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Jewish Peoplehood
An American Innovation
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Noam Pianko
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Englisch
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2015
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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.
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 term actually emerged in the United States in the 1930s, where it was introduced by American Jewish leaders, most notably Rabbi Stephen Wise and Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, with close ties to the Zionist movement. It engendered a sense of unity that transcended religious differences, cultural practices, geographic distance, economic disparity, and political divides, fostering solidarity with other Jews facing common existential threats, including the Holocaust, and establishing a closer connection to the Jewish homeland. But today, Pianko points out, as globalization erodes the dominance of nationalism in shaping collective identity, Jewish peoplehood risks becoming an outdated paradigm. He explains why popular models of peoplehood fail to address emerging conceptions of ethnicity, nationalism, and race, and he concludes with a much-needed roadmap for a radical reconfiguration of Jewish collectivity in an increasingly global era.
Innovative and provocative, Jewish Peoplehood provides fascinating insight into a term that assumes an increasingly important position at the heart of American Jewish and Israeli life.
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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.
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"This work significantly advances the understanding and assessment of a central figure of American Judaism."
— Religious Studies Review"Erudite and engaging, this book should ruffle some Jewish communal feathers ... Recommended. All levels/libraries."
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Frontmatter
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Foreword
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: A Deceptively Simple Key Word
1 - 1. Terms of Debate: Jewish Nationhood and American Peoplehood
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What Is a Nation? Peoplehood’s European Precursors
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The Emergence of Peoplehood
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1948, Israel, and a Crisis of Terminology
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From Critique to Code Word
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Into the American Mainstream
56 - 2. State of the Question: Enduring Entity or Constructed Community
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Unity, Solidarity, Statehood
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Nationalism, Globalization, and the Limits of Peoplehood
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Race, Ethnicity, and Peoplehood Studies
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Jewish Studies and Jewish Peoplehood
106 - 3. In a New Key: Can Peoplehood Speak to a Global Era?
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Jewish: From Periphery to Center, from Describing to Defining
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Neighborhood: From National to Local, from Core to Cohort
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Project: From Being to Doing, from Essence to Action
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Jewishhood Project(s)
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Index
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About the Author
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2. September 2019
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Schlagwörter für dieses Buch
Noam Pianko; Jewish Studies; history; religion; judaism; jewish; American Jewish Historical Society?; Winner of the 2017 Saul Viener Book Prize; Saul Viener Book Prize; religious; peoplehood; ethnicity; nationality; American Jewish leaders; transformation; Rabbi; Stephen Wise; Mordecai Kaplan; zionism; zionist movement; unity; cultural practices; cultural geography; geographic distance; economic; economic disparity; political divides; Jew; political; connection; threat; Holocaust; homeland; globalization; identity; nationalism; race; global; Israel; Israeli; life; community; solidarity; statehood; challenge; modern; post-modern; United States; US; American Judaism; diaspora; values; tradition; experience
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For universities and colleges of further and higher education
