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Title Persistence and flexibility : anthropological perspectives on the American Jewish experience / edited by Walter P. Zenner
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1988

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Description 1 online resource (x, 298 pages) : illustrations
Series SUNY series in anthropology and Judaic studies
SUNY series in anthropology and Judaic studies.
Contents The cultural anthropology of American Jewry / Walter P. Zenner and Janet S. Belcove-Shalin -- Stigma, identity, and Sephardic-Ashkenazic relations in Indianapolis / Jack Glazier -- American Yemenite Jewish interethnic strategies / Dina Dahbany Miraglia -- Jewish in the USSR, Russian in the USA / Fran Markowitz -- Learning to be a part-time Jew / David Schoem -- Integration into the group and sacred uniqueness / Stuart Schoenfeld -- At home away from home / Hannah Kliger -- Family, kinship, and ethnicity / Myrna Silverman -- The Hasidim of North America / Janet S. Belcove-Shalin -- Separatist Orthodoxy's attitudes towards community / Steven Lowenstein -- That is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day / David Mayer Gradwohl and Hannah Rosenberg Gradwohl -- Jews and Judaica / Samuel Heilman
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Jews -- United States -- Identity
Jews -- United States -- Social life and customs
Immigrants -- United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Ethnic relations
Immigrants
Jews -- Identity
Jews -- Social life and customs
SUBJECT United States -- Ethnic relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140043
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
Author Zenner, Walter P
ISBN 058509215X
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0887067506
9780887067501
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9781438424798