Persistence and Flexibility: Anthropological Perspectives on the American Jewish Experience

Contents

Contents Preface ix Introduction 1 1 The Cultural Anthropology of American Jewry 3 Walter P. Zenner and Janet S. Belcove-Shalin Part I IDENTITIES AND IDENTIFICATION 39 2 Stigma, Identity and Sephardic-Ashkenazic Relations in Indianapolis 41 Jack Glazier 3 American Yemenite Jewish Interethnic Strategies 63 Dina Dahbany-Miraglia 4 Jewish in the USSR, Russian in the USA 79 Fran Markowitz 5 Learning to Be a Part-Time Jew 96 David Schoem 6 Integration into the Group and Sacred Uniqueness: Analysis of an Adult Bat Mitzvah 117 Stuart Schoenfeld Part II ARENAS OF JEWISH LIFE 137 7 A Home Away from Home: Participation in Jewish Immigrant Associations in America 139 Hannah Kliger 8 Family, Kinship, and Ethnicity: Strategies for Social Mobility 165 Myrna Silverman viii Contents 9 The Hasidim of North America: A Review of the Literature 183 Janet S. 13elcove-Shalin 10 Separatist Orthodoxy's Altitudes Toward Community: The Breuer Community in Germany and America 208 Steven Lowenstein 11 That Is the Pillar of Rachel's Grave Unto This Day: An Ethnoarchaeologica,! Comparison of Two Jewish Cemeteries in Lincoln, Nebraska 223 David Mayf~r Gradwohl and Hanna Rosenberg Gradwohl 12 Jews and Judaica: Who Owns and Buys What? 260 Samuel Heilman Glossary 281 Contributors 291 Index 295 ...