Judging Jewish Identity in the United States

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  • Judging Jewish Identity in the United States Book Detail

  • Author : Annalise E. Glauz-Todrank
  • Release Date : 2022-09-29
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Genre : Social Science
  • Pages : 261
  • ISBN 13 : 1666923044
  • File Size : 53,53 MB

Judging Jewish Identity in the United States by Annalise E. Glauz-Todrank PDF Summary

Book Description: 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.

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