Simon J. Bronner is Distinguished Professor of American Studies and Folklore and Founding Director of the Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies at the Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg. He is also the convener of the Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Section of the American Folklore Society. His books include Folklore: The Basics (2017) and Explaining Traditions: Folk Behavior in Modern Culture (2011).

• Note on TransliterationIntroduction: Framing Jewish CultureSimon J. BronnerPART I: BOUNDARY CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE1 Representing Jewish Culture: The Problem of BoundariesJonathan Webber2 Trickster’s Children: Genealogies of Jewishness in AnthropologyJonathan Boyarin3 Selective Inclusion: Integration and Isolation of Jews in Medieval Civic SpaceSamuel D. Gruber4 The Question of Hasidic SectarianismMarcin WodzinskiPART II: NARRATING AND VISUALIZING JEWISH RELATIONSHIPS5 Framing Father--Son Relationships in Medieval Ashkenaz: Folk Narratives as Markers of Cultural DifferenceMagdalena Luszczynska6 Sites of Collective Memory in Narratives of the Prague GhettoRella Kushelevsky7 Wearing Many Hats: The Boundaries of Hair-Covering Practices by Orthodox Jewish Women in Amish CountryAmy Milligan8 Chronic Dissatisfaction: Negative Interfaith Romances and the Reassertion of Jewish DifferenceHolly PearsePART III: EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES OF JEWISH CULTURE9 ‘The Night of the Orvietani’ and the Mediation of Jewish and Italian IdentitiesSteve Siporin10 Jewish Museums: Performing the Present through Narrating the PastDavid Clark11 Framing Jewish Identity in the Museum of Moroccan JudaismSophie Wagenhofer12 The Framing of the Jew: Paradigms of Incorporation and Difference in the Jewish Heritage Revival in PolandMagdalena WaligorskaPART IV: HOW REAL IS THE EUROPEAN JEWISH REVIVAL?13 Beyond Virtual Jewishness: Monuments to Jewish Experience in Eastern EuropeRuth Ellen Gruber14 Unsettling Encounters: Missing Links of European Jewish Experience and DiscourseFrancesco Spagnolo15 Virtual Transitioning into Real: Jewishness in Central Eastern EuropeAnnamaria Orla-Bukowska16 Virtual, Virtuous, Vicarious, Vacuous? Toward a Vigilant Use of LabelsErica Lehrer17 ResponseRuth Ellen GruberContributorsIndex