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Jewish Peoplehood: An American Innovation
Noam Pianko
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Winner of the 2017 Saul Viener Book Prize from the American Jewish Historical Society
Although fewer American Jews today describe themselves as religious, they overwhelmingly report a strong sense of belonging to the Jewish people. Indeed, Jewish peoplehood has eclipsed religion—as well as ethnicity and nationality—as the essence of what binds Jews around the globe to one another. In Jewish Peoplehood, Noam Pianko highlights the current significance and future relevance of “peoplehood” by tracing the rise, transformation, and return of this novel term. The book tells the surprising story of peoplehood. Though it evokes a sense of timelessness, the ... Read more
Winner of the 2017 Saul Viener Book Prize from the American Jewish Historical Society
Although fewer American Jews today describe themselves as religious, they overwhelmingly report a strong sense of belonging to the Jewish people. Indeed, Jewish peoplehood has eclipsed religion—as well as ethnicity and nationality—as the essence of what binds Jews around the globe to one another. In Jewish Peoplehood, Noam Pianko highlights the current significance and future relevance of “peoplehood” by tracing the rise, transformation, and return of this novel term. The book tells the surprising story of peoplehood. Though it evokes a sense of timelessness, the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
Series
Key Words in Jewish Studies
Number of Pages
186
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813563657
SKU
V9780813563657
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About Noam Pianko
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.
Reviews for Jewish Peoplehood: An American Innovation
"Erudite and engaging, this book should ruffle some Jewish communal feathers ... Recommended. All levels/libraries."
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"Challenges readers with a provocative and startling ideas .. The book helps establish the importance of thinking about America in the context of modern (and post-modern) Jewish history. It provides a significant way of showing how the history of the Jews in ... Read more
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"Challenges readers with a provocative and startling ideas .. The book helps establish the importance of thinking about America in the context of modern (and post-modern) Jewish history. It provides a significant way of showing how the history of the Jews in ... Read more