Class 25. 4/19 Contemporary Jewish identities
Sarah Imhoff, “Traces of Race: Defining Jewishness in America Download Traces of Race: Defining Jewishness in America,” in Who Is a Jew? Reflections on History, Religion, and Culture (2014), 1–19.
“Pew and the Jews Links to an external site.,” Religion Dispatches, December 12, 2013: Rachel Gordan, “Losing Their ‘Religion Links to an external site.’”; Martin Kavka, “Spiritual (and Jewish) But Not Religious Links to an external site.”; Shaul Magid, “And What of the Non-Jewish Jews Links to an external site.?”
How do contemporary concerns about the categories of “peoplehood,” race, religion, and spirituality suggest questions about the boundaries of Jewish identity today?