Jewries at the Frontier

Reviews / Votes

"This rich and engaging anthology offers 16 essays exploring the history, culture, and challenges that have confronted an array of Jewish communities. Unique and varied writings about Jews of Alaska, South Africa, Texas, and Australia ... document the roots, flexibility, vitality, and diversity of the Jewish people... Speaks with precision, clarity, and grace." -- Rabbi Dennis S. Ross, MultiCultural Review "Demonstrates the insights social sciences can offer those interested in contemporary Jewish identity and life. The book is very carefully edited, extremely readable, and likely to be popular with students. The range and sophistication of the articles make it useful both for Judaica collections as well as general ones." -- Shaul Stampfer, Religious Studies Review "An extraordinarily sophisticated analytical collection about Jews on a variety of frontiers: linguistic, geographical, intellectual, literary, and cultural." -- Leonard Dinnerstein, Journal of the West "Compelling reading. It documents in a number of well-written essays the various problems that Jews confront and are confronted by when they meet the inhabitants of a new land." -- Lionel Kopelowitz, Jewish ReviewADVANCE PRAISE "This collection adds much-needed sophistication to Jewish studies and provides a superb perspective onto margins, frontiers, and identity formations."-Peter Fritzsche, author of Germans into Nazis