Below is a listing of supplementary readings for each of the sessions in Jewish Peoplehood: The Meaning of the Collective in Modern Jewish Life. Where possible, we have included a link to the online article.
SESSION ONE: INTRODUCTION TO JEWISH PEOPLEHOOD: ETHNICITY, FAMILY, OR RELIGION?
Dr. Erica Brown, Dr. Misha Galperin, The Case for Jewish Peoplehood, 2008, Chapter One: “Defining Peoplehood.”
(a copy of this book may be purchased)
Steven M. Cohen and Jack Wertheimer, “Whatever Happened to the Jewish People,” Commentary Magazine, June 2006.
Steven M. Cohen and Arnold M. Eisen, The Jew Within: Self, Family, and Community in America, 2000. Chapters 1, 2 and 8.
(a copy of this book may be purchased)
Eliyahu Stern, “ Realigning Jewish Peoplehood ,“ On The Square, 2008.
SESSION TWO: PEOPLEHOOD, IDENTITY, AND COVENANT
Moshe Halbertal, “On Modern Jewish Identities,” in Jewish Peoplehood: Change and Challenge, 2009, ed. Menachem Revivi, Ezra Kopelowitz.
(article will be handed out in class)
SESSION THREE: PEOPLEHOOD AND THE CENTRALITY OF PLACE
David Breakstone, “Keep Dreaming: Peoplehood vs. Zionism,” Jerusalem Post, July 22, 2011.
Yehuda Kurtzer, “Can a Jew Legally Cancel His Jewishness?” Jerusalem Post, May 2011.
Arnold Eisen, “Rebuilding Jewish Communities,” Sh’ma, November 2000.
SESSION FOUR: THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE COLLECTIVE
Ezra Kopelowtiz, “A Sociologist’s Guide for Building Jewish Peolehood,” in Jewish Peoplehood: Change and Challenge, 2009, ed. Menachem Revivi, Ezra Kopelowitz.
(article will be handed out in class)
Riv-Ellen Prell, “Against the Cultural Grain: Jewish Peoplehood for the 21st Century,” in Jewish Peoplehood: Change and Challenge, 2009, ed. Menachem Revivi, Ezra Kopelowitz.
(article will be handed out in class)
SESSION FIVE: WHO ARE THE PEOPLE IN YOUR PEOPLEHOOD? BELONGING AND BOUNDARIES
Shaul Magid, “Be the Jew You Make: Jews, Judaism, and Jewishness in Post-Ethnic America,” Sh’ma, March 2011.
Steven M. Cohen and Jack Wertheimer, “What is So Great About Post-Ethnic Judaism?” Sh’ma, March 2011.
Laura Geller, “A New Understanding of Peopelehood: The Jewish Conversation,” in Jewish Peoplehood: Change and Challenge, 2009, ed. Menachem Revivi, Ezra Kopelowitz.
(article will be handed out in class)
SESSION SIX: THE LANGUAGE OF JEWISH PEOPLEHOOD: EXPRESSIONS OF THE JEWISH COLLECTIVE
Erica Brown, “The Shelf Life of Jewish Peoplehood," The Jewish Week, January 2011.
SESSION SEVEN: THE “IKKARIM” OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE
Dr. Misha Galperin, “Funding Peoplehood: Why the Jewish Community Should Care About an Unsexy Cause,” The Forward, July 8, 2011.
Daniel Septimus, “The Real Peoplehood Problem,” The Forward, July 18, 2011.
Dr. Misha Galperin, “Continuing a Peoplehood Debate,” The Forward, July 26, 2011.
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