A critical commentary on gans' "symbolic ethnicity and symbolic religiosity" and other formulations of ethnicity and religion regarding American Jews

Contemporary Jewry

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 25-43

  Sharot, Stephen ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

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EID: 4644282071     PISSN: 01471694     EISSN: 18765165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02965478     Document Type: Article

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