Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction: A Deceptively Simple Key Word 1
6. 1. Terms of Debate: Jewish Nationhood and American Peoplehood
7. What Is a Nation? Peoplehood’s European Precursors 17
8. The Emergence of Peoplehood 27
9. 1948, Israel, and a Crisis of Terminology 48
10. From Critique to Code Word 51
11. Into the American Mainstream 56
12. 2. State of the Question: Enduring Entity or Constructed Community
13. Unity, Solidarity, Statehood 71
14. Nationalism, Globalization, and the Limits of Peoplehood 82
15. Race, Ethnicity, and Peoplehood Studies 92
16. Jewish Studies and Jewish Peoplehood 106
17. 3. In a New Key: Can Peoplehood Speak to a Global Era?
18. Jewish: From Periphery to Center, from Describing to Defining 119
19. Neighborhood: From National to Local, from Core to Cohort 125
20. Project: From Being to Doing, from Essence to Action 129
21. Jewishhood Project(s) 133
22. Notes 141
23. Index 163
24. About the Author 173