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Judging Jewish Identity in the United States
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2022
Summary
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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Edition
1/2022
Copyright Year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-2303-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-2304-9
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
248
Product Type
Monograph
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 22
“It Was a Crime against the Community” No access Pages 23 - 58
Preparing to Take Legal Action No access Pages 59 - 88
Judging Religion and Race in the Federal District Court of Maryland and the Fourth Circuit Cour No access Pages 89 - 128
Judging Religion and Race in the Supreme Court No access Pages 129 - 176
The Shaare Tefila Congregation after the Supreme Court Decision No access Pages 177 - 202
