Shelly Tenenbaum
Biographic Data
| ID | 3811768 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shelly Tenenbaum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shelly |
| FAMILY NAME | Tenenbaum |
| SIGNATURE | TENENBAUM S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Clark University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Wrestling with Tradition
This article analyzes how congregants in a lay-led Reconstructionist synagogue discursively contest and perform sharedness through active engagement, interpretation, and public disagreements about how to create and sustain Jewish community. I argue that such ‘wrestling with tradition’—that is, questioning, negotiating, and (re)creating traditions in the context of countercultural and eclectic Jewish community—is achieved through collaborative and…
It'S In My Genes
During the 19th and early 20th centuries, an era when immigrant groups were seen as divisible into races with distinct physical and mental traits, American Jews thought of themselves as a race. In the post-Holocaust era, however, racial language was eschewed, and American Jews instead adapted terms such as “community” and “ethnicity.” Our research on unsynagogued Jews and adult children of Jewish intermarriage, however, revealed that many contemp…
Who Rules America
And I Will Dwell in Their Midst
Good or bad for the Jews? moving beyond the continuity debate
Insecure Prosperity
List of IllustrationsList of TablesPreface: What this Book is About, What is Different About It, and Who Helped in its MakingCh. 1In the Shtetls and Out3Ch. 2Fitting Old-Country Resources into a New Place: The Formation of a (Multi)-Ethnic Economic Niche31Ch. 3Insecure Prosperity72Ch. 4Small Town, Slow Pace: Transformations in Jewish Sociocultural Life133Ch. 5In the Middle on the Periphery: Involvement in the Local Society186Ch. 6Through Several …
A Credit to Their Community
A Credit to Their Community
Journal Article A Credit to Their Community: Jewish Loan Societies in the United States, 1880–1943. By Shelly Tenenbaum. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1993. 204 pp. $29.95, ISBN 08143-2287-5.) Get access Andrew R. Heinze Andrew R. Heinze University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 3, December 1994, Pages 1343…
Two Worlds of Judaism
Women of exile
Culture and Context
It'S In My Genes
During the 19th and early 20th centuries, an era when immigrant groups were seen as divisible into races with distinct physical and mental traits, American Jews thought of themselves as a race. In the post-Holocaust era, however, racial language was eschewed, and American Jews instead adapted terms such as “community” and “ethnicity.” Our research on unsynagogued Jews and adult children of Jewish intermarriage, however, revealed that many contemp…
Who Rules America
Women of exile
Culture and Context
Two Worlds of Judaism
A Credit to Their Community
A Credit to Their Community
Journal Article A Credit to Their Community: Jewish Loan Societies in the United States, 1880–1943. By Shelly Tenenbaum. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1993. 204 pp. $29.95, ISBN 08143-2287-5.) Get access Andrew R. Heinze Andrew R. Heinze University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 3, December 1994, Pages 1343…
Insecure Prosperity
List of IllustrationsList of TablesPreface: What this Book is About, What is Different About It, and Who Helped in its MakingCh. 1In the Shtetls and Out3Ch. 2Fitting Old-Country Resources into a New Place: The Formation of a (Multi)-Ethnic Economic Niche31Ch. 3Insecure Prosperity72Ch. 4Small Town, Slow Pace: Transformations in Jewish Sociocultural Life133Ch. 5In the Middle on the Periphery: Involvement in the Local Society186Ch. 6Through Several …
Good or bad for the Jews? moving beyond the continuity debate
And I Will Dwell in Their Midst
Who Rules America
It'S In My Genes
During the 19th and early 20th centuries, an era when immigrant groups were seen as divisible into races with distinct physical and mental traits, American Jews thought of themselves as a race. In the post-Holocaust era, however, racial language was eschewed, and American Jews instead adapted terms such as “community” and “ethnicity.” Our research on unsynagogued Jews and adult children of Jewish intermarriage, however, revealed that many contemp…
Wrestling with Tradition
This article analyzes how congregants in a lay-led Reconstructionist synagogue discursively contest and perform sharedness through active engagement, interpretation, and public disagreements about how to create and sustain Jewish community. I argue that such ‘wrestling with tradition’—that is, questioning, negotiating, and (re)creating traditions in the context of countercultural and eclectic Jewish community—is achieved through collaborative and…
Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (10 works) · Jewish Identity and Society (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · History (6 works) · Judaism (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works)