Writing Jewish Culture

“Looks at the ethnographic issues while defining Jewishness in a very fresh, sophisticated way . . . very timely and important.” — Washington Book Review Focusing on Eastern and Central Europe before WWII, this collection explores various genres of “ethnoliterature” across temporal, geographical, and ideological borders as sites of Jewish identity formation and dissemination. Challenging the assumption of cultural uniformity among Ashkenazi Jews, the contributors consider how ethn