Susan A. Glenn is Howard and Frances Keller Endowed Professor of History and a member of the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Washington. Naomi B. Sokoloff is professor of Near Eastern languages and civilizations and professor of comparative literature at the University of Washington, where she has also served as the Samuel and Althea Stroum Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies. Other contributors are Gad Barzilai, Lila Corwin Berman, Laada Bilaniuk, Jonathan Freedman, Calvin Goldscheider, Susan Martha Kahn, Erica Lehrer, and Shulamit S. Magnus.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction | Who and What Is Jewish?: Controversies and Comparative Perspectives on the Boundaries of Jewish Identity / Susan A. Glenn and Naomi B. Sokoloff1. Are Genes Jewish?: Conceptual Ambiguities in the New Genetic Age / Susan Martha Kahn2. Who Is a Jew?: Categories, Boundaries, Communities, and Citizenship Law in Israel / Gad Barzilai3. Jewish Character?: Stereotype and Identity in Fiction from Israel / Aharon Appelfeld and Sayed KashuaNaomi B. Sokoloff4. “Funny, You Don’t Look Jewish”: Visual Stereotypes and the Making of Modern Jewish Identity / Susan A. Glenn5. Blame, Boundaries, and Birthrights: Jewish Intermarriage in Midcentury America / Lila Corwin Berman6. Boundary Maintenance and Jewish Identity: Comparative and Historical Perspectives / Calvin Goldscheider7. Good Bad Jews: Converts, Conversion, and Boundary Redrawing in Modern Russian Jewry, Notes toward a New Category / Shulamit S. Magnus8. “Jewish Like an Adjective”: Confronting Jewish Identities in Contemporary Poland / Erica Lehrer9. Conversos, Marranos, and Crypto-Latinos: The Jewish Question in the American Southwest (and What It Can Tell Us about Race and Ethnicity) / Jonathan Freedman10. The Contested Logics of Jewish Identity / Laada BilaniukBibliography Contributors Index

"An outstanding collection of essays . . . both scholarly and highly readable . . . It is a quintessential work of Jewish scholarship - the questions are hard and the answers complex, open-ended, and mid-wives of future questions."

Susan A. Glenn is Howard and Frances Keller Endowed Professor of History and a member of the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Washington. Naomi B. Sokoloff is professor of Near Eastern languages and civilizations and professor of comparative literature at the University of Washington, where she has also served as the Samuel and Althea Stroum Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies. Other contributors are Gad Barzilai, Lila Corwin Berman, Laada Bilaniuk, Jonathan Freedman, Calvin Goldscheider, Susan Martha Kahn, Erica Lehrer, and Shulamit S. Magnus.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction | Who and What Is Jewish?: Controversies and Comparative Perspectives on the Boundaries of Jewish Identity / Susan A. Glenn and Naomi B. Sokoloff1. Are Genes Jewish?: Conceptual Ambiguities in the New Genetic Age / Susan Martha Kahn2. Who Is a Jew?: Categories, Boundaries, Communities, and Citizenship Law in Israel / Gad Barzilai3. Jewish Character?: Stereotype and Identity in Fiction from Israel / Aharon Appelfeld and Sayed KashuaNaomi B. Sokoloff4. “Funny, You Don’t Look Jewish”: Visual Stereotypes and the Making of Modern Jewish Identity / Susan A. Glenn5. Blame, Boundaries, and Birthrights: Jewish Intermarriage in Midcentury America / Lila Corwin Berman6. Boundary Maintenance and Jewish Identity: Comparative and Historical Perspectives / Calvin Goldscheider7. Good Bad Jews: Converts, Conversion, and Boundary Redrawing in Modern Russian Jewry, Notes toward a New Category / Shulamit S. Magnus8. “Jewish Like an Adjective”: Confronting Jewish Identities in Contemporary Poland / Erica Lehrer9. Conversos, Marranos, and Crypto-Latinos: The Jewish Question in the American Southwest (and What It Can Tell Us about Race and Ethnicity) / Jonathan Freedman10. The Contested Logics of Jewish Identity / Laada BilaniukBibliography Contributors Index

"An outstanding collection of essays . . . both scholarly and highly readable . . . It is a quintessential work of Jewish scholarship - the questions are hard and the answers complex, open-ended, and mid-wives of future questions."

Susan A. Glenn is Howard and Frances Keller Endowed Professor of History and a member of the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Washington. Naomi B. Sokoloff is professor of Near Eastern languages and civilizations and professor of comparative literature at the University of Washington, where she has also served as the Samuel and Althea Stroum Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies. Other contributors are Gad Barzilai, Lila Corwin Berman, Laada Bilaniuk, Jonathan Freedman, Calvin Goldscheider, Susan Martha Kahn, Erica Lehrer, and Shulamit S. Magnus.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction | Who and What Is Jewish?: Controversies and Comparative Perspectives on the Boundaries of Jewish Identity / Susan A. Glenn and Naomi B. Sokoloff1. Are Genes Jewish?: Conceptual Ambiguities in the New Genetic Age / Susan Martha Kahn2. Who Is a Jew?: Categories, Boundaries, Communities, and Citizenship Law in Israel / Gad Barzilai3. Jewish Character?: Stereotype and Identity in Fiction from Israel / Aharon Appelfeld and Sayed KashuaNaomi B. Sokoloff4. “Funny, You Don’t Look Jewish”: Visual Stereotypes and the Making of Modern Jewish Identity / Susan A. Glenn5. Blame, Boundaries, and Birthrights: Jewish Intermarriage in Midcentury America / Lila Corwin Berman6. Boundary Maintenance and Jewish Identity: Comparative and Historical Perspectives / Calvin Goldscheider7. Good Bad Jews: Converts, Conversion, and Boundary Redrawing in Modern Russian Jewry, Notes toward a New Category / Shulamit S. Magnus8. “Jewish Like an Adjective”: Confronting Jewish Identities in Contemporary Poland / Erica Lehrer9. Conversos, Marranos, and Crypto-Latinos: The Jewish Question in the American Southwest (and What It Can Tell Us about Race and Ethnicity) / Jonathan Freedman10. The Contested Logics of Jewish Identity / Laada BilaniukBibliography Contributors Index

"An outstanding collection of essays . . . both scholarly and highly readable . . . It is a quintessential work of Jewish scholarship - the questions are hard and the answers complex, open-ended, and mid-wives of future questions."