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Continuing its distinguished tradition of focusing on central political, sociological, and cultural issues of Jewish life in the last century, this latest volume in the annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry series focuses on how Jewry has been studied in the social science disciplines. Its symposium consists of essays that discuss sources, approaches, and debates in the complementary fields of demography, sociology, economics, and geography. The social sciences are central for the understanding of contemporary Jewish life and have engendered much controversy over the past few decades. To a larg
Jews --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Social conditions --- Research. --- Social conditions. --- Political and social conditions --- United States --- Ethnic relations. --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism
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Volume XXV of the distinguished annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry explores new understandings and approaches to Jewish ""ethnicity."" In current parlance regarding multicultural diversity, Jews are often considered to belong socially to the ""majority,"" whereas ""otherness"" is reserved for ""minorities."" But these group labels and their meanings have changed over time. This volume analyzes how ""ethnic,"" ""ethnicity,"" and ""identity"" have been applied to Jews, past and present, individually and collectively. Most of the symposium papers on the ethnicity of Jewish people and the social
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Continuing its distinguished tradition of focusing on central political, sociological, and cultural issues of Jewish life in the last century, Volume XXVI of the annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry examines the visual revolution that has overtaken Jewish cultural life in the twentieth century onwards, with special attention given to the evolution of Jewish museums. Bringing together leading curators and scholars, Visualizing and Exhibiting Jewish Space and History treats various forms of Jewish representation in museums in Europe and the United States before the Second World War and inquires
Jewish art. --- Jewish artists --- Jewish museums --- Jewish museums. --- Museums --- History. --- Collection management. --- Collection management in museums --- Collections management in museums --- Museum collection management --- Museum collections management --- Jews --- Artists, Jewish --- Art, Jewish --- Hebrew art --- Collections management --- Museum techniques --- Museum storage facilities --- Artists --- Judaism and art --- Art --- Judaica museums --- Judaism
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This volume in the 'Studies in Contemporary Jewry' series provides a nuanced account of the history and development of Jewish humor, while also making a case for the importance of humor in studying any culture.
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