This collection of ethnographical and anthropological essays covers a few important subjects related to Jewish life: social absorption and cultural transformation of Middle Eastern Jewish immigrants in Israel, the study of 'Yordim' (Israel immigrants in New York) and the study of gay Jews and their New York community.
Machine generated contents note: Pt. 1 Introduction -- Ch. 1 An Anthropologist's Work between Moving Genres -- Pt. 2 Moroccan Jews in Israel -- Ch. 2 Jewish Existence in a Berber Environment -- Ch. 3 The Emergence of Pseudo-Kin Factions in Immigrant Communities -- Ch. 4 The Regulation of Aggression in Daily Life: Aggressive Relationships among Moroccan Immigrants in Israel -- Ch. 5 The Impact of Migration on the Moroccan Jewish Family in Israel -- Ch. 6 The Decline of Personal Endowment of Atlas Mountains Religious Leaders in Israel -- Ch. 7 Cultural Ethnicity in Israel: The Case of Middle Eastern Jews' Religiosity -- Pt. 3 Israelis in America -- Ch. 8 One-Night Stand Ethnicity: The Malaise of Israeli Americans -- Ch. 9 The People of the Song -- Ch. 10 From the Anthropologist's Point of View: Studying One's Own Tribe -- Ch. 11 In the Company of American Jews: An Israeli Observer in a Lower East Side Synagogue -- Pt. 4 Gay Jews --
Contents note continued: Ch. 12 The Talmud Circle: Identities in Conflict -- Ch. 13 The Women Are Coming: The Transformation of Gender Relationships in a Gay Synagogue -- Ch. 14 When the Curtain Falls on a Fieldwork Project: The Last Chapter of a Gay Synagogue Study -- Ch. 15 Closeted Cosmopolitans: Israeli Gays Between Center and Periphery -- Pt. 5 On Methodology -- Ch. 16 Negotiating Multiple Viewpoints: The Cook, the Native, the Publisher, and the Ethnographic Text -- Ch. 17 What Is There to a Name? The Ethnographer and his Moroccan Subjects in Shokeida.