Traditionalist Jews and the Question of Whiteness

IF 0.5 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

JEWISH SOCIAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI:10.2979/jss.2023.a910387

Jonathan Boyarin

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Abstract

Abstract: This article has two main purposes. First, it aims to unpack the question "Are Jews white?" by insisting that the assignment of even ambiguous racial identities to "Jews" as an undifferentiated collective is a categorical mistake. It argues instead for a highly contextualized approach to the racialization of certain Jews or groups of Jews in certain times and places for certain purposes and from certain perspectives—which need not imply any lessening of the import of such racialization. Second, and more specifically, it aims to provoke a careful discussion of the racialization of traditionalist Jews in the particular context of growing and recently established residential enclaves in the suburbs of New York City, and suggests that legal or scholarly understanding of their difference as primarily "religious" is also mistaken.

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传统犹太人与白人问题

摘要:本文主要有两个目的。首先，它的目的是通过坚持将甚至模棱两可的种族身份分配给“犹太人”作为一个无差别的集体是一个绝对的错误，来解开“犹太人是白人吗?”这个问题。相反，它主张对某些犹太人或犹太人群体在某些时间和地点出于某些目的、从某些角度进行种族化的高度情境化的方法——这并不意味着对这种种族化的重要性有任何削弱。其次，更具体地说，它的目的是在纽约市郊区不断增长和最近建立的住宅飞地的特殊背景下，引发对传统主义犹太人种族化的仔细讨论，并表明法律或学术将他们的差异主要理解为“宗教”也是错误的。

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JEWISH SOCIAL STUDIES HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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