Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Editor’s Introduction
Contributors
Traces of Race: Defining Jewishness in America, by Sarah Imhoff
It’s All in the Memes, by Leonard Levin
Judging and Protecting Jewish Identity in Shaare Tefila Congregation v Cobb, by Annalise E Glauz-Todrank
Who Is a Jew? Reflections of an American Jewish Lawyer on the British Supreme Court Ruling Invalidating Jewish Religious Law, by Steven J Riekes
Inventing Jewish History, Culture, and Genetic Identity in Modern New Mexico, by Judith Neulander
“Jewish Genes”: Ancient Priests and Modern Jewish Identity, by Wesley K Sutton
Conversion in Transition: Practical, Conceptual, and Halachic Changes in Israel, by Naftali Rothenberg
Who Is a Jew in Israel?, by Netanel Fisher
Who Should Be a Jew? Conversion in the Diaspora and in the Modern Nation-State, by Michael J Broyde and Mark Goldfeder
Who Is a Samaritan?, by Menachem Mor
The Bene Israel and the “Who Is a Jew” Controversy in Israel, by Joseph R Hodes
Have We Ever Known What a Jew—or Judaean—Is?, by Ori Z Soltes
Will the “Real” Jew Please Stand Up! Karaites, Israelites, Kabbalists, Messianists, and the Politics of Identity, by Aaron J Hahn Tapper
German-Jewish Identity: Problematic Then, Problematic Now, by Steven Leonard Jacobs
“I Sometimes Think That I Grew Up on a Different Planet”: The Assimilated Jewish Community of the Warsaw Ghetto in the Letters of Wanda Lubelska and Hala Szwambaum, by Katarzyna Person
Creating a Community: Who Can Belong to the Reform Synagogue?, by Mara W Cohen Ioannides
The Birthright Israel Generation: Being a Jewish Young Adult in Contemporary America, by Matthew Boxer and Leonard Saxe