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Stepping into Zion - Hatzaad Harishon, Black Jews, and the Remaking of Jewish Identity (Hardcover, 4th)
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Stepping into Zion - Hatzaad Harishon, Black Jews, and the Remaking of Jewish Identity (Hardcover, 4th)
Series: Rhetoric Culture and Social Critique
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By studying the multiracial Jewish organization Hatzaad Harishon,
Janice W. Fernheimer's Stepping into Zion considers the question
Who is a Jew?-- a critical rhetorical issue with far-reaching
consequences for Jews and non-Jews alike.
Hatzaad Harishon (The First Step) was a New York-based, multiracial
Jewish organization that worked to increase recognition and
legitimacy of black Jews in the sixties and seventies. In Stepping
into Zion, Janice W. Fernheimer examines the history and archives
of Hatzaad Harishon to illuminate the definition and borders of
Jewish identity, which have
critical relevance to Jews of all traditions as well as to
non-Jews.
Fernheimer focuses on a period when white Jewish identity was in
flux and deeply influenced by the Civil Rights and Black Power
movements. In 1964, white and black Jews formed Hatzaad Harishon to
foster interaction and unity between black and white Jewish
communities. They raised the question of who or what constitutes
Jewishness or Jewish identity, and in searching for an answer
succeeded--both historically and rhetorically--in gaining increased
recognition for black Jews. Fernheimer traces how members of
Hatzaad Harishon, who did not share the same set of definitions,
were able to create common ground in a process she terms
interruptive invention.
Through insightful interpretation of Hatzaad Harishon's archival
materials, Fernheimer chronicles the group's successes and failures
within the larger rhetorical history of conflicts that emerge when
cultural identities shift or expand. Stepping into Zion offers
interruptive invention as a framework for understanding and
changing certain dominant discourses about racial and religious
identity, allowing those who may lack institutional power or
authority to begin to claim it.
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