Note on Transliteration
Introduction: Framing Jewish Culture
Simon J. Bronner
PART I: BOUNDARY CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE
1 Representing Jewish Culture: The Problem of Boundaries
Jonathan Webber
2 Trickster’s Children: Genealogies of Jewishness in
Anthropology
Jonathan Boyarin
3 Selective Inclusion: Integration and Isolation of Jews in
Medieval Civic Space
Samuel D. Gruber
4 The Question of Hasidic Sectarianism
Marcin Wodzinski
PART II: NARRATING AND VISUALIZING JEWISH RELATIONSHIPS
5 Framing Father--Son Relationships in Medieval Ashkenaz: Folk
Narratives as Markers of Cultural Difference
Magdalena Luszczynska
6 Sites of Collective Memory in Narratives of the Prague Ghetto
Rella Kushelevsky
7 Wearing Many Hats: The Boundaries of Hair-Covering Practices by
Orthodox Jewish Women in Amish Country
Amy Milligan
8 Chronic Dissatisfaction: Negative Interfaith Romances and the
Reassertion of Jewish Difference
Holly Pearse
PART III: EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES OF JEWISH CULTURE
9 ‘The Night of the Orvietani’ and the Mediation of Jewish and
Italian Identities
Steve Siporin
10 Jewish Museums: Performing the Present through Narrating the
Past
David Clark
11 Framing Jewish Identity in the Museum of Moroccan Judaism
Sophie Wagenhofer
12 The Framing of the Jew: Paradigms of Incorporation and
Difference in the Jewish Heritage Revival in Poland
Magdalena Waligorska
PART IV: HOW REAL IS THE EUROPEAN JEWISH REVIVAL?
13 Beyond Virtual Jewishness: Monuments to Jewish Experience in
Eastern Europe
Ruth Ellen Gruber
14 Unsettling Encounters: Missing Links of European Jewish
Experience and Discourse
Francesco Spagnolo
15 Virtual Transitioning into Real: Jewishness in Central Eastern
Europe
Annamaria Orla-Bukowska
16 Virtual, Virtuous, Vicarious, Vacuous? Toward a Vigilant Use of
Labels
Erica Lehrer
17 Response
Ruth Ellen Gruber
Contributors
Index
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).
"[T]hese essays help us understand the social dynamics of Jewish identity and how identity is constructed in modern life." -- Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews (February/March 2015)
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