A Y Kelman
Biographic Data
| ID | 17074 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Y Kelman |
| GIVEN NAMES | A Y |
| FAMILY NAME | Kelman |
| SIGNATURE | KELMAN A Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1000-9688 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Toward a Sociology of Religious Knowledge
This article asks: What might happen to our understanding of religions if we approached them as social forms that were principally organized around claims about knowledge rather than around beliefs or practices. In this article, we trace a constellation of concerns across scholarship in religious studies that reveals an existing preoccupation with knowledge claims within and about religions that undergird other dimensions of religious life. Traci…
Bridging Sacred Tradition and Secular Aspiration: Cultural Capital in Bar/Bat Mitzvah Rituals
This study examines how a Jewish coming-of-age ritual—the bar/bat mitzvah—serves as a point of intersection between sacred practices and secular aspirations. Drawing on a multi-sited ethnography of seven families from non-Orthodox congregations in Silicon Valley, the research highlights how the bar/bat mitzvah serves both as a religious milestone and as a structured rehearsal for adulthood. Through participant observation, in-depth interviews, an…
Counting on Whiteness: Religion, race, ethnicity, and the politics of Jewish demography
American Jews have long been an anomaly for scholars concerned with understanding how they fit into extant social scientific or historical categories. Sometimes they seem best described as an ethnic group, other times as a religious one. This ambiguity has also vexed Jewish communal leaders whose desire to comprehend their communities has largely been underwritten by their intention to protect it. This intersection of sociological methods and sch…
The evolution of data ethics in clinical research and drug development
We are in an era of tremendous progress for leveraging large clinical datasets, real-world data, genomics, imaging, and advanced analytics to improve drug development, reduce development timelines, and address unmet medical needs. Data is being used in new ways to develop medicines and improve healthcare. A prevalent perspective is that all available medical data, assuming patient's rights to privacy and data protections are in place, should be u…
From Aesthetics to Experience: How Changing Conceptions of Prayer Changed the Sound of Jewish Worship
This article tracks changes in conceptions of American Jewish congregational prayer music during the second half of the twentieth century, paying specific attention to the late 1960s and early 1970s. During those years, more than fifty albums of new American Jewish synagogue music were released. These drew on the sounds of folk and rock music, and they represented a shift from the sounds of classical cantorial synagogue music. These changes have …
Framing Conflict: Why American Congregations Cannot Not Talk about Israel
Forum: The Religious Situation, 1968 (Part 1)
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Traditional Judaism: The Conceptualization of Jewishness in the Lives of American Jewish Post-Boomers
Post-boomer American Jews pose many challenges to established frameworks for understanding the organization of the American Jewish community. In an analysis of 58 in-depth interviews with post-boomer American Jews, we found a preference for people who described themselves as not religious, and we found a near-total absence of the language of ethnicity. Instead, interviewees volunteered tradition as a replacement for both and as part of a rational…
The Social Self: Toward the Study of Jewish Lives in the Twenty-first Century
Encountering the past in the present: An exploratory study of educational heritage tourism
Golem: Modern Wars and Their Monsters
Maya Barzilai's Golem examines the figure of the golem as a manifestation of a concern for wars and warfare over the course of the twentieth century. Barzilai has a keen eye for spotting golems everywhere, and she cannily identifies the exciting tension that has maintained a fascination in the golem as both character and, more importantly, as metaphor. Barzilai understands golems as “monstrous metaphors” for war and violence, and she focuses on c…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Jewish Education
Kim, Helen Kiyong and Noah Samuel Leavitt. JewAsian: Race, Religion, and Identity for America’s Newest Jews
Imperiled Promise: The State of History in the National Park Service
Any person who spends enough time talking to National Park Service (nps) historians will eventually hear a version of this story: In the late 1960s nps director George Hartzog visited one of the park units under his supervision. Instead of interpreting the park's contents for Hartzog or catering to the director's whims, the historian on duty continued attending to his own research. Hartzog left the unit in a huff, taking not just pictures and lea…
The Dismal Jewish Social Science
The End of Identity
A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek
In the early morning of November 29, 1864, with the fate of the Union still uncertain, part of the First Colorado and nearly all of the Third Colorado volunteer regiments, commanded by Colonel John Chivington, surprised hundreds of Cheyenne and Arapaho people camped on the banks of Sand Creek in southeastern Colorado Territory. More than 150 Native Americans were slaughtered, the vast majority of them women, children, and the elderly, making it o…
Thinking About Distancing from Israel
Are non-Orthodox American Jews growing more distant from Israel? That question indeed is the central issue in this exchange of views between our friends and colleagues-Ted Sasson, Charles Kadushin, and Len Saxe-and ourselves. Their scholarly contribution above presents their response to their reading of our Beyond Distancing (Cohen and Kelman 2007). In that report, one that we prepared for the larger lay public rather than an academic audience, w…
Distancing is Closer than Ever
A concluding word on the exchange on the Distancing Hypothesis
Rethinking the Soundscape: A Critical Genealogy of a Key Term in Sound Studies
This article takes critical issue with the well-circulated but often misapplied term "soundscape." Coined by Canadian composer Murray Schafer in his book "The Soundscape," the term has become one of the keywords of sound studies, but in its wide circulation it has become disconnected from its original scholarly concept and used broadly to apply to nearly any sonic phenomenon. Scholars either misapply it or redefine it to suit their needs. This ar…
Even Paranoids Have Enemies: Rumors of Levee Sabotage in New Orleans's Lower 9th Ward
This article explores the origin and implications of the rumor that government authorities intentionally destroyed the levee fronting New Orleans's lower 9th Ward during Hurricane Katrina. The author argues that these rumors should not be dismissed as fanciful conspiracy theories, but must instead be placed in the context of New Orleans's environmental history. That history includes numerous episodes in which commercial elites colluded with elect…
Jewish-American History on the Web, http: Www.jewish-history.com. Created and maintained by Leah M. Berkowitz and the Jewish-American History Documentation Foundation. Reviewed Feb. 6-12, 2008
This Web site is a bit like my grandmother's bookshelf: it is strange and idiosyncratic and peculiar, and it presents the valuable and the questionable, the antique and the facsimile with equal attention. This is its strength and its weakness. Jewish-American History on the Web is the creation of Leah M. Berkowitz, a computer programmer and American Jewish history buff who has devoted a great deal of time and energy to its construction and mainte…
Nature Bats Last: Some Recent Works on Technology and Urban Disaster
Since the destruction in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina last August/September, I have pondered the strained links among cities, technologies, and catastrophes. In this I am probably like millions of other people. The only difference is that a few years ago I wrote a history of New Orleans's relationship with the Mississippi. So, when Katrina made landfall, some people wanted to hear my thoughts. Despite being wrong—repeatedly—I became an…
A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans
A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans
Journal Article A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans Get access A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans. By Kelman Ari. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xiii + 283 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.) Carl Abbott Carl Abbott Portland State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 34, Issue…
Rethinking the Soundscape: A Critical Genealogy of a Key Term in Sound Studies
This article takes critical issue with the well-circulated but often misapplied term "soundscape." Coined by Canadian composer Murray Schafer in his book "The Soundscape," the term has become one of the keywords of sound studies, but in its wide circulation it has become disconnected from its original scholarly concept and used broadly to apply to nearly any sonic phenomenon. Scholars either misapply it or redefine it to suit their needs. This ar…
Counting on Whiteness: Religion, race, ethnicity, and the politics of Jewish demography
American Jews have long been an anomaly for scholars concerned with understanding how they fit into extant social scientific or historical categories. Sometimes they seem best described as an ethnic group, other times as a religious one. This ambiguity has also vexed Jewish communal leaders whose desire to comprehend their communities has largely been underwritten by their intention to protect it. This intersection of sociological methods and sch…
Encountering the past in the present: An exploratory study of educational heritage tourism
Imperiled Promise: The State of History in the National Park Service
Any person who spends enough time talking to National Park Service (nps) historians will eventually hear a version of this story: In the late 1960s nps director George Hartzog visited one of the park units under his supervision. Instead of interpreting the park's contents for Hartzog or catering to the director's whims, the historian on duty continued attending to his own research. Hartzog left the unit in a huff, taking not just pictures and lea…
A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek
In the early morning of November 29, 1864, with the fate of the Union still uncertain, part of the First Colorado and nearly all of the Third Colorado volunteer regiments, commanded by Colonel John Chivington, surprised hundreds of Cheyenne and Arapaho people camped on the banks of Sand Creek in southeastern Colorado Territory. More than 150 Native Americans were slaughtered, the vast majority of them women, children, and the elderly, making it o…
Nature Bats Last: Some Recent Works on Technology and Urban Disaster
Since the destruction in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina last August/September, I have pondered the strained links among cities, technologies, and catastrophes. In this I am probably like millions of other people. The only difference is that a few years ago I wrote a history of New Orleans's relationship with the Mississippi. So, when Katrina made landfall, some people wanted to hear my thoughts. Despite being wrong—repeatedly—I became an…
A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans
Journal Article A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans Get access A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans. By Kelman Ari. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xiii + 283 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.) Carl Abbott Carl Abbott Portland State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 34, Issue…
A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans
Nature Bats Last: Some Recent Works on Technology and Urban Disaster
Since the destruction in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina last August/September, I have pondered the strained links among cities, technologies, and catastrophes. In this I am probably like millions of other people. The only difference is that a few years ago I wrote a history of New Orleans's relationship with the Mississippi. So, when Katrina made landfall, some people wanted to hear my thoughts. Despite being wrong—repeatedly—I became an…
Jewish-American History on the Web, http: Www.jewish-history.com. Created and maintained by Leah M. Berkowitz and the Jewish-American History Documentation Foundation. Reviewed Feb. 6-12, 2008
This Web site is a bit like my grandmother's bookshelf: it is strange and idiosyncratic and peculiar, and it presents the valuable and the questionable, the antique and the facsimile with equal attention. This is its strength and its weakness. Jewish-American History on the Web is the creation of Leah M. Berkowitz, a computer programmer and American Jewish history buff who has devoted a great deal of time and energy to its construction and mainte…
Even Paranoids Have Enemies: Rumors of Levee Sabotage in New Orleans's Lower 9th Ward
This article explores the origin and implications of the rumor that government authorities intentionally destroyed the levee fronting New Orleans's lower 9th Ward during Hurricane Katrina. The author argues that these rumors should not be dismissed as fanciful conspiracy theories, but must instead be placed in the context of New Orleans's environmental history. That history includes numerous episodes in which commercial elites colluded with elect…
Thinking About Distancing from Israel
Are non-Orthodox American Jews growing more distant from Israel? That question indeed is the central issue in this exchange of views between our friends and colleagues-Ted Sasson, Charles Kadushin, and Len Saxe-and ourselves. Their scholarly contribution above presents their response to their reading of our Beyond Distancing (Cohen and Kelman 2007). In that report, one that we prepared for the larger lay public rather than an academic audience, w…
Distancing is Closer than Ever
A concluding word on the exchange on the Distancing Hypothesis
Rethinking the Soundscape: A Critical Genealogy of a Key Term in Sound Studies
This article takes critical issue with the well-circulated but often misapplied term "soundscape." Coined by Canadian composer Murray Schafer in his book "The Soundscape," the term has become one of the keywords of sound studies, but in its wide circulation it has become disconnected from its original scholarly concept and used broadly to apply to nearly any sonic phenomenon. Scholars either misapply it or redefine it to suit their needs. This ar…
The Dismal Jewish Social Science
The End of Identity
A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek
In the early morning of November 29, 1864, with the fate of the Union still uncertain, part of the First Colorado and nearly all of the Third Colorado volunteer regiments, commanded by Colonel John Chivington, surprised hundreds of Cheyenne and Arapaho people camped on the banks of Sand Creek in southeastern Colorado Territory. More than 150 Native Americans were slaughtered, the vast majority of them women, children, and the elderly, making it o…
Imperiled Promise: The State of History in the National Park Service
Any person who spends enough time talking to National Park Service (nps) historians will eventually hear a version of this story: In the late 1960s nps director George Hartzog visited one of the park units under his supervision. Instead of interpreting the park's contents for Hartzog or catering to the director's whims, the historian on duty continued attending to his own research. Hartzog left the unit in a huff, taking not just pictures and lea…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Jewish Education
Kim, Helen Kiyong and Noah Samuel Leavitt. JewAsian: Race, Religion, and Identity for America’s Newest Jews
Traditional Judaism: The Conceptualization of Jewishness in the Lives of American Jewish Post-Boomers
Post-boomer American Jews pose many challenges to established frameworks for understanding the organization of the American Jewish community. In an analysis of 58 in-depth interviews with post-boomer American Jews, we found a preference for people who described themselves as not religious, and we found a near-total absence of the language of ethnicity. Instead, interviewees volunteered tradition as a replacement for both and as part of a rational…
The Social Self: Toward the Study of Jewish Lives in the Twenty-first Century
Encountering the past in the present: An exploratory study of educational heritage tourism
Golem: Modern Wars and Their Monsters
Maya Barzilai's Golem examines the figure of the golem as a manifestation of a concern for wars and warfare over the course of the twentieth century. Barzilai has a keen eye for spotting golems everywhere, and she cannily identifies the exciting tension that has maintained a fascination in the golem as both character and, more importantly, as metaphor. Barzilai understands golems as “monstrous metaphors” for war and violence, and she focuses on c…
Framing Conflict: Why American Congregations Cannot Not Talk about Israel
Forum: The Religious Situation, 1968 (Part 1)
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The evolution of data ethics in clinical research and drug development
We are in an era of tremendous progress for leveraging large clinical datasets, real-world data, genomics, imaging, and advanced analytics to improve drug development, reduce development timelines, and address unmet medical needs. Data is being used in new ways to develop medicines and improve healthcare. A prevalent perspective is that all available medical data, assuming patient's rights to privacy and data protections are in place, should be u…
From Aesthetics to Experience: How Changing Conceptions of Prayer Changed the Sound of Jewish Worship
This article tracks changes in conceptions of American Jewish congregational prayer music during the second half of the twentieth century, paying specific attention to the late 1960s and early 1970s. During those years, more than fifty albums of new American Jewish synagogue music were released. These drew on the sounds of folk and rock music, and they represented a shift from the sounds of classical cantorial synagogue music. These changes have …
Counting on Whiteness: Religion, race, ethnicity, and the politics of Jewish demography
American Jews have long been an anomaly for scholars concerned with understanding how they fit into extant social scientific or historical categories. Sometimes they seem best described as an ethnic group, other times as a religious one. This ambiguity has also vexed Jewish communal leaders whose desire to comprehend their communities has largely been underwritten by their intention to protect it. This intersection of sociological methods and sch…
Toward a Sociology of Religious Knowledge
This article asks: What might happen to our understanding of religions if we approached them as social forms that were principally organized around claims about knowledge rather than around beliefs or practices. In this article, we trace a constellation of concerns across scholarship in religious studies that reveals an existing preoccupation with knowledge claims within and about religions that undergird other dimensions of religious life. Traci…
Bridging Sacred Tradition and Secular Aspiration: Cultural Capital in Bar/Bat Mitzvah Rituals
This study examines how a Jewish coming-of-age ritual—the bar/bat mitzvah—serves as a point of intersection between sacred practices and secular aspirations. Drawing on a multi-sited ethnography of seven families from non-Orthodox congregations in Silicon Valley, the research highlights how the bar/bat mitzvah serves both as a religious milestone and as a structured rehearsal for adulthood. Through participant observation, in-depth interviews, an…
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