Jews at Home: The Domestication of Identity

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Editor and Advisers
Acknowledgements
Contents
Note on Transliteration
Introduction: The Dualities of House and Home in Jewish Culture
PART I · IN AND OUT OF THE HOME
	1 The Domestication of Urban Jewish Space and the North-West London Eruv
	2 Every Wise Woman Shoppeth for her House: The Sisterhood Gift Shop and the American Jewish Home in the Mid-Twentieth Century
PART II · SACRED, SECULAR, AND PROFANE IN THE HOME
	3 Reimagining Home, Rethinking Sukkah: Rabbinic Discourse and its Contemporary Implications
	4 From Sacred Symbol to Key Ring: The Ḥamsa in Jewish and Israeli Societies
	5 770 Eastern Parkway: The Rebbe’s Home as Icon
	6 From the Nightclub to the Living Room: Gender, Ethnicity, and Upward Mobility in the 1950s Party Records of Three Jewish Women Comics
PART III · WRITING HOME
	7 Samuel Rawet’s Wandering Jew: Jewish-Brazilian Monologues of Home and Displacement
	8 Home in the Pampas: Alberto Gerchunoff’s Jewish Gauchos
	9 Domesticity and the Home (Page): Blogging and the Blurring of Public and Private among Orthodox Jewish Women
PART IV · FORUM: FEELING AT HOME
	INTRODUCTION
		10 Culture Mavens: Feeling at Home in America
	RESPONSES
		11 At Home in the World
		12 The Co-Construction of Europe as a Jewish Home
		13 Reflections on ‘Culture Mavens’ from an Australian Jewish Perspective
		14 There’s No Place Like Home: America, Israel, and the (Mixed) Blessings of Assimilation
		15 The Last Word: A Response
Contributors
Index