Jewish Peoplehood : An American Innovation / Noam Pianko.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title -- Series Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Deceptively Simple Key Word -- 1 Terms of Debate. Jewish Nationhood and American Peoplehood -- What Is a Nation? Peoplehood's European Precursors -- The Emergence of Peoplehood -- 1948, Israel, and a Crisis of Terminology -- From Critique to Code Word -- Into the American Mainstream -- 2 State of the Question. Enduring Entity or Constructed Community -- Unity, Solidarity, Statehood -- Nationalism, Globalization, and the Limits of Peoplehood -- Race, Ethnicity, and Peoplehood Studies -- Jewish Studies and Jewish Peoplehood -- 3 In a New Key. Can Peoplehood Speak to a Global Era? -- Jewish. From Periphery to Center, from Describing to Defining -- Neighborhood. From National to Local, from Core to Cohort -- Project. From Being to Doing, from Essence to Action -- Jewishhood Project(s) -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author.

Jewish peoplehood has eclipsed religion--as well as ethnicity and nationality--as the prevailing definition of what it means to be a Jew. In Jewish Peoplehood, Noam Pianko examines the history, the current significance, and the future relevance of a term that assumes an increasingly important position in American Jewish and Israeli life.

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