Persistence and Flexibility: Anthropological Perspectives on the American Jewish Experience

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Index American Indians, Native Americans, 9, 27, 64, 80, 99, 106 AntopoI, 144, 146 Arenas, 137-141 Anthropological study, 3-7, 19-23, 24-26, 39-40, 45-46, 50, 225-227, 260-261; see also ethnography Ashkenazim, Ashkenazic, 5, 24-26, 40, 43-62, 71-76, 139, 228-229; see also Yiddish, Soviet Jews, German Jews, East European Jews Assimilation and acculturation, 8, 9, 16, 24-26, 41, 46-48, 57-60, 66-67, 112, 197-200 Ba'alei teshuvah, 6, 40, 117, 191-193 Bar mitzvah, bat mitzvah, 14, 17, 89, 91, 96, 104, 117-135, 276 Barth, Frederik, 8 Benedict, Ruth, 4, 5, 6, 194 Bialystok, 144, 146, 150 Bible, 107, 268, 269 Blacks, 16, 18, 25, 66, 67, 69, 70, 71, 74, 217 Bobover, 21, 185, 186, 195 Bosk, Charles, 188, 189, 190 Burial societies and services, 146, 213, 214, 226, 232, 234, 244, 245 California, 15, 16, 20, 192, 229 Canada, 11, 13, 15-16, 17, 137, 198 Cemeteries, 14, 138, 140, 213, 214, 223-259 Center and periphery, 271-277 Ceremonial objects, Jewish, 263-277; see also Passover, Purim, Hanukkah, Sabbath Christian fundamentalism, 6 cemeteries, 238, 244, 250 identity, 72-73, 102 religion, 25 Cohen, Steven, 8 Community center, Jewish, 19, 28, 55, 84, 88, 89, 137 Configurationism ("Boasian Culture and Personality Approach"), 4, 5, 6, 19, 185, 194; see also shtetl Conservative Judaism, 20, 47, 83, 96-116, 117, 122, 138, 167, 179, 217, 224, 229, 244, 251, 252, 262, 266-271, 279 Consumers, Jews as, 14-15, 91, 236-237, 260-279 Csikszentmihalyi, Mihalyi, 261, 277 Czestochowa, 144, 146, 155 Demography, 10-11, 47-48, 166-169, 217 Diamond trade, 12 Dietary laws; see Kashrut Douglas, Mary, 19, 28, 260-261 Duker, Abraham J., 24-25, 27 Durkheim, Emile, 118-119, 132, 187-188 Eastern Europe, 144; see Poland, Soviet Union East European Jews, 50, 51-54, 143-164, 166-169, 170-171, 179, 295 296 Index 183-200, 223, 228-229; see also Ashkenazic, Soviet Jews, Yiddish Elderly, 17, 168, 213 Ethnic identity, ethnicity, 8-9, 18, 19, 39-41, 43, 44, 63-65, 79-81, 90-92, 113, 172, 174, 195-197, 261; see also stigma, interethnic strategies Ethnoarchaeology, 225-227 Ethnography, 21-23, 45-46, 98, 184-189; see ,Ilso participation observation, ethnoarchaeology Evolution, cultural, see modernization perspective Family and kin, 8, 13-14, 17-18, 28, 51-54, 83, 149, 152, 165-181, 195-196, 198, 226, 227, 240 Family clubs, 8, 18, 149, 174 Fischer, Claude, 10-11, 27 Fraternal order, general, 157, 251 French in Quebec, 16 Functionalism, 6, 19, 187-188 Gadol, Moise, 58-59 Geertz, Clifford, 19, 188, 260, 262, 271 Gentiles, 18, 23, 24, 25, 26, 46-47, 137, 184, 187; see also political behavior, ethnic identity, Christians German, 231, 239, 248, 251 German Jews, 4, 11, 13, 18, 49, 50, 138, 139, 166, 208-221 Germany, 209-212, 241 Gift and book shops, Jewish Oudaica), 260-279 Glazer, Mark, 8, 18 Goffman, Erving, 2:2, 44-45, 64 Halakha, 263-265, 269-271, 275; see also Mishnah Hanukkah, 25, 139, 174 Hanukkah menorah, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270 Haredi, 262, 266, 267, 268, 271, 273-277; see also orthodox Judaism, Hasidism, Hirsch Hasidism, 11, 12, 13, 15-16, 18, 21, 22-23, 25-26, 72, 75, 140, 183-207, 208, 215, 217 Havurot, 18, 20-21, 25-26, 40, 131 Hebrew, 101, 108, 109, 123, 129, 176, 231, 234, 237, 238, 239, 248, 251 Hebrew school, 24, 40, 96-115, 120, 122, 138 Heilman, Samuel, 10, 14-15, 19, 21-23, 185 Hirsch, Samson Raphael, 140, 208-212 Hirschian Orthodoxy, 208-221 Hispanics, 25, 67, 68, 69, 70, 217 Holocaust, 148, 155, 156, 186 Homogenization; see assimilation and acculturation Immigrant associations (comparative), 143, 145-146, 160; see also landsmanshaft Indianapolis, 43-62 Individualism, 7-8, 18, 24, 118-119, 121, 132; see also Schoenfeld Interethnic strategies, 63-76, 79-92 Intermarriage: Ashkenazic-Sephardic, 51-54, 57; Ashkenazic-Yemenite, 74-75; JewishGentile , 4, 54, 89 Isherwood, Baron, 260-261 Israel, 39, 65, 86, 100, 103, 146, 153-154, 157, 252, 273; Americans in, 262; Israeli goods, 272-273; Israelis, 67, 68, 72, 76; see also Jerusalem Istanbul, 24 Japanese-American, 99, 106 Jerusalem, 262, 274; see also Israel Jewish Defense League, 16 Jewish Federation, Jewish philanthropic in Indianapolis, 48, 52-53, 55, 57, 59-60; program for Soviet Jews, 86-87, 215; in Lincoln, Nebraska, 232 Jewish fraternal orders, 148, 149, 157 Judaica...