Background Reading for Peoplehood
Lecture 1
- Dr. Erica Brown, Dr. Misha Galperin, The Case for Jewish Peoplehood, 2008, Chapter One: “Defining Peoplehood.”
- Steven M. Cohen and Arnold M. Eisen, The Jew Within: Self, Family, and Community in America, 2000. Chapters 1, 2 and 8.
- Steven M. Cohen and Jack Wertheimer, “Whatever Happened to the Jewish People,” Commentary Magazine, June 2006.
- Eliyahu Stern, “Realigning Jewish Peoplehood,” On The Square, 2008.
Lecture 2
- Steven M. Cohen and Arnold M. Eisen, The Jew Within: Self, Family, and Community in America, 2000. Chapters 1, 2 and 8.
- Moshe Halbertal, “On Modern Jewish Identities,” in Jewish Peoplehood: Change and Challenge, 2009, ed. Menachem Revivi, Ezra Kopelowitz.
Lecture 3
- Jon Entine, “Jews are a Race, Genes Reveal,” The Jewish Daily Forward, May 11, 2012
Lecture 4
- 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.
Lecture 5
- Ezra Kopelowitz, “A Sociologist’s Guide for Building Jewish Peoplehood,” in Jewish Peoplehood: Change and Challenge, 2009, ed. Menachem Revivi, Ezra Kopelowitz.
- 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.
Lecture 6
- Erica Brown, “The Shelf Life of Jewish Peoplehood,” The Jewish Week, January 2011.
- Laura Geller, “A New Understanding of Peoplehood: The Jewish Conversation,” in Jewish Peoplehood: Change and Challenge, 2009, ed. Menachem Revivi, Ezra Kopelowitz.
Lecture 7
- 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.
Lecture 8
- Arnold Eisen, “Rebuilding Jewish Communities,” Sh’ma, November 2000.
Lecture 9
- 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.