Persistence and Flexibility

Walter P. Zenner is Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Albany. He is the author of Persistence and Flexibility: Anthropological Perspectives on the American Jewish Experience, also published by SUNY Press

• Preface Introduction 1. The Cultural Anthropology of American JewryWalter P. Zenner and Janet S. Belcove-Shalin Part I. IDENTITIES AND IDENTIFICATION 2. Stigma, Identity, and Sephardic-Ashkenazic Relations in IndianapolisJack Glazier 3. American Yemenite Jewish Interethnic StrategiesDina Dahbany-Miraglia 4. Jewish in the USSR, Russian in the USAFran Markowitz 5. Learning to Be a Part-Time JewDavid Schoem 6. Integration into the Group and Sacred Uniqueness: Analysis of an Adult Bat MitzvahStuart Schoenfeld Part II. ARENAS OF JEWISH LIFE 7. A Home Away from Home: Participation in Jewish Immigrant Associations in AmericaHannah Kliger 8. Family, Kinship, and Ethnicity: Strategies for Social MobilityMyrna Silverman 9. The Hasidim of North America: A Review of the LiteratureJanet S. Belcove-Shalin 10. Separatist Orthodoxy's Attitudes Toward Community: The Breuer Community in Germany and AmericaSteven Lowenstein 11. That Is the Pillar of Rachel's Grave Unto This Day: An Ethnoarchaeological Comparison of Two Jewish Cemeteries in Lincoln, NebraskaDavid Mayer Gradwohl and Hanna Rosenberg Gradwohl 12. Jews and Judaica: Who Owns and Buys What?Samuel Heilman Glossary Contributors Index