Judging Jewish Identity in the United States

Annalise E. Glauz-Todrank (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

260 Seiten

2024
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-2305-6 (ISBN)

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This book focuses on the first Supreme Court case to grant Jewish Americans race-based civil rights and highlights the complexity of White-perceived Jewish racialization in the United States. In 1982, vandals defaced Shaare Tefila Congregation in Silver Spring, Maryland, with Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi images and slogans. Because no religion-based statutes applied to the desecration, the synagogue’s lawyers were required to utilize race-based statutes. In her close study of what became the 1987 case Shaare Tefila Congregation v. Cobb, Annalise Glauz-Todrank offers a nuanced analysis of the ways in which the members of the congregation, their lawyers, and the vandals’ lawyers used the concepts of race and religion to argue their case. Judging Jewish Identity in the United States understands “race” and “religion” as White, Christian categories and illustrates how they have been accepted and internalized in the American environment. Glauz-Todrank examines how the judges went through a process of constructing the legal meaning of Jewish identity. Likewise, she narrates how the congregants responded to the vandalism, were relieved by the cleanup day that incorporated their neighbors, and pursued the case as “religious” Jewish Americans.

Annalise E. Glauz-Todrank is assistant professor in the Department for the Study of Religions at Wake Forest University.

Erscheinungsdatum	19.01.2024
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 232 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-6669-2305-2 / 1666923052
ISBN-13	978-1-6669-2305-6 / 9781666923056
Zustand	Neuware