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Informationen zum Autor NOAM PIANKO is the Samuel N. Stroum Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Washington and directs the Stroum Jewish Studies Center there. He is the author of Zionism and the Roads Not Taken: Rawidowicz, Kaplan, Kohn. Klappentext Jewish peoplehood has eclipsed religion—as well as ethnicity and nationality—as the prevailing definition of what it means to be a Jew. In Jewish Peoplehood, Noam Pianko examines the history, the current significance, and the future relevance of a term that assumes an increasingly important position in American Jewish and Israeli life. Zusammenfassung Jewish peoplehood has eclipsed religion—as well as ethnicity and nationality—as the prevailing definition of what it means to be a Jew. In Jewish Peoplehood, Noam Pianko examines the history, the current significance, and the future relevance of a term that assumes an increasingly important position in American Jewish and Israeli life. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword, by Deborah Dash Moore, MacDonald Moore, and Andrew BushAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A Deceptively Simple Key Word 1 Terms of Debate: Jewish Nationhood and American Peoplehood What Is a Nation?: Peoplehood’s European PrecursorsThe Emergence of Peoplehood1948, Israel, and a Crisis of TerminologyFrom Critique to Code WordInto the American Mainstream 2 State of the Question: Enduring Entity or Constructed Community Unity, Solidarity, StatehoodNationalism, Globalization, and the Limits of PeoplehoodRace, Ethnicity, and Peoplehood StudiesJewish Studies and Jewish Peoplehood 3 In a New Key: Can Peoplehood Speak to a Global Era? Jewish: From Periphery to Center, From Describing to DefiningNeighborhood: From National to Local, From Core to CohortProject: From Being to Doing, From Essence to ActionJewishhood Project(s) NotesIndex
