... chapter one “If the Water Is Sweet” Jewish Women in the Countryside If the water is sweet, we will have a good future. —Bela Trumper de Kaller, interview The miracle takes place: they...

... chapter two “I Worked, I Struggled” Jewish Women in Buenos Aires I worked, I struggled. —Esther Furman, interview Immigration does not only mean to move...

...Jacob Press Same-Sex Unions in Modern Europe: Daniel Deronda, Altneuland, and the Homoerotics of Jewish Nationalism I expounded my subject. The Chief Rabbi remarked: ltThat is the idea of Daniel Deronda." - Theodor Herzl 1 n the spring of 1895, the Hungarian-born, Austrian...

... 3 BLACK, JEWISH, AND INTERRACIAL (I) Racial categorizations may be untenable scientifically; however, their political significance remains a salient aspect ofAmerican life. The idea of racial ambiguity is, in this context, not an...

... 4 BLACK, JEWISH, AND INTERRACIAL (II) The Language of Race As noted in Chapter 3, in order for me to be able to think, speak, orwrite about interviews with biracial people who are also both Jewish and Black, my...

...15 The National Institutions: The legislation that Makes Israel Jewish Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse. -Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Social Contract The state the Jewish Agency created in Palestine mirrors the Zionist philosophy. Signers of...

... The Jew in the City: Amy Kaminsky Buenos Aires in Jewish Fiction Insofar as globalized capital increasingly bypasses the nation state but still needs the material fact of workers on the ground and...

... I Searching for Ethics in a Violent World A Jewish Response to the Paradigm of War 1 From Liberalism to Hitlerism Tracing the Origins of Violence and War Perhaps...

... /   t h r e e   / Jewish Farmers The city Jew, nervous, impatient, fidgety, restless and eager. Little by little he learns to adjust himself to the even disposition of the animal, learns something of...

... KALMAN P. BLAND Issues in Sixteenth-Century Jewish Exegesis In the sixteenth century Judaism underwent the kinds of experiences and absorbed the varieties of new knowledge that usually compel religious communities to...

... 3 the subject at risk Jewish Assimilation and Viennese Portraiture What have I in common with Jews? I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe...

...Collective Memory and Cultural Politics: Narrating and Commemorating the Rescue of Jewish Children by Belgian Convents during the Holocaust suzanne vromen ewish children who were success- Jfully hidden during the...

...In the Land of Milk and Cows: Rural German Jewish Refugees and Post-Holocaust Adaptation rhonda f. levine his article shows how post-Holo- Tcaust studies can be informed by sociology and in turn can contribute to...

...Post-Holocaust Jewish Migration: From Refugees to Transnationals steven j. gold ince the late 1980s, Jewish mi- Sgrants to both Israel and the dias- pora have enjoyed increased options with regard to locations of...

...’’On Halloween We Dressed Up Like KGB Agents Reimagining Soviet Jewish Refugee Identities in the United States kathie friedman he concept of transnationalism Thas recently become for sociolo- gists of immigration a...

...The Paradigmatic Status of Jewish Immigration richard alba n issue that never loses its sali- Aence in the study of immigration concerns how newly arriving individuals and groups insert themselves into the society of...

...Circuits and Networks: The Case of the Jewish Diaspora yen le espiritu uch of the published work in the Mfield of U.S. immigration studies narrowly emphasizes the immigrants’ ‘‘modes of incorporation’’ (Portes and...