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Québec’s Sephardic Jews and the Transnational Field of Francophone Jewry
This article deals with the position occupied by Québec’s Sephardic community within the transnational francophone Jewish field. On the one hand, it...
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Liberal Grammar and the Construction of American Jewish Identity
Both scholars of American Jewry and advocates working in American Jewish communities have linked a moral commitment to greater inclusion of...
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Moroccan Torah Scrolls: Theorizing a Diasporic Afterlife
Torah scrolls are more than ritual objects; when used in a congregation, they take on semi-human characteristics and are given special agency. For...
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Crypto-Jews, Sephardim, Ashkenazim, and Refugees from Nazi Europe in Early Twentieth-Century Portugal: Together and Apart
This paper examines the complex Jewish reality in Portugal in the first half of the twentieth century. Alongside the old Sephardic community that...
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The Sephardim of North Morocco, Zionism and Illegal Emigration to Israel Through the Spanish Cities of Ceuta and Melilla
This text looks at the fluid intersection in the emergence and development of Zionism and the later Zionist-promoted emigration of Moroccan Jews to...
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On Belonging and Other Dreams. The Ambiguous Positions of the Jews in “Spanish Morocco”
This paper presents an ethnographic study of autobiographical narratives about Jewish life during the Spanish Protectorate in Morocco (1912–1956)....
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Recovering Jewish Identity in Contemporary Portugal
Portugal’s relation to its Jewish heritage is complex and marked by fears and distrust due to centuries of inquisition and another half century of...
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Personal Reflection: Am I a Jew of Color? Negotiating Competing Definitions of JOC
In this personal reflection, the author interrogates the question of whether she is a Jew of Color. She explores the lack of consensus about clear...
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De-assimilation Without Assimilation? The Continuities in the Polish Secular Model of Jewishness
This article critically examines Krajewski’s (in this issue of Contemp Jewry) argument about the assimilation and subsequent de-assimilation of the...
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The Non-religious Component of the “Jewish Enterprise”
The “Jewish Enterprise” (Mordecai Kaplan’s term) consists of all attitudes and actions, not just religious, which are held or performed by people who...
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On Becoming Israeli: Out of the French Ethnic Bubbles
This study focuses on a purposive sample of 30 immigrants from France, students at the Technion Institute of Technology, and examines the following...
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Jewlia Eisenberg and Queer Piyut
This memorial to composer and Charming Hostess band founder Jewlia Eisenberg explores the queer erotics of “Agadelkha,” a musical setting of a piyut...
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The Jewish Sports in Shanghai During the Late Qing Dynasty and the Early Republic of China
In the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, Shanghai was the largest Jewish settlement in China, consisting mainly of Sephardic Jews,...
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Religion and State in Jewish Burial in Israel: The Establishment and Administration of Har HaMenuhot in Jerusalem, 1949–1967
Har HaMenuhot, the cemetery in western Jerusalem, was founded in 1949, but its first two decades were rife with disagreement and neglect. In the...
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Embodying and Performing Diversity Through Senses
This chapter illustrates the ways in which collective embodiment of the island through a diversity of sensorial pleasures bond together the islanders...