• About the Authors
• Preface
• PART I: THE CORE CONCEPTS FOR UNDERSTANDING JEWISH DIVERSITY
• American Jewry or American Judaism? - Nathan Glazer
• Minimalism or Maximalism: Jewish Survival at the Millennium - Irving Louis Horowitz
• Some Thoughts on the Past, Present and Future of American Jewry - Seymour Martin Lipset
• PART II: UNDERSTANDING JEWISH DIVERSITY THROUGH SOCIOLOGICAL, HISTORICAL, AND PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES
• Postmodernism and the Construction of Ethnocultural Identity: The Jewish-Indian Theory and the Lost Tribes of Israel - Stanford M. Lyman
• The Influence of Austrian Humanism in Theodor Herzl’s Vision of a Jewish State - Mark E. Blum
• Interwar Eastern European Jewish Parties and the Language Issue - Joshua A. Fishman
• International Issues and Domestic Ethnic Relations: African Americans, American Jews, and the Israel-South Africa Debate - Yvonne D. Newsome
• Childbirth Customs in Orthodox Jewish Traditions - Karina Bodo and Nancy Gibson
• The Significance of Jewishness for Wittgenstein’s Philosophy - David G. Stern
• The Economics of Religion, Jewish Survival, and Jewish Attitudes Toward Competition in Torah Education - Dennis W. Carlton and Avi Weiss
• PART III: UNDERSTANDING JEWISH DIVERSITY THROUGH SOCIAL-PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDIES
• Cultural Sensitivity Training in Mental Health: Treatment of Orthodox Jewish Psychiatric Inpatients - Elizabeth Sublette and Brian Trappler
• Understanding and Treating Perfectionism in Religious Adolescents - Ben Sorotzkin
• Of Mongrels and Jews: The Deconstruction of Racialised Identities in White Supremacist Discourse - Abby L. Ferber
• The Matrices of Malevolent Ideologies: Blacks and Jews - Laurence Mordekhai Thomas
• The Public Debate on Life and Death Choices: A Response from A Jewish Hospital Chaplain - Phyllis Toback
• Body Image and Eating Behaviors in Orthodox and Secular Jewish Women - Marci E. Gluck and Allan Geliebter
• Psychosocial Adjustment Among Returnees to Judaism - Brian Trappler, Jean Endicott and Steven Friedman
• PART IV: UNDERSTANDING JEWISH DIVERSITY THROUGH COMMUNITY AND NATIONAL STUDIES
• Local Jewish Population Studies: Still Necessary After All These Years - Ira M. Sheskin
• Jewish Identity in the Sunbelt: The Jewish Population of Orlando, Florida - Ira M. Sheskin
• Working Women/Cloistered Men: A Family Development Approach To Marriage Arrangements Among Ultra-Orthodox Jews -
• Donna Shai
• Examining and Responding to Conflict Between African American And Jewish American Students on a College Campus - Warren J. Blumenfeld and Lisa D. Robinson
• Do They Want Their Children to Be Like Them?: Parental Heritage and Jewish Identity - Arnold A. Lasker and Judith N. Lasker
• Jewish and Arab Perceptions of Civil Rights in Israel - Rita J. Simon, Jean Landis and Menachem Amir
• Assessing African-American and Jewish Intergroup Perceptions and Attitudes - Martin S. Fiebert, Lara Horgan and Edger Peralta
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