Tulane University Department of Sociology Colloquium Series. The Stuart and Suzanne Grant Center for the American Jewish Experience on this series proudly partnered on this event for the Culture & Heritage Series. Getting Something to Eat in Jackson uses food—what...
Ilana Horwitz discusses her research into the social class dynamics within the American Jewish community, influenced by her personal background as an immigrant from the Soviet Union. She highlights the diversity and economic disparities among American Jews,...
The most recent Pew Research Center’s report on American Judaism, “Jewish Americans in 2020,” found that although American Jews overall are not a highly religious group, they are highly engaged in Jewish cultural activities, including cooking Jewish food, visiting...
When I first began looking at Jewish themes in Caribbean literature some 15 years ago, the scholarly context for this research wasn’t entirely clear to me. A rich historiography of Caribbean Jewry had begun to emerge in the work of scholars such as Natalie Zemon Davis...
Even more than scholars in other disciplines, it seems to me, literary scholars regularly disagree about what, methodologically, they’re up to. Lately some of the debates in the field have been over “distant reading” practices, historicism, and whether what we call...
