About the Authors x
Publisher’s Preface xiii

Part I: The Core Concepts for
Understanding Jewish Diversity

Nathan Glazer
American Jewry or American Judaism? 1

Irving Louis Horowitz
Minimalism or Maximalism: Jewish Survival at the Millennium 12

Seymour Martin Lipset
Some Thoughts on the Past, Present and Future of American Jewry 28

Part II: Understanding Jewish Diversity Through Sociological, Historical, and Philosophical Studies

Stanford M. Lyman
Postmodernism and the Construction of Ethnocultural Identity:
The Jewish-Indian Theory and the Lost Tribes of Israel 38

Mark E. Blum
The Influence of Austrian Humanism in Theodor Herzl’s Vision of a Jewish State 58

Joshua A. Fishman
Interwar Eastern European Jewish Parties and the Language Issue 80

Yvonne D. Newsome
International Issues and Domestic Ethnic Relations:
African Americans, American Jews, and the Israel-South Africa Debate 95

Karina Bodo and Nancy Gibson
Childbirth Customs in Orthodox Jewish Traditions 125

David G. Stern
The Significance of Jewishness for Wittgenstein’s Philosophy 132

Dennis W. Carlton and Avi Weiss
The Economics of Religion, Jewish Survival, and Jewish Attitudes Toward Competition in Torah Education 152

Part III: Understanding Jewish Diversity Through
Social-Psychological and Psychological Studies

Elizabeth Sublette and Brian Trappler
Cultural Sensitivity Training in Mental Health:
Treatment of Orthodox Jewish Psychiatric Inpatients 174

Ben Sorotzkin
Understanding and Treating Perfectionism in Religious Adolescents 191

Abby L. Ferber
Of Mongrels and Jews:
The Deconstruction of Racialised Identities in White Supremacist Discourse 208

Laurence Mordekhai Thomas
The Matrices of Malevolent Ideologies: Blacks and Jews 227

Phyllis Toback
The Public Debate on Life and Death Choices:
A Response from A Jewish Hospital Chaplain 257

Marci E. Gluck and Allan Geliebter
Body Image and Eating Behaviors in
Orthodox and Secular Jewish Women 268

Brian Trappler, Jean Endicott and Steven Friedman
Psychosocial Adjustment Among Returnees to Judaism 278

Part IV: Understanding Jewish Diversity Through
Community and National Studies

Ira M. Sheskin
Local Jewish Population Studies:
Still Necessary After All These Years 288

Ira M. Sheskin
Jewish Identity in the Sunbelt:
The Jewish Population of Orlando, Florida 291

Donna Shai
Working Women/Cloistered Men: A Family Development Approach To Marriage Arrangements Among Ultra-Orthodox Jews 303

Warren J. Blumenfeld and Lisa D. Robinson
Examining and Responding to Conflict Between African American And Jewish American Students on a College Campus 324

Arnold A. Lasker and Judith N. Lasker
Do They Want Their Children to Be Like Them?:
Parental Heritage and Jewish Identity 354

Rita J. Simon, Jean Landis and Menachem Amir
Jewish and Arab Perceptions of Civil Rights in Israel 370

Martin S. Fiebert, Lara Horgan and Edger Peralta
Assessing African-American and Jewish Intergroup Perceptions and Attitudes 389

Permissions 396