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Book SynopsisJewish-American Identity and Critical Intercultural Communication: Never Forget, Tikkun Olam, and Kindness to Strangers explores what it means to be Jewish on a personal, sociocultural, and global-political level. This book employs 50+ interviews with diverse Jewish voices to provide a history of Jewish migration to the US and to privilege voices that are not necessarily White and Eastern European/Ashkenazic. Sobré argues for a more inclusive form of intercultural theorizing that favors intersectionality and allyship over oppression Olympics (stereotypes between members of different nondominant groups) and colorism (within nondominant group discrimination). Such siloing of differences, and further competing about whose differences are the most egregious, minimizes critical intercultural coalition opportunities allowing for such groups as those who gave power to Trump and Netanyahu to connect while inclusive progressives engage in in-fighting and separatism. The author calls for transversal dialogic politics, racially and historically accurate school curriculum, intersectionality and more inclusive intercultural communication scholarship and practice as various means of working together against white nationalism and white supremacy in the US and the world. Scholars of religious studies, cultural anthropology, and intercultural communication will find this book of particular interest.
Table of ContentsTable Of Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Point of the Exercise
Section I: Jews and Jewish Life in US America
Chapter 1: Definitions, History and Demographics of Jewish Americans
Chapter 2: Rootless Cosmopolitans Find Roots: Socioeconomics, Education and Social Justice of Jewish Life in US America
Chapter 3: Antisemitism, Zionism, Israel, and Acceptance: Jews in the US American 20th Century Through Today
Section II: Theoretical Framework for the Study
Chapter 4: Critical Intercultural Communication and Jewish American Life – A Framework for Analysis and Critique
Chapter 5: Never Forget, Scattered People and Israel: Jews within a Postcolonial Context
Section III: US American Jewish Voices and the Stories of Jewish American Identity
Chapter 6: Laying the Groundwork for the Study
Chapter 7: A Mosaic of Jewish Identity
Chapter 8: Ashkenormativity and Critical Intercultural Communication
Chapter 9: Strange Bedfellows: US American Jews and Israel
Chapter 10: Never Forget and Never Again
Glossary of Hebrew and Yiddish Terms
Appendices
References
About the Author
