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