Going to the people: Jews and the ethnographic impulse
Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. History of the Ethnographic Impulse -- 1. Thrice Born -- or, Between Two Worlds: Reflexivity and Performance in An-sky's Jewish Ethnographic Expedition and Beyond -- 2. Between Scientific and Political: Jewish Scholars and Russian-Jewish Physical Anthropology in the Fin-de-Siècle Russian Empire -- 3. "To Study Our Past, Make Sense of Our Present and Develop Our National Consciousness": Lev Shternberg's Comprehensive Program for Jewish Ethnography in the USSR -- 4. "What Should We Collect?": Ethnography, Local Studies, and the Formation of a Belorussian Jewish Identity -- 5. Yiddish Folklore and Soviet Ideology during the 1930s -- 6. After An-sky: I.M. Pul'ner and the Jewish Section of the State Museum of Ethnography in Leningrad -- 7. "Sacred Collection Work": The Relationship between YIVO and Its Zamlers -- 8. The Last Zamlers: Avrom Sutzkever and Shmerke Kaczerginski in Vilna, 1944-1945 -- Part II. Findings from the Field -- 9. Ethnography and Folklore among Polish Jews in Israel: Immigration and Integration -- 10. The Use of Hebrew and Yiddish in the Rituals of Contemporary Jewry of Bukovina and Bessarabia -- 11. Food and Faith in the Soviet Shtetl -- 12. Undzer Rebenyu: Religion, Memory, and Identity in Postwar Moldova -- Part III. Reflections on the Ethnographic Impulse -- 13. Ex-Soviet Jews: Collective Autoethnography -- 14. Family Pictures at an Exhibition: History, Autobiography, and the Museum Exhibit on Jewish Łódź "In Mrs. Goldberg's Kitchen" -- 15. Seamed Stockings and Ponytails: Conducting Ethnographic Fieldwork in a Contemporary Hasidic Community -- Part IV. By Way of Conclusion -- 16. From Function to Frame: The Evolving Conceptualization of Jewish Folklore Studies -- List of Contributors -- Index.