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1 online resource |
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Key words in Jewish studies ; VI |
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Key words in Jewish studies ; v. 6.
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| Contents |
Title -- Series Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Deceptively Simple Key Word -- 1 Terms of Debate. Jewish Nationhood and American Peoplehood -- What Is a Nation? Peoplehood's European Precursors -- The Emergence of Peoplehood -- 1948, Israel, and a Crisis of Terminology -- From Critique to Code Word -- Into the American Mainstream -- 2 State of the Question. Enduring Entity or Constructed Community -- Unity, Solidarity, Statehood -- Nationalism, Globalization, and the Limits of Peoplehood -- Race, Ethnicity, and Peoplehood Studies -- Jewish Studies and Jewish Peoplehood -- 3 In a New Key. Can Peoplehood Speak to a Global Era? -- Jewish. From Periphery to Center, from Describing to Defining -- Neighborhood. From National to Local, from Core to Cohort -- Project. From Being to Doing, from Essence to Action -- Jewishhood Project(s) -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author |
| Summary |
Jewish peoplehood has eclipsed religion--as well as ethnicity and nationality--as the prevailing definition of what it means to be a Jew. In Jewish Peoplehood, Noam Pianko examines the history, the current significance, and the future relevance of a term that assumes an increasingly important position in American Jewish and Israeli life |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Jews -- Identity.
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Jews -- United States -- Identity
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Jews -- United States -- Politics and government -- 21st century
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Jews -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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Israel and the diaspora.
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RELIGION -- Judaism -- History.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Israel and the diaspora
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Jews -- Identity
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Jews -- Politics and government
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Jews -- Social conditions
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2014040075 |
| ISBN |
9780813563664 (e-book (web pdf)) |
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9780813573885 (e-book (epub)) |
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0813573882 (e-book (epub)) |
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0813563666 |
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9780813563664 |
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