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Persistence and Flexibility: Anthropological Perspectives on the American Jewish Experience

Persistence and Flexibility: Anthropological Perspectives on the American Jewish Experience

Zenner, Walter P.

Paperback

Series: Suny Anthropology and Judaic Studies

Anthropology

ISBN10: 0887067506
ISBN13: 9780887067501
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jul 8 1988
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Using a variety of anthropological approaches, the authors illustrate how the Jewish identity has persisted in the United States despite great subcultural variation and a wide range of adaptations. Within the various essays, attention is given to both mainstream Jews and to the Hasidim, Yemenites, Indian Sephardim, Soviet Emigres, and Jews for Jesus. Institutions such as the family, the school, and the synagogue, are considered through techniques of participation/ observation and in archeological research. Persistence and Flexibility provides a means of viewing the Jewish community through the prism of key events, or rituals, and symbols.

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