Year
2023
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Language
English
Pages
25
ISBN
978-1-61249-918-5
Last Update
25-Mar-2026
Keywords
Jewish Studies ; History ; Sociology
An older cousin recently joined me at dinnertime. When the conversation turned to food and desserts, I asked him: “Do you like mandelbrot?” He answered “Of course I do, I’m Jewish.” Indeed, many in my generation see a New York Jewish identity often expressed in food and other preferences as decidedly ethnic, suggesting that this category remains useful. Yet understandings of ethnicity and similar naturalized identities are shifting rapidly. The category has arguably become less salient for younger Jews and perhaps for those whose elders were once thought “unmeltable ethnics.” Moreover, the recognition that the concept ethnicity has tended to...
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