Below is a listing of supplementary readings for each of the sessions in Jewish Peoplehood: The Meaning of the Collective in Modern Jewish Life – 2011. 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 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)
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: WHO ARE THE PEOPLE IN YOUR PEOPLEHOOD? BELONGING AND BOUNDARIES
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 FOUR: PEOPLEHOOD AND THE CENTRALITY OF PLACE
SESSION FIVE: 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 SIX: THE LANGUAGE OF JEWISH PEOPLEHOOD: EXPRESSIONS OF THE JEWISH COLLECTIVE
SESSION SEVEN: THE “IKKARIM” OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE
