Crossing, Dwelling, and A Wandering Jew

IN HIS BOLD NEW BOOK, Crossing and Dwelling, Thomas Tweed attempts the impossible: to construct a theory of religion that not only explains his own data in working with Cuban immigrant communities in Miami, but will also ideally be of use to those working with other data in different geographical and temporal contexts. Although he certainly does an excellent job with the former, this presentation will test the limits of the latter in two overlapping ways. First, I wish to draw attention to Tweed's use and presentation of data; secondly, I wish to counter his encyclopaedism with a specific test case of another diaspora religion, in fact probably the diaspora religion par excellence, that of Judaism. Jews, both individually and collectively, have been “crossing” and “dwelling”—not only between erez Israel and the diaspora, but also between diasporas—for the past two millennia. Yet, I want to suggest that perhaps conceptual terms such as “crossings” and “dwellings” are not helpful in understanding the dynamics of Judaism in any real sense. In what follows I will, in part, use as data my local minyan.

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