Description:
The subject of Jewish identity is one of the most vexed and contested issues of modern religious and ethnic group history. This interdisciplinary collection draws on work in law, anthropology, history, sociology, literature, and popular culture to consider contemporary and historical responses to the question: "Who and what is Jewish?"
Brief description: Naomi B. Sokoloff is professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at the University of Washington's Stroum Center for Jewish Studies. Her publications include Imagining the Child in Modern Jewish Fiction (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992) and several edited volumes, most recently Boundaries of Jewish Identity (with Susan A. Glenn; UW Press, 2010).
Review Quotes:
"An outstanding collection of essays . . . both scholarly and highly readable . . . It is a quintessential work of Jewish scholarship - the questions are hard and the answers complex, open-ended, and mid-wives of future questions."
--Riv-Ellen Prell "Lilith" (1/1/2011 12:00:00 AM)