joseph von, 135 Ashkenazi Jews: in American Southwest, 192; genetic ties to Middle Eastern 238 Index Ahskenazi Jews (cont.) andTurkish populations, 16; Kohen gene among, 14; racial/ethnic tensions between Sephardic Jews and, 88n59, 189; screening for genetic diseases among, 16–17, 25n13; as subjects in genetic research, 25n13; U.S. immigration of, 188–89 assimilation: anxieties about, 64, 78–79; Jewish community and identity and, 115, 116, 119–20; Jewish plasticity and promotion of, 67–68; in post–World War II era, 79; racial awareness experiments and, 75–77; second-generation American Jews and, 71; “secret Jew” as ally, 79; and visual epistemology, 79. See also “Funny,You Don’t Look Jewish” (joke) assisted reproduction, 19-20, 25–26n16; and donor egg programs, 20–21; Jewish law and, 20–21; origin of Jewishness in genetic material, 19–22; Orthodox Jews, and use of, 20; rabbinic debates about, 19–22; transmitting Jewishness, egg vs. womb debate, 19–22; ultraOrthodox Jews, and use of, 17 Auschwitz: crosses controversy, 163; and Holocaust tourist industry, 164; mortality statistics of, 182n4; revising narrative of, 162–63 Austrin, Harvey, 77 authoritarian personalities, racial perception and, 75–76 Autoemancipation (Pinsker), 140 Avek fun folk (Zitron), 137–41, 142–47, 152–53, 157n28, 158n33, 158–59n40 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 208 Bakst, Nicholas, 151, 159n51 Baldwin, James, 189 Bamberger, Bernard J., 97, 99–100 Barth, Fredrik, 206 Barthes, Roland, 60 Basic Laws, Israel, 29 Bauman, Zygmunt, 163 Beilis, blood libel trial of, 159n45 Bell, Howard, 107n19 Ben-Gurion, David, 12, 38 Ben-Ur,Aviva, 88n59 Berlin, Naftali Zvi, 152 Bernays, Martha, 135 Bernfeld, Simon, 139 Bettelheim, Bruno, 100 Beyond the Pale (Nathans), 160n58 Bialik, Hayim Nahman, 139 biotechnologies. See assisted reproduction ; medical genetics; population genetics Birthright, tours to Israel, 104 Bloch, Jan, 150 Błoński, Jan, 177–78 blood libel: in Aleichem’s Bloody Hoax, 159n45; church and, 134; Jewish apostates and, 133–35, 140, 144–45; Khvolson’s denunciation of, 144–45; Kupernik’s defense against, 148–49; Nicholas I and, 145, 146; trials in Russia, 144–145, 148–49, 159n45 blood logic, Jews and, 65, 66 blood purity, race and, 196–97. See also limpieza de sangre Bloody Hoax, The (Aleichem), 159n45, 160n58 Bnei Israel of Ethiopia, 4–5, 15, 24–25n10 Bnei Menashe of India, 15, 24–25n10 Boas, Franz, 66, 67–69, 71, 87n31 Boasians...