Preface

Introduction

1. The Cultural Anthropology of American Jewry
Walter P. Zenner and Janet S. Belcove-Shalin

Part I. IDENTITIES AND IDENTIFICATION

2. Stigma, Identity, and Sephardic-Ashkenazic Relations in Indianapolis
Jack Glazier

3. American Yemenite Jewish Interethnic Strategies
Dina Dahbany-Miraglia

4. Jewish in the USSR, Russian in the USA
Fran Markowitz

5. Learning to Be a Part-Time Jew
David Schoem

6. Integration into the Group and Sacred Uniqueness: Analysis of an Adult Bat Mitzvah
Stuart Schoenfeld

Part II. ARENAS OF JEWISH LIFE

7. A Home Away from Home: Participation in Jewish Immigrant Associations in America
Hannah Kliger

8. Family, Kinship, and Ethnicity: Strategies for Social Mobility
Myrna Silverman

9. The Hasidim of North America: A Review of the Literature
Janet S. Belcove-Shalin

10. Separatist Orthodoxy's Attitudes Toward Community: The Breuer Community in Germany and America
Steven Lowenstein

11. That Is the Pillar of Rachel's Grave Unto This Day: An Ethnoarchaeological Comparison of Two Jewish Cemeteries in Lincoln, Nebraska
David Mayer Gradwohl and Hanna Rosenberg Gradwohl

12. Jews and Judaica: Who Owns and Buys What?
Samuel Heilman

Glossary

Contributors

Index