Walter P. Zenner 
Persistence and Flexibility [PDF ebook] 
Anthropological Perspectives on the American Jewish Experience

Preface
Introduction

1.
The Cultural Anthropology of American Jewry

Walter P. Zenner and Janet S. Belcove-Shalin

Part I. IDENTITIES AND IDENTIFICATION

2.
Stigma, Identity, and Sephardic-Ashkenazic Relations in Indianapolis

Jack Glazier

3.
American Yemenite Jewish Interethnic Strategies

Dina Dahbany-Miraglia

4.
Jewish in the USSR, Russian in the USA

Fran Markowitz

5.
Learning to Be a Part-Time Jew

David Schoem

6.
Integration into the Group and Sacred Uniqueness: Analysis of an Adult Bat Mitzvah

Stuart Schoenfeld

Part II. ARENAS OF JEWISH LIFE

7.
A Home Away from Home: Participation in Jewish Immigrant Associations in America

Hannah Kliger

8.
Family, Kinship, and Ethnicity: Strategies for Social Mobility

Myrna Silverman

9.
The Hasidim of North America: A Review of the Literature

Janet S. Belcove-Shalin

10.
Separatist Orthodoxy’s Attitudes Toward Community: The Breuer Community in Germany and America

Steven Lowenstein

11.
That Is the Pillar of Rachel’s Grave Unto This Day: An Ethnoarchaeological Comparison of Two Jewish Cemeteries in Lincoln, Nebraska

David Mayer Gradwohl and Hanna Rosenberg Gradwohl

12.
Jews and Judaica: Who Owns and Buys What?

Samuel Heilman

Glossary
Contributors
Index

Walter P. Zenner is Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Albany. He is the author of Persistence and Flexibility: Anthropological Perspectives on the American Jewish Experience, also published by SUNY Press