Developmental judaism: Challenging the study of American Jewish Identity in The Social Sciences

Contemporary Jewry

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 33-54

  Prell, Riv Ellen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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EID: 33846652161     PISSN: 01471694     EISSN: 18765165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02962401     Document Type: Article

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3. Nathan Glazer and Daniel Moynihan, Beyond the Melting Pot (Second Edition), Cambridge: MIT press.
4. For a review of sociology of American Jewry in the 1970s see Samuel C. Heilman, "The Sociology of American Jewry: the Last Ten Years,"Annual Review of Sociology. Vol 8 135-160.
5. Rela Geffen Monson "The Sociology of the American Jewish Community,"Modern Judaism, Volume 11, Johns Hopkins University Press 1991, pp. 147-156.
6. Bethamie Horowitz has just completed an excellent review of the literature on Jewish identity for die Mandel Foundation. "Indicators of Jewish Identity: Developing a Conceptual Framework for Understanding American Jewry," 1999.
7. See Horowitz for a discussion of this literature.\
8. Sociologists in the 1980s certainly took steps to avoid constructing norms in their measurement of one sort of activity over another. I will discuss this at greater length in the section below on that period.
9. George Marcus and Michael Fischer. Anthropology as Cultural Critique. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.
10. "Introduction,"Beyond the Cultural Turn. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1999, 7.
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12. George Marcus and Dick Cushman, "Ethnographies as Texts."Annual Review of Anthropology. 11: 25-69, 1982.
13. Jewish history and classical studies have reflected a greater concern with these issues. For example, Laura Levitt and Miriam Peskowitz'sJudaism Since Gender, Routledge, 1997, is a good review of both feminist and post modern approaches to the study of Jewish text and culture. Two sessions of the 1999 Association of Jewish Studies in Chicago, Illinois, examined "The Normatlization of Jewish History," in which papers explored the impact of scholarly trends of the last two decades on Jewish history.
14. Personal Narratives Group, Interpreting Women's Lives: Feminist Theory and Personal Narratives. Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1989.
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16. Mary Jo Maynes, Taking the Hard Road: Life Course in French land German Workers' Autobiographies in the Era of Industrialization. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
17. I am using post modernism and post structuralism as synonyms for the purposes of this article.
18. Matti Bunzl, "The City and the Self: Narratives of Spatial Belonging among Austrian Jews."City and Society. 1996. 50-81.
19. Herbert Gans, "The Origin and Growth of a Jewish Community in the Suburbs: A Study of the Jews of Park Forest," in Marshall Sklare editor, The Jews: Social Patterns of an American Group. New York: The Free Press, 1958.
20. Herbert Gans.
21. Gans, 230, 232.
22. Marshall Sklare and Joseph Greenblum, Jewish Identity on the Suburban Frontier: A Study of Group Survival in an Open Society. Second Edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1079 53.
23. Calvin Goldschedier and Zukerman, The Transformation of the Jews.
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25. Bethamie Horowitz, "Connections and Journeys," 1999.
26. Steven M. Cohen and Arnold Eisen, The Jew Within. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000.
27. Debra Renee Kaufman, "Embedded Categories: Identity Among Jewish Young Adults in the United States." Race, Gender, and Class Vol 8, 1999 213.
28. The research on which this draws appears in "Communities of Choice and Memory: Conservative Synagogues in the Late Twentieth Century," In Jack Wertheimer, ed. Jews in the Center. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2000.
29. Michael Fischer, "Ethnicity and the Post Modern Arts of Memory."Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. James Clifford and George Marcus, editors. Berkeley; University of California Press, 1986, p. 195.